As mentioned in another thread I just managed to break my pump.
The nice American lady (Customer Service) told me to go onto my backup plan. OK. The UK Customer Service person said use my backup plan. At this point I explained I'd rather not, since my backup plan puts me in hospital receiving my basal insulin via a drip. She was absolutely horrified - is it really that rare to be allergic to the long acting insulins?
I've now had a quick email and phone exchange with one of the consultants at the diabetes centre, discussing options etc. The result is one emergency prescription of Tresiba. This creates a bit of a new problem, I understand Tresiba has an activity tail of 24 - 42 hrs in theory. Switching between this and the basal supplied by a pump (tail of about 8 hours) is going to present an interesting challenge. Add to that the probability that the pump basal dose is up to 25% less than the injected basal, and I'm a little worried.
I should say the reason I want to figure this out now is that at the moment I have my husband with me 24/7 - highly useful for those sudden rapid incoming hypos!
So, basically HELP please
Anyone done this, or anything like this?
Is anyone allergic to Tresiba as well as the other two?
Do you find the Tresiba activity to be completely flat (scepticism on my part here)
Anything blindingly obvious that you think I'm missing?
The nice American lady (Customer Service) told me to go onto my backup plan. OK. The UK Customer Service person said use my backup plan. At this point I explained I'd rather not, since my backup plan puts me in hospital receiving my basal insulin via a drip. She was absolutely horrified - is it really that rare to be allergic to the long acting insulins?
I've now had a quick email and phone exchange with one of the consultants at the diabetes centre, discussing options etc. The result is one emergency prescription of Tresiba. This creates a bit of a new problem, I understand Tresiba has an activity tail of 24 - 42 hrs in theory. Switching between this and the basal supplied by a pump (tail of about 8 hours) is going to present an interesting challenge. Add to that the probability that the pump basal dose is up to 25% less than the injected basal, and I'm a little worried.
I should say the reason I want to figure this out now is that at the moment I have my husband with me 24/7 - highly useful for those sudden rapid incoming hypos!
So, basically HELP please
Anyone done this, or anything like this?
Is anyone allergic to Tresiba as well as the other two?
Do you find the Tresiba activity to be completely flat (scepticism on my part here)
Anything blindingly obvious that you think I'm missing?