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<blockquote data-quote="donnellysdogs" data-source="post: 177851" data-attributes="member: 17713"><p>I have not yet mastered big or small airbubbles.</p><p></p><p>I automatically reprime after 4-5 hours after putting in a new cartridge, and normally after 24 hours too, making sure I bang the pump as i am priming. This is the only way I get stability for 6 days continuous.</p><p>Due to other things occuring over the weekend I forgot to reprime Sunday night before I went to bed and this morning I woke up to levels at 19.....I never get these high levels when I reprime after 24 hours, so I can only put it down to an airbubble having got all the way through the tubing. I went to bed at 5.0 so I cannot think of any other reason why I woke up to such high's. I of course immediately checked the connectors, lueur, set etc, and I did not have any alarms go off. After I reprimed anyway this morning my levels came down as normal.</p><p></p><p>Every time I reprime at these times, I am staggered at the amount of bubbles that I can't see in the cartridge but have accumulated at the lueur connector.</p><p></p><p>I did a posting on this when I first went on the pump as I was so fed up with getting high's everytime i did a cartridge change, and this was the only way of managing the bubbles.</p><p></p><p>My cartridges are absolutely clear of bubbles when I load them in the pump, and it didn't matter when I took the cartridges or insulin out to get them up to room temperature whether I kept the cartidge out till I used it or whether I took the cartirdge or insulin out 2 hours or whether it was cold.</p><p></p><p>Because my foods are so routine, it was just so idnetifiable that these problems occurred 5 hours after a new cartridge and 24 hours after, so now I reprime before they can occur (normally)......</p><p></p><p>Some people have problems, and some people don't it seems. Even my rep sent me off with a huge airbubble in my cartridge on the day I started, assuring me that big bubbles won't get in the tubing......but they do......does everybody else keep their machines facing down when they sleep or are they horizontal?? IF they are horizontal, then airbubbles can move.....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donnellysdogs, post: 177851, member: 17713"] I have not yet mastered big or small airbubbles. I automatically reprime after 4-5 hours after putting in a new cartridge, and normally after 24 hours too, making sure I bang the pump as i am priming. This is the only way I get stability for 6 days continuous. Due to other things occuring over the weekend I forgot to reprime Sunday night before I went to bed and this morning I woke up to levels at 19.....I never get these high levels when I reprime after 24 hours, so I can only put it down to an airbubble having got all the way through the tubing. I went to bed at 5.0 so I cannot think of any other reason why I woke up to such high's. I of course immediately checked the connectors, lueur, set etc, and I did not have any alarms go off. After I reprimed anyway this morning my levels came down as normal. Every time I reprime at these times, I am staggered at the amount of bubbles that I can't see in the cartridge but have accumulated at the lueur connector. I did a posting on this when I first went on the pump as I was so fed up with getting high's everytime i did a cartridge change, and this was the only way of managing the bubbles. My cartridges are absolutely clear of bubbles when I load them in the pump, and it didn't matter when I took the cartridges or insulin out to get them up to room temperature whether I kept the cartidge out till I used it or whether I took the cartirdge or insulin out 2 hours or whether it was cold. Because my foods are so routine, it was just so idnetifiable that these problems occurred 5 hours after a new cartridge and 24 hours after, so now I reprime before they can occur (normally)...... Some people have problems, and some people don't it seems. Even my rep sent me off with a huge airbubble in my cartridge on the day I started, assuring me that big bubbles won't get in the tubing......but they do......does everybody else keep their machines facing down when they sleep or are they horizontal?? IF they are horizontal, then airbubbles can move..... [/QUOTE]
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