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MushyPeaBrain

MushyPeaBrain

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
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Yesterday I did a set change at lunch. In a good spot, nowhere near where I used to inject etc, and BG was great. BG before bed was 6 with tiny bit of insulin left to bring me to target of 5.3

Woke up at 6.30 and felt sick - REALLY sick. Checked pump and all connected. BG 12.4 and I normally wake up with BG 4-5 so something was wrong. Took correction and breakfast bolus together and waited for it to drop. Felt so, so sick, much more than "normal" for that BG. Knew something was wrong.

40 minutes later BG 13 and feeling even worse. Set failure. Fired in new set and did big bolus. 40 minutes later down to 9 and dropping.

Pulled failed set to see what had happened. No kink, no blood, looked perfect. Got scared it was pump not working so called Animas. Woman was great but said based on info it wasn't pump or set but a site failure. It happens. Sites just stop working.

Now this has scared me no end. I rotate carefully etc and never imagined a site would stop taking in the insulin. I was close to needing to go to hospital and there was nothing I could have done.

Is this rare? I am scared to trust my sites now :cry: :cry:
 
Hi,
My 13 year old daughter has been on the same pump as yourself since October. Exactly the same thing has happened to us several times. My daughter is very slim and we think that is were the problem lies with us. Just seen her Consultant yesterday and they have given her a 'plaster' to stick on the site before she inserts the cannula to act as a platform. She is on the 6mm so hopefully to should take approx 1mm off the needle length. We have had many failures with the Inset II's and even had the rep visit us at home thinking it was our technique. Even whilst the rep was here the sets have fallen apart which she assures us shouldn't happen. They have taken a note of the batch numbers and are investigating.

Hope this assures you that you are not the only one experiencing this too - you were lucky with your bloods only being 12-13, Niamh had ridiculously high ones in the 30's! We have read on this forum to keep the cannula's in the fridge and we seem to be having a lot less problems since we are doing this (an idea to try maybe).

Gayle
 
Thank you Gayle - your post has given me some hope! I have used the Inset IIs for a year and started storing them in the fridge in March. This had fantastic results and I was pumping almost issue free for ages.

Recently I would go to fire a set in and the whole white middle fired out. I was concerned the fridge was freezing the glue but even when not stored in the fridge they do this. I have reported it too. Do you have the batch numbers so we could see if they taly?

I was sent a new lot with a different batch number but these are very hard to pull back to set. Again even when not stored in the fridge! I somehow feel the Inset II quality has been lowered and it's scary.

I now have no choice but to try using the sets that are hard to pull back until after Christmas when I can try and contact Animas again :(
 
I don't use the animas, but my friend does and she's having the same problems, she changed sets that seemed to resolve this issue but it has no returned again..

She contacted her rep, as she's convinced it's something to do with her pump, this is her second pump since September the first was under dosing the basal Animas still says it wasn't though, and she's convinced that this pump is doing the same..
 
sounds like a creep animas problem, no problems ever with medtronic pumps been on it for 4 yrs now and never had anythink like that.
 
Jopar has your friend reported the set issues? I'm pretty sure it's the sets and not my pump. All the problems have been recently since the set quality seems to have gone downhill.

Animas have just asked for a couple of the sets thats fall apart to be sent back. I'm doing this but don't feel that they are taking this seriously. I love the pump but I don't feel so safe on it lately due to this :(
 
I have just done a search online and found numerous other posts in pumping forums about Animas sets falling apart. This is a known problem and I'm very annoyed that Animas have not notified people about it. It is not just the UK either :x
 
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