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- 74
- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Pump
I started the pump last thursday with just saline then on monday it was changed to insulin. When its working it fab but i have had loads of problems over the last 5 days and was wondering if anybody had experienced anything similar?
I am using rapid d link cannula's which worked fine on monday, although i had high results during the afternoon i was able to correct them.
Tuesday was great and i had good results all day until i changed the cannula early evening and started getting highs and my corrections weren't working so i changed the cannula again at midnight and my corrections worked again.
Wednesday i was out all day and my blood sugars were perfect, thursday was good too but when i had a shower in the evening and disconnected my pump i bent the needle in the connection between the link and the cannula. I didn't realise at the time but later in the evening noticed my blood sugars were going up. I corrected these and went to bed. By midnight i was 20.2 so i tried to change the cannula but couldn't prime the tubing, no insulin was coming out so i checked everywhere and realised the needle was bent from where i had earlier re-connected it. So now i had to change the link and the cannula again. I did this, removed all air bubbles, primed the entire line and re connected but since then i can't get the insulin to reach my body!
I have today changed the cannula 4 times and once was with my dsn watching and we also changed the cartridge and basically started a fresh. She was confident everything would be ok and sent me home.
I have already phoned roche twice today who are really helpful but can't work out what the problem is. The insulin always gets to the end of the cannula when priming, all the pump settings are correct so they think it has to be the cannula's………….Has anybody else experienced these kind of problems or is it just me? I now have a weekend of pen injections every 4 hours to look forward to because the pump isn't delivering any insulin to my body although it thinks it is, no alarms have gone off yet. I can't understand whats happening to the insulin………..
sorry for the long post
I am using rapid d link cannula's which worked fine on monday, although i had high results during the afternoon i was able to correct them.
Tuesday was great and i had good results all day until i changed the cannula early evening and started getting highs and my corrections weren't working so i changed the cannula again at midnight and my corrections worked again.
Wednesday i was out all day and my blood sugars were perfect, thursday was good too but when i had a shower in the evening and disconnected my pump i bent the needle in the connection between the link and the cannula. I didn't realise at the time but later in the evening noticed my blood sugars were going up. I corrected these and went to bed. By midnight i was 20.2 so i tried to change the cannula but couldn't prime the tubing, no insulin was coming out so i checked everywhere and realised the needle was bent from where i had earlier re-connected it. So now i had to change the link and the cannula again. I did this, removed all air bubbles, primed the entire line and re connected but since then i can't get the insulin to reach my body!
I have today changed the cannula 4 times and once was with my dsn watching and we also changed the cartridge and basically started a fresh. She was confident everything would be ok and sent me home.
I have already phoned roche twice today who are really helpful but can't work out what the problem is. The insulin always gets to the end of the cannula when priming, all the pump settings are correct so they think it has to be the cannula's………….Has anybody else experienced these kind of problems or is it just me? I now have a weekend of pen injections every 4 hours to look forward to because the pump isn't delivering any insulin to my body although it thinks it is, no alarms have gone off yet. I can't understand whats happening to the insulin………..
sorry for the long post