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Hey helensarmy thanks for the response!, I went to the diabetic clinic today and we talked over plans if this happens again. I am now carrying a pen with me at all times as a back up. As for the pump we found out that there was a crack in the resevior causing insulin to go back into the pump. I...

Hey juicyj just heard back from Medtronic today and it was found that a crack in my insulin reservoir caused insulin to leak back into my pump causing failure. My pump was out of warranty and I am currently working on getting another one. They gave me one in the meantime due to the failure...

Thanks for sharing kitedoc. I had another visit with the diabetic clinic today and figured out a plan to prevent something like this from happening again. I now am carrying and insulin pen around just incase I run into pump failure or a bad sight. Thanks for all the helpful info. I don't get the...

Hey DCUKmod I at first didn't realize my pump wasn't working. It didn't give me any warning alarms or anything. I just assumed it might have been a bad sight, so I changed it and my number seemed to go down. Then again later that day my number went up again and stayed high for the next day. Once...

I've been type 1 diabetic for 7 years now with decent control over my sugars. My average A1C is 7-7.5, recently I had some issues with insulin pump failure causing my sugars to go high for 2 days straight. Well that was enough to send my into DKA. Was in the hospital for two days. That was a...