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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jopar" data-source="post: 234681" data-attributes="member: 11712">My worst fear just before starting on a pump was it pumping over-night no problems with it doing it's business during the day when I was awake as I could keep an eye on things, night times how ever was a different ball game..  But OH settled my fears when he told me I was being a numpty as what did I do every night at 11pm?  Inject background insulin and what did I think that did overnight exactly :roll: Warning the pump has never bothered me apart from my first night which was a bit sleepless..Good idea's about taking a week of work to settle into having the pump, as lot of testing..As until you pin the basal rate's down nothing else will be correct so work on basal rate before fine tuning your carb/insulin ratio's..  Get your night time basal sorted first as this is the most exhausting one to do,,,Best way of sorting out basal rates is fast testing, so you can see what your basal is upto..Change one thing at a time, change too much you won't know what bit did or didn't work for you..A good book to invest in is John Walsh's 'Pumping Insulin' it's known as the pumpers bible..A couple of tips..Try to change your sets before a meal/eating as any problems with sets will show a lot quicker as you are bolusing straight away,If you get a high BG of over 14/16mmol/l use your insulin pen to inject the correction dose this tends to work a lot better than using the pump.Another trick is to keep the tube/pump connector facing downwards, then if you do get any bubbles in the cartridge they will stay at the other end of the cartridge and not go through the tubing,,,I found the first couple of weeks a very emotional experience and had floods of tears at the end of the first week, tears of joy though not having to tackle one hypo been a long time since that happened as I experienced 3-4 mild hypo's a day..</blockquote>

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