pumppimp
Well-Known Member
For anyone who might be interested I thought I would share how I'm getting on with my new toy.
Day one christmas day;
So i spent most of the morning reading instructions and was completely disinterested in what everyone else got including me 3 year old niece who was trying to show me every present, my husband took it off me in the end! After present time it was off up stairs to get ready and get inserted. For anyone who knows me I loathe inserting devices and this was no different i ended up wasting the first sensor set so now I'm only down to 3 sets left errr! Once I'd figured it out and calmed down if was easy enough and comfortable enough. It is quite a bit bigger than the usual infusion sets I wear and will take a bit of getting used to. Also i stupidly put it right on my trouser top line, so any time I wear a skirt jeans tights etc it gets in the way, mistake I won't be repeating twice. I was hoping to have it all set up and ready to go to map christmas dinner but alas I mapped the evening aftermath instead. when it starts it asks you to give it 2 bg readings I thought this was strange 2 straight after each other but when i did that i got 2 readings about 1.5 apart so not a bad idea afterall.
Day two;
I went low once during the night just a small over bolus but my pumped beeped at 4.4 and then will keep beeping until you confirm, so it did wake me up about 3.9, very handy, also I've had a few more serious hypos into the 2's it gives off a loud piercing sound at 3.1 which makes me jump. I was very nervous having a shower with it on but all stuck fast and it even kept transmitting to my pump throughout my shower, which was about 6ft away, I was impressed. Also been very impressed about the accuracy infact my battery has worn down from pressing the screen every few minutes to see where my bg is. I also manged to get through a 50 pack of test strips within 4 days because i was always wanting to compare. I had never realised before the effect of detaching my pump had on my levels and as i was going through a bad cold it was even more drastic. It had an effect on me for about 2 hours afterwards and wouldn't budge until I had finished a long walk with the dogs at the beach. After my walk decided to treat myself to an orange hot choc I guessed about 35g and was about right although I should have bolused earlier for it. One of the major thingsI'm noticing is that when i don't have my bolus timming correct how high I can spike. The high warning that was set on the pump was 11.1 but I moved it down to 10 thinking surely I won't go over that much, well i do and it was really quite a shock.
Day 3;
Still loving everything about it also finding it really handy having the dropping or rising too fast alarm gives me a heads up of bad bolus timing or guessing carb amounts and lets me sort it before any major excursions to the red or blue zone.
Day 6;
Well my sticky has given up and it starting to peel away after a nice bath using nice christmassy presents. The set is fine and still very accurate I havn't had it out more than 1 apart from when i needed to wash my hands. i've stuck a giant plaster over the top to hold it in place skin tac has been ordered fingers crossed it hangs on in there until it arrives.
Day 7:
time for a set change or so my pump keeps beeping at me anyway, i don't need told repeatedly that the set needs changed shut up!! As you can guess I'm keeping it on as long as it's accurate which it is. Getting quite irritating with constant reminders and was the a finger stick reading would you like it calibrated etc etc, too many buttons to press confirming everything.
day 14 (today)
Still very accurate although the differences can sometimes be up to 1.2 although the differenece between 2 fingersticks can be up to 2 so I'm definitely not worried. My giant elastoplast is still holding on although I'll have to replace it soon, also the connectivity between the transmitter and pump is having a few more holes than I would like. That may be something to do with a plaster over the top of the transmitter will know more when I get the skin tac.
So overall I'm very pleased and happy with gizmo as i call him, hoping I can keep him in a month then report on the damage if any. some people were afraid of scaring but as it's not putting anything into the body apart from a tiny wire I don't think it'll be a problem. New years resolution, to keep my bg in the green zones at all times (4.4-10) it'll be hard but I can't wait to see my next HbA1c. Then hopefully i'll eventually get that even lower.
Day one christmas day;
So i spent most of the morning reading instructions and was completely disinterested in what everyone else got including me 3 year old niece who was trying to show me every present, my husband took it off me in the end! After present time it was off up stairs to get ready and get inserted. For anyone who knows me I loathe inserting devices and this was no different i ended up wasting the first sensor set so now I'm only down to 3 sets left errr! Once I'd figured it out and calmed down if was easy enough and comfortable enough. It is quite a bit bigger than the usual infusion sets I wear and will take a bit of getting used to. Also i stupidly put it right on my trouser top line, so any time I wear a skirt jeans tights etc it gets in the way, mistake I won't be repeating twice. I was hoping to have it all set up and ready to go to map christmas dinner but alas I mapped the evening aftermath instead. when it starts it asks you to give it 2 bg readings I thought this was strange 2 straight after each other but when i did that i got 2 readings about 1.5 apart so not a bad idea afterall.
Day two;
I went low once during the night just a small over bolus but my pumped beeped at 4.4 and then will keep beeping until you confirm, so it did wake me up about 3.9, very handy, also I've had a few more serious hypos into the 2's it gives off a loud piercing sound at 3.1 which makes me jump. I was very nervous having a shower with it on but all stuck fast and it even kept transmitting to my pump throughout my shower, which was about 6ft away, I was impressed. Also been very impressed about the accuracy infact my battery has worn down from pressing the screen every few minutes to see where my bg is. I also manged to get through a 50 pack of test strips within 4 days because i was always wanting to compare. I had never realised before the effect of detaching my pump had on my levels and as i was going through a bad cold it was even more drastic. It had an effect on me for about 2 hours afterwards and wouldn't budge until I had finished a long walk with the dogs at the beach. After my walk decided to treat myself to an orange hot choc I guessed about 35g and was about right although I should have bolused earlier for it. One of the major thingsI'm noticing is that when i don't have my bolus timming correct how high I can spike. The high warning that was set on the pump was 11.1 but I moved it down to 10 thinking surely I won't go over that much, well i do and it was really quite a shock.
Day 3;
Still loving everything about it also finding it really handy having the dropping or rising too fast alarm gives me a heads up of bad bolus timing or guessing carb amounts and lets me sort it before any major excursions to the red or blue zone.
Day 6;
Well my sticky has given up and it starting to peel away after a nice bath using nice christmassy presents. The set is fine and still very accurate I havn't had it out more than 1 apart from when i needed to wash my hands. i've stuck a giant plaster over the top to hold it in place skin tac has been ordered fingers crossed it hangs on in there until it arrives.
Day 7:
time for a set change or so my pump keeps beeping at me anyway, i don't need told repeatedly that the set needs changed shut up!! As you can guess I'm keeping it on as long as it's accurate which it is. Getting quite irritating with constant reminders and was the a finger stick reading would you like it calibrated etc etc, too many buttons to press confirming everything.
day 14 (today)
Still very accurate although the differences can sometimes be up to 1.2 although the differenece between 2 fingersticks can be up to 2 so I'm definitely not worried. My giant elastoplast is still holding on although I'll have to replace it soon, also the connectivity between the transmitter and pump is having a few more holes than I would like. That may be something to do with a plaster over the top of the transmitter will know more when I get the skin tac.
So overall I'm very pleased and happy with gizmo as i call him, hoping I can keep him in a month then report on the damage if any. some people were afraid of scaring but as it's not putting anything into the body apart from a tiny wire I don't think it'll be a problem. New years resolution, to keep my bg in the green zones at all times (4.4-10) it'll be hard but I can't wait to see my next HbA1c. Then hopefully i'll eventually get that even lower.