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Red-necked wallaby

I think the request has to come via your diabetes nurse/clinic then your doc can put it on your repeat prescription. I don’t think they will do it automatically.

Today I'm Retired Extremely Dangerous. SHORE

Keeping this old girl in the road.

Can Heavy Energetic Elephants Run? HEAVY

Your outdated goals are simple. TEPID

Ensuring that your bg is ok before the class, you could disconnect for an hour then connect back up to the pump and do the (basal rate what would have been delivered over that hour) as a bolus.

Why don't you disconnect while getting changed,then just reach through and connect up again?

Apologies for hijacking a thread and yes I agree about the medication it just annoys me exactly as you've said. We "kinda"volunteer the info about us, yet get penalised when we try and help ourselves. Aaaaaaaaaaaagggggggghhhhhhhhhh. Go pick on someone who isn't trying their best to be...

Why can't it be used before driving?

are you filling the cannula correctly? e.g a 9mm cannula takes .5 units to fill and if your basal is 1.5 per hour your gonna be that .5 short after that hour. just a thought.

as the previous replies have said "you'll be fine" I've had mine for a year now and you really do forget where it is a lot of the time. you haven't said which pump your getting, so i can only speak about the Minimed 640G. some of its infusion sets have really long tubes and i sometimes just clip...

I'm on a pump now but when i was on MDI i would inject before meals, i found it better as the insulin can kinda start working as the carbs are getting absorbed. dont panic to much about spikes in your blood readings as the areas of your body have different absorption rates.

Aldi Rice cake bars at only 11 carbs a bar, ive only tried the milk choc and orange choc ones.

In about 20yrs at a push, your daughter will have a heart attack. Her eyesight will fail and she will have severe nerve damage. All from constant high blood sugars. I know this because it happened to me. I'm now 43 and lucky to be alive.

Thinking about it, this isn't the first time I've had problems with the insertion of the cannula. Perhaps I'll look at the steel ones. Thanks.

It was just something I wondered in the early hours of a night shift. [emoji3]

this was the cannula.

I changed my set today, as it turns out the cannula didn't actually penetrate the skin. I discovered this when I decided to change it again with a blood reading of 21. I had been taking readings which had continually increased and I thought enough was enough and the correction bolus was doing...