Hi all, type 1 for 17 years.
I started on the pump 3 months ago and I’m loving not injecting anymore. The problem I’m having is that I’m struggling to get my ratios right throughout the day to prevent going low or high. My nurse is really good but as I’m in a young adults clinic she hasn’t came across someone with a pump yet so she’s not 100% how to do it. I’ve recently started on metformin to help with my weight and cholesterol which is making me have up to 8 hypos a day which is really impacting me daily but I feel as though I need to take the metformin as I have struggled for a while to lose the weight. I have tried changing my ratios to prevent me from going low but I can’t seem to manage it. I don’t know any other diabetic who can talk me through the ratios when on a pump so I feel lost. I have also had my diabetes eye scan done recently and been diagnosed with maculopathy which has absolutely terrified me my eyesight is getting worse I’m struggling to see at night which is so scary. I have another eye scan on the 12th November but I’m dreading to see if it has progressed any as I will need laser eye surgery and I physically feel sick with worry because it takes 20 minutes just to have eye drops in my eyes as I’m very sensitive near my eyes. I just wanted to write this to ask if anyone has gone through the same situation regarding pump, ratios, hypos and eyesight as I could really do with some help please
Thank you
I started on the pump 3 months ago and I’m loving not injecting anymore. The problem I’m having is that I’m struggling to get my ratios right throughout the day to prevent going low or high. My nurse is really good but as I’m in a young adults clinic she hasn’t came across someone with a pump yet so she’s not 100% how to do it. I’ve recently started on metformin to help with my weight and cholesterol which is making me have up to 8 hypos a day which is really impacting me daily but I feel as though I need to take the metformin as I have struggled for a while to lose the weight. I have tried changing my ratios to prevent me from going low but I can’t seem to manage it. I don’t know any other diabetic who can talk me through the ratios when on a pump so I feel lost. I have also had my diabetes eye scan done recently and been diagnosed with maculopathy which has absolutely terrified me my eyesight is getting worse I’m struggling to see at night which is so scary. I have another eye scan on the 12th November but I’m dreading to see if it has progressed any as I will need laser eye surgery and I physically feel sick with worry because it takes 20 minutes just to have eye drops in my eyes as I’m very sensitive near my eyes. I just wanted to write this to ask if anyone has gone through the same situation regarding pump, ratios, hypos and eyesight as I could really do with some help please
Thank you