duranie
Well-Known Member
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Pump
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- Winter!
Re: Would you prefer to be on insulin injections or on a pum
Pumps aren't given out easily - there are conditions which have to be met. I also understand that even if you were to buy the pump yourself, well, it's not quite that easy as the cost of the equipment that goes with them is so much - around £2,500 a year, that you will struggle to get them prescribed, plus you need an endo/DSN/pump specialist onside..
I have been recommended for a pump for 6 months and am still waiting for the local PCT to approve it. I struggle to get my a1c under 8, have peripheral neuropathy and autonomic neuropathy (the reason for the recommendation)...I am also training to become a nurse and ultimately it was this - the fact that shifts are causing me to go low so often that I've started to lose hype awareness...
Pumps aren't given out easily - there are conditions which have to be met. I also understand that even if you were to buy the pump yourself, well, it's not quite that easy as the cost of the equipment that goes with them is so much - around £2,500 a year, that you will struggle to get them prescribed, plus you need an endo/DSN/pump specialist onside..
I have been recommended for a pump for 6 months and am still waiting for the local PCT to approve it. I struggle to get my a1c under 8, have peripheral neuropathy and autonomic neuropathy (the reason for the recommendation)...I am also training to become a nurse and ultimately it was this - the fact that shifts are causing me to go low so often that I've started to lose hype awareness...