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customer service is great personally i am not a fan of the pump. i don't like it at all. it's big, heavy and scratches really easily (sticks out so much it's easy to scrape against a wall i have found!) lots of people love it though..... i just prefer smaller pumps i guess.

we're all different. i have been on 2 accu chek pumps and 1 animas pump, i prefer all of them to this house brick piece of cheap plastic... they should let us trial a pump before we decide as we are all different.

the 640g is huge and heavy, i hate it! insight is smaller

medtronic 640g holds 300u

i did, but now back on pump as got sick of night time hypos from hell.

wow that's terrible, i always thought that was cheap. i will def buy my own then! don;t want to give medtronic any extra NHS money. i had a faulty box of infusion sets off them the other week. i asked them to send me a replacement and not charge the NHS once again, luckily they did. I don't...

medtronic charge £5 for 4 AA alkaline batteries, think cheaper than the shops

i feel better at work than at home, bloods prefer work but yes, i often feel really tired. esp as i hardly sleep at night either. fun times

the only basal i test or have tested is over night. i have a flat rate basal in the morning then afternoon, i then adjust my boluses to suit my eating and day. things change. it works for me. you have to do what works right for you. however, if you dont want to eat i would def suggest a bolus as...

i make myself eat as soon as i get up otherwise i go high. however, if i really dont want to i take about 1u bolus and that stops any rise until i am ready to eat

3/4 years i think, they stopped sending me appointments after my consultant appt was cancelled, never got rearranged so i just never bothered to contact them. i did eventually to tell them ive not see a consultant for a few years and they got me an appointment now being seen every year again. i...

C Peptide tests are meansured in pmol/L mine is <27 non type 1s have a fasting level of above >250 http://www.exeterlaboratory.com/test/c-peptide-plasma/

I don't drive either so have to rely on lifts and the train, I live in Coventry. I have been to the Rugby Hospital but they only did accu chek pumps last time I was there about 2013 and i didn't get on well with them there so I soon left, plus it was a pain to get to. Might be a bit different...

Do you have an actual pump currently? I know someone there who is on an accu chek pump and someone who also had a medtronic. So assuming they do Medtronic pumps there it just seems to be pot luck if they also give you the CGM start up kit. If Warwick isn't too far you could always swap...

Hiya, It was at Warwick Hospital.

i'm currently not using my pump, having a break. so yes and no, i raised my levemir basal doses but it was the bolus i raised more. on the pump i would have also raised both. not that it seemed to work. my body hates me not being active and so throws a wobbly! i think it was to do with lack of...

i clean for my job too. over christmas i was on ratios of 1u for 5g carb and now, back at work i'm on 1u for 25g carb as normal. crazy! cleaning is good for you!!!!! :)

have you tried a different basal insulin? lantus was like water for me, don't think it worked for me. i am now on levemir and i have 5/8u am depending on work day or weekend and 3.5u/5u pm again depending if a work day or weekend.

same for me i lived in warwick in 2004 when it was suggested i should have a pump. 1 year later i had moved to coventry so when my name was on top of the waiting list for a pump they had to seek permisson from cov PCT not warwick, as it was, they said yes.

i was 17 and have had t1 for 14.5 years