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Blood vessels become brittle with blood sugar that is too high. If you can better manage it into a better level then they are less brittle. So tell us this- how high is high? What’s your a1c? Again if you can manage your blood sugar down, the smallest blood vessels will become less brittle.

Pros: I was lousy with a long acting basal insulin. After injected it was not flexible for me. I like the data that it collects for me. Cons: I’m a very small person, and my pump just seems huge on me. New technology creates a new learning curve, and new problems. To me the infusion set is...

Keep in mind this post is greater than 11 years old. And the person you’re asking hasn’t logged in for greater than 10 years.

If the body is stressed it will increase blood sugar. How many times have you run this experiment and seen your number go up? If only once then it’s a fluke. If all the time then you need more insulin.

It’s consistent for me. I have changed how I eat, what I eat, show much I eat. I really avoid eating big amounts of carbs to avoid taking big doses of insulin. It’s working for me, so that’s my path. If you find It’s only consistent with a meal, then analyze the meal itself. Or avoid it...

The delay is either from a very complex carb meal (which I personally avoid) or gastroparesis (which I have).

I hope your husband pulls through the concerns with covid. The diabetes thing can be figured out later.

I’m going to try to get really motivated and program a new pump with the settings on my old pump. Yawn! There are a million other things that I’d much rather do than this.

I might be becoming numb to pain. There are things that I know should really hurt and I’m just not feeling them. It makes me nervous. I know I need to discuss it with my doctor. But it’s just pain that I don’t feel. I do feel things on my fingers and toes. So I don’t know... I hit a deer the...

Fine work with the 7.6! Keep up the effort in that good direction!

I struggle with cannulas. I’m more successful with angled cannulas that I push in by hand. They might look a little intimidating, but my success rate is better. The shortest one available is 13mm, but it goes in at an angle so it lays between the skin layers.

Maybe I’m guilty of pushing my own button too much..

Found a crack in my pump. It’s exciting to find something new, but not really. The pump will get replaced but I’ll have to program the new pump. I really hate programming a pump. I wish they could be programmed by popping in a SIM card. Or like air dropping a bunch of photos via Bluetooth...

Had a crack develop on my pump that I wasn’t expecting. Right in the middle of the main button that always has to be pushed a fine “X” appeared. Warranty will replace it.

Something that relaxes you will help reduce blood sugar. The flip side is stress, which will increase blood sugar. Water relaxes me. I don’t know why. I get into a pool and start swimming and there’s a focus and a soothing calm that just takes over. I really enjoy it. And if I don’t prepare...

When I used to eat breakfast I found that my I:C ratio had to be twice that of any other time of the day. But in loading up that kind of insulin I’d always crash after DP ended around 11 AM. So I started to eat less, and then I dosed less and I crashed less. Then I went to skipping breakfast...

Eating anything warm will make you feel fuller. Eating proteins will have less of an effect on your blood sugar. But you also have to know/understand that dawn phenomenon means that anything you eat in the AM will cause your blood sugar to be quite volatile. I gave up eating breakfast. It...

We always need to be prepared to use a basal insulin. Something over the counter. At the end of last year my pump supplies company also let me down. I did go pick up a vial of over the counter basal insulin. And then I finally got supplies. I guess I got lucky. But we always need to be...

This thread is greater than 2 years old. Concerns for cgm accuracy is still a real concern. But you should consider starting your own thread. I have cgm and I don’t really trust it. If I see something from it that I don’t believe I use my glucometer.

Feliz Navidad!