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My best response to this is to explain what I do ....... I have my pump set up with a basal rate for every hour of the day - from one hour to the next some of the rates are the same but I worked on the principle that in nature, nothing changes abruptly and by adjusting rates hourly I am able to...

Ditto to the above although not sure what extra premium I paid - guess it depends on the company anyway. My insurance company paid little attention to what I was insuring to be honest - just its value. I got the same premium increase for a cameral lens of a similar value to my pump which I was...

When used with the Paradigm Veo, Medtronics sensors last an "official" six days rather than three but still expensive! (You can sometimes suck more time out of them but how long they last after that time is a bit of a lottery). There is another consumable cost in that the system transmitter is...

If insulin is active for 4-5 hours after a bolus, taken say at the same time/just before a meal, how can any T1 get to – and keep - a steady blood glucose level until 4-5 hours after the meal when the only insulin in the system is bolus insulin, balancing glucose from the liver. (Unless of...

I have tried - unsuccessfully - to get NHS funding for CGM sensors. Diverse lifestyle, often working and travelling alone being part of my argument. Effectively, my NHS trust is so strapped for cash, they are not going to spend a penny more than they absolutely have to. Further, for Joe Public...

Each pump has a serial number and each serial number is logged at Medtronic UK HQ alongside the details of who/which organisation it was supplied to. I wonder how relevant this "news" actually is given tbe date of it - over three weeks ago. Surely, all users of the Veo pumps who need to know...

Wow! Thank you for posting your spreadsheet - I have something similar although my "graph" of basal rates over a 24hr period isn't as rocky as yours. Since my post towards the top of this thread, I have taken a more scientific approach to my basal testing - starting a basal test five hours...

Without wishing to sound flippant or like an typical HCP - "We are all different" - what is the case for one person will not necessarily be the case for another. It may be worth logging your blood glucose levels in order to determine the profile that the Levemir is giving. To do this, divide...

Hello, Is there anyone here who is T1 and who uses Metformin alongside an insulin pump, primarily with the aim of reducing postprandial spikes in BG level? Specific questions: 1. What happens to basal insulin rates on a pump when using Metformin with meals? 2. Can someone using a Basal/Bolus...

Must say, I am in total agreement with Kegs - for many many years, my diabetes regime was very hit and miss. What to eat, when to eat and how much insulin to inject was all very much finger in the air stuff and hardly any blood glucose testing at all. It was the embarrassment of hypos at work...

Thank you for the link - will save any concerns in the future but to be honest, with the size of the "occlusive" dressings I am using over the CGM transmitter/sensor, I find that the 3" exclusion zone isn't really an issue - I generally try and keep the plumbing for the CGM on the opposite side...

I also managed to lose weight after going on an insulin pump. I tend to think that this is due to me taking less insulin and not "feeding the insulin" in order to keep BGs at a resonable level. I have become almost obsessed with testing my BG and adjusting my insulin levels accordingly now that...

Some real and very heartfelt views here - in my 42 year T1 experience, treating hypos requires a lot of discipline. I am sure that I am not the only one to hit the biscuit barrel, sweetie cupboard and bread bin one after another and in rapid succession in order to get BG levels back up to...

Sounds similiar to the tattoo idea here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33831728...alth-diabetes/ (It's not 1st April by any chance is it?) Alan

... and here's one I prepared earlier - not necessarily for any dieticians on this forum I hasten to add... Best wishes to all - and thank you to everyone who has helped me over the last few months. Alan

My £0.02 worth .... I agree with Debs - suggest you take a look at your background insulin which should (and I stress the word 'should' keep your BG level down throughout the day and night. Many people split their background insulin into two injections - one in the morning and one at night...

Top! It will not take long for you to wonder how you ever got on with multiple injections for all those years. Brilliant news, keep in touch..... no doubt you will! Alan

I suspect that "worst things" will vary according to an individual's lifestyle and will vary throughout his/her life. I have only had a pump for a matter of 6 or 7 months and like the others who have responded would never go back to multiple daily injections. Like Jo, I wish that I had been...

Are there any CGM users who can give me some advice on what dressing to use to keep the sensors in place? I am using the Medtronics transmitter/sensor arrangement and up to now have had a small supply of dressings which I got free of charge from one of the DSNs at the hospital who let me have a...

Abolutely YES! Losing weight for me was always very difficult when on insulin and without the DAFNE principles. I would reduce my insulin dose ... by some random figure I guess... and then eat less. However, inevitably, I wouldn't have reduced it enough and so a few hours later - out come the...