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Why are you all buying your tabs? Glucotabs are available on prescription. I must have spent hundreds of pounds on Dextro tabs over the years, using at least one or two packets a week and hypo at least one per day. I used so many I used to buy them in bulk when Superdruge had their three for...

Thanks for that, I feel a bitr more reassured. I am on hourly rates btut nothing seems to work with me. My pump trainer knows the basics but whatever we agree nothing seems to work. Only thing is I have fewer hypos but many readings in the high teens and 20s. When I started to push up the...

I have been on the Accu-chek for three months and am struggling to get my control right, even with input from the pump trainer. HBA1c is currently 9.3. It was 7.1 before. I have been more agressively increasing my basal doses lately to try and get a grip on nightime highs. After five days of...

Hi Sparkle, Ive been on the pump for a month now and my bg is still very unstable. I always woke during the night to top up before pumping but since being on the pump my night readings are through the roof, as much as 27 recently. Today it was 19 at 1am and again at 5am. Working with my...

I was told to change my canula every three days and tubing every 6 days. I'm now on my third canula and just remembered I should have done it yesterday. How do you flag it to change? I could do them both at the same time but it seems a waste of insulin to have to change the tube every time...

Ive heard that ladies have to be very creative! The only drawback ive found is that it not as light as I thought it would be. It cant be comfortable or discreet stuffed in your bra!

Ive just started on the combo. My pump nurse (bless her) has not been trained on the remote so she cannot show me how it works. There's nothing to stop me learning from the instructions but having said that, I find that pressing a few buttons on the pump is not onerous at all. Im sure the...

Hi Avi, What sort of readings are your getting? hba 6.1 seems exeptionally good to me. Are you getting lots of hypos, which would be one reason for offering you a pump. My swings were really annoying, anything from 1.8 to 18+ while managing to achieve hba 7.1. Had a really nasty hypo about...

What about the one that no-one seems to want to talk about?

Its reassuring to know that other new pumpers are being offered the Roche and are satisifed with it, even if cost is the main reason. Kegstore, How did you manage to get a Medtronic with a CGM? Do you fund the CGM yourself? Thanks

Cannot find it for the moment but there was a link on the NICE website to the Purchasing and Supply Agency report CEP 08004 dated Feb 2008. From information on this website (Diabetes.co.uk) it appears that the Spirit has been superseded by the Spirit Combo. No wonder I am confused. It is...

I am due to go to my first training session on 10th March and have been told I will strat straight away with insulin, not saline. I am surprised by some of the answers above as my pump nurse (trainer) said that they only offer the AccuChek Spirit (unless I can make a good case for another...

Tracey, I believe the NICE guidance on pumping is not mandatory for PCTs. It is a recommendation and they can choose to ignore it if they wish. However, pumping is recommended where MDI has failed and those moved on to it have the competence and commitment to use it effectively. I have just...