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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jopar" data-source="post: 33722" data-attributes="member: 11712">Learning carb counting is essentrial...Depending on the area and how they start pumpers off will determin several things....  In my hospital they tend to start pumpers off in a group, it isn't esstentrial that you've had a carb counting course before you start as you have 3 days of training a month before you are due to start pumping, you attend your first day of training a carb training day!!! (I was lucky because I've done the DAFNE course previous (doasge adjustment for normal eating) then you have a month to get your head around it all if you've had no previous training, then we had 2 days with the rep from the pump company (and in our case the rep himself was a insulin pumper) pump nurse and the diabetic dieticain...  (and we went straight onto pumping insulin from mid morning)I started in a group of 4, I had done DAFNE, one already had a younger brother using a pump, another had done his hospitals version of the DAFNE course and one who had actually been the longest serving diabetic had no training at all except the one day trainging that we attended the month before...The last one struggled big time,  I met here on our first visit to the conulstant after 3 months of being on the pump, and she was having a terrible time of it..  she just couldn't get her head around how important knowing your carbs was to pupming....Another benefit about getting into and using carb counting before starting a pump, is that it makes pumping a lot easier and a lot less scarey....   If you've compentant on counting carbs etc, then when you start the pump all you are learning is how to use the pump which in it self is a learning curve, but having to incorparate learning carb counting along side the pump make for one hell of a learning curve indeed...</blockquote>

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