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Animas Vibe shutdown?

Spiker

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
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Pump
During one month (or whatever) pump holiday.

Anyone know how I can shut my pump up and still save the basal settings? I've taken it off, it's obviously alarming every 2 minutes like a little moron. If I take the battery out, I will eventually lose my basal settings, right?

Reminds me to be annoyed that you can't upload/download basal settings (and other settings) to a PC or other device.
 
hitch the pump up to diasend and retrieve the setting so you can just put them in again at a later date.

Not sure if all the alarms can be switched off unless you remove battery.
 
With the Medtronic pumps, you can pretend there's a reservoir in it by priming and sticking something in to stop the "plunger", as if it has reached the reservoir (I use my little finger). If you mean the alarm goes, reminding you to bolus, you could switch off that alarm.

If you can make the pump think it has a full reservoir, it should be ok for days before the alarm rings for the empty reservoir.
 
CarbsRok said:
hitch the pump up to diasend and retrieve the setting so you can just put them in again at a later date.

Not sure if all the alarms can be switched off unless you remove battery.
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Thanks, I didn't know you could do that in Diasend. I will take a poke around it.
 
OK, I see, I can read my basal settings off the graphs in Diasend and reset them manually. I was really looking for a way to 'save and restore' my basal rate settings but I guess this is better than nothing. Does it store any other pump settings? Ratios etc?
 
Write all yr time slots down on paper with the basal rates, carb ratios, correction factor and acting time or type them and store it all on word or excel....that way if the internet went down and Diasend wasnt available, you would be ok.
 
@Spiker, could you not just write your basal setting down together with all your the information in your pump, prior to and since changing to a pump my DSN has always said how important this is in the event of a pump failure (although the Diasend suggestion by @CarbsRok is a great idea).
 
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