lisamariebrankin said:i think i have completely underestimated how much there is to learn
Same as before Ava was diagnosed, the lack of knowledge about diabetes in general.
thanks x
Best thing I think is to go 'paddling with the pump in shallow water' when you first start using it and just keep to using the standard bolus for most meals and just get a feel of how the insulin in the pump affects bg levels after food is eaten. Try not to jump from eating std carb that is digested within 2hrs to carb that is digested more slowly until you are confident in making changes to the settings you want,
A definate must have regardless of what pump you get is blood glucose testing so lots of tests unfortunately need to be done to make sure that the settings on the pump are giving the control that you want............
The Accu chek Combo pump is a good pump to have because of the bluetooth bg meter but unfortunately the Aviva test strips for the meter are not cheap and they do demand a decent drop of blood so that is my gripe with the pump as sore fingertips happen over time. The Medtronic Veo (not sure about Animas) will allow people to use whatever bg meter they like and just manually enter the bg reading into the bolus wizard. With so many GPs trying their hardest to restrict the amount of bg teststrips they prescribe because of cost it makes sense to way up the pros and cons of using different pumps so that bg teststrips wont be restricted...