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I am now a pumper

porl69

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Pontypool, South Wales
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Type 1
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I started on the Medtronic 640G yesterday. Happy as a clam (never understood that saying lol)
Was hypo most of the night, jelly babies came to the rescue on numerous occasions. I am putting that down to still having Tresiba in my system. Then from 9am this morning I have been in the low teens. Bolus wizard changed for the mornings now. See how tonight goes, then a basal test over the weekend
Get ready for all the questions very soon lol
 
Fingers firmly crossed for you. Hopefully you and your pump will be a marriage made in Heaven.
 
@porl69 Happy days

I'm a 640 user too so any queries happy to help - also agree any residual tresiba would be the cause of your overnight pain, hopefully it's working it's way out of your system now.

Get yourself a copy of 'Pumping insulin' by John Walsh too - a useful read for new pumpers
 

Just bought that for my Kindle, so will be having a read through that over the coming days.
Thank you for the info
 
Great news @porl69 I wish you have a long and a happy time with your new pump, are you going to give it a name ?
Happy days ( with the odd tweak or two)
 
Robinredbreast said:
Great news @porl69 I wish you have a long and a happy time with your new pump, are you going to give it a name ?
Happy days ( with the odd tweak or two)
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"Mike" at the moment. Its a Medtronic pump...Mike and the Mechanics.....you can see where I am going here
 
Well this could be the miracle you needed, I wonder if it runs silently - word of mouth says use a belt, don't sling it over your shoulder, taken in and you could be living years................
 
I'd like to formally welcome you to the Pumping Club!

The title of this message made me think off AA-type meetings: "My name is porl69 and I am a pumper. I have been clean for 2 days now. ..."

I don't know anything about Tresiba but I was advised Lantus could remain in my body for up to 4 days. So you could see some lows for a few more days.

I hope you and Mike have many happy days together in the years to come.
 
Haha. Thank you Helen. My DSN said not to worry too much for the first few days. Loving the jelly babies last night thou
 
A brave new world for you, mate, everyone here who knows you from other threads knows you'll be able to figure out the ins and outs of it!
 
Hi @porl69 , legend !! A match made in NHS land !! ? Make-over every 3 days ??
Less perforations now so your body is less of a leaky vessel (just a theory) !!
Watch the tubing, avoid the door knobs and if you need a suspect for pump misbehaviour
- they say cannula is number one!!
 
Mel dCP said:
Woohoo! Got that ever present feeling you’ve forgotten something REALLY IMPORTANT?
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Yeah.....last night I was looking for my Tresiba pen and this morning asking my misses where my Fiasp was...first day in 48 years without sticking a needle in is really strange/odd
 
porl69 said:
Yeah.....last night I was looking for my Tresiba pen and this morning asking my misses where my Fiasp was...first day in 48 years without sticking a needle in is really strange/odd
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Hide them well away, except know where they are just in case - confused ? So am I !!
 
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