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Hi, just wondered if anyone uses this feature? I just wanted to know if when you enter the info to the wizard such as your BG level and carb intake and it gives you the estimated bolus based on your ratio, it also gives you the estimated correction dose and remaining active insulin. However, it...

Thank you for the tip. Feel a bit despondent this evening. Meant to have the night out but cancelled due to a bent cannula :banghead: I just didn't feel confident going out when my BG was so high and having no idea whether it would go up or down or whether the new set I'd put in had gone...

Thanks folks :) Down to 11.1 now, so feeling better. All the advice is really invaluable as a new pumper. Plus it's one way to get through all your test trips, lol.

Thank you everyone for your help. I got through to my nurse who told me to just change the set, and wouldn't you know, the cannula was bent double! So, it was a set fail after all. My BG went to 19.1 and ketones fairly high. I've been chugging water and they have started to come down and...

It's been a 1hr 15mins and I'm test again and I'm 17.2 Bearing in mind I had my lunch which was was 45g carb and I bolused 4.5u with the pump and 2u correction with pen.

I'm using quick-set.

No discomfort when I press on it. Can't feel a thing. I know iHs, it's an awkward one. My BG on waking was 5.7, so nice and normal. I'll make sure I monitor hourly. If in this situation again, what should I have done with regards to the bolus/correction? Thank you.

I'm on the medtronic mini med. I primed it and insulin came through. The set felt a bit sore going on (but seems normal for me) but after a couple of minutes was fine.

Hi I did a set change this morning (only the second time I've done it unsupervised) and all appeared to go well, no problems. I had breakfast (took bolus) and tested an hour later and I was 11. I'm now out for the remainder of the day. I sat down to my lunch, tested by B.G and I was 14.4...

I HAVE to sleep in my birthday suit otherwise I just get far too hot. First couple of night I had it strapped around my leg in one of those handy little velcro pouches and since then I've just let it roam free at my side and it's been fine.

I'm just taking small steps with mine. I'm not playing around with any of the bolus features just yet. I'm just going at the pace of the training and just getting use to having it on me, getting used to the new ratios (although I have adjusted them to suit me better) and maintaining my diary...

I just went straight on it. I was told initially that I would have it hooked up with just saline, but then when I got my actual appointment date, I was told I would be going straight on it, so I just went with the flow. It's been 4 days, and after an initial blip on the first day, it has been...

I trained as an Holistic Therapist a few years ago, and to be honest, they make students terrified of touching anyone with diabetes (and certain other conditions). I remember reading the website of a local therapist who had "people with diabetes" listed in the section of those who "Shouldn't...

Thank you for the link, noblehead. I have taken a week off work next week (currently on 'spring break'), so I will get to basal testing then.

Thank you for all your replies! Very much appreciated since I got off to a very rocky first day. I managed to get my BG level down ~ in fact a bit too much ~ as I then had a hypo (2.7) at 11pm and then again (2.4) at 2.30am! However, I woke this morning at 7.7, I changed my ratio from what was...

Ha ha! Yeah, definitely! I wouldn't mind, I'd already read over it once. I learn by doing, though, and making notes. I thought the flashing and vibrations meant it was delivering the bolus. D'oh!

OK, I know what I was doing wrong! I was not even delivering my bolus properly!! I was setting it and pressing ACT but you need to press ACT twice. How do I come out of pump training not knowing something so basic? Maybe because the nurse sped through it (there were three of us there) and I was...

Got it, THANK YOU!

Yes, she did the whole pump thing this morning and call at 4pm to see how it was going. She's calling tomorrow. I did feel everything this morning was rather rushed, though. OK, I can NOT disconnect. I'm trying to line up the little blue triangles at it is not budging!

Hi, yes, I pressed ACT and it does the little vibrate thing to tell me how many units are being delivered. I'll do what you say and disconnect and trying a bolus. Thanks.