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<blockquote data-quote="Spearmint" data-source="post: 327740" data-attributes="member: 34673"><p>Hi again Lisa</p><p></p><p>Other training, erm....do you know how to fill a cartridge with insulin? insert it into the pump? prime the tubing? get rid of air bubbles? what to do about high levels? what to do incase of pump failure? how to adjust the basal rates?</p><p></p><p>She's been fine wearing it all the time, had no problems at school, fine using the handset, fine doing cannula changes.</p><p>I'm enjoying not having to remember which ratio is for which meal and having to do loads of calculations all the time!!</p><p>We have had a couple of small problems, a cannula wore out before it should have but once changed was fine and when we did a full cartridge, tubing and cannula change loads of air bubbles appeared a couple of hours later but no idea where from cos all was clear but we dealt with it fine.</p><p>Testing, i am still testing her 2 hourly overnight to adjust the basals as they still aren't set right for her yet, during the day she tests before breakfast, at morning break, before lunch, after school, before dinner, then i go 2 hourly from dinner til she wakes. We went completely carb free for the first 5/6 days to make setting the basals easier and added in 1 meal with carbs at a time.</p><p>I am making progress, the daytime is almost sorted out!! Night time is getting there but that was always the hardest time to control on injections so am not surprised it isn't quite right yet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spearmint, post: 327740, member: 34673"] Hi again Lisa Other training, erm....do you know how to fill a cartridge with insulin? insert it into the pump? prime the tubing? get rid of air bubbles? what to do about high levels? what to do incase of pump failure? how to adjust the basal rates? She's been fine wearing it all the time, had no problems at school, fine using the handset, fine doing cannula changes. I'm enjoying not having to remember which ratio is for which meal and having to do loads of calculations all the time!! We have had a couple of small problems, a cannula wore out before it should have but once changed was fine and when we did a full cartridge, tubing and cannula change loads of air bubbles appeared a couple of hours later but no idea where from cos all was clear but we dealt with it fine. Testing, i am still testing her 2 hourly overnight to adjust the basals as they still aren't set right for her yet, during the day she tests before breakfast, at morning break, before lunch, after school, before dinner, then i go 2 hourly from dinner til she wakes. We went completely carb free for the first 5/6 days to make setting the basals easier and added in 1 meal with carbs at a time. I am making progress, the daytime is almost sorted out!! Night time is getting there but that was always the hardest time to control on injections so am not surprised it isn't quite right yet. [/QUOTE]
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