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Insulin pump concerns

Angela_T

Angela_T

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
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Insulin
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Spiders
I have been asked if want to go on course then get the insulin pump but I don't like the idea of something attached to me all day it will make me feel unnatural like a robot or something plus I like to be in control of my own body and know that I was the one who put them units in my body sounds mad lol but that's how I feel at the moment with the new insulin pump.
Angela T
 
Angela_T said:
Your right and I feel that they have designed the pump for this main reason. I have been asked if want to go on course then get the insulin pump but I don't like the idea of something attached to me all day it will make me feel unnatural like a robot or something plus I like to be in control of my own body and know that I was the one who put them units in my body sounds mad lol but that's how I feel at the moment with the new insulin pump.
Angela T
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Felt exactly the same as you about a insulin pump, but once you start on one you begin to realise that the pro's of using a pump far outweigh the con's @Angela_T

On a pump you still have control of how many units you put in your body just the same as you do on MDI, at any point you can change your basal rates and can even cancel a bolus delivery before it's been fully administered, you can even suspend the pump from delivering insulin in times of an emergency so you are still in control of your insulin doses.
 
noblehead said:
Felt exactly the same as you about a insulin pump, but once you start on one you begin to realise that the pro's of using a pump far outweigh the con's @Angela_T

On a pump you still have control of how many units you put in your body just the same as you do on MDI, at any point you can change your basal rates and can even cancel a bolus delivery before it's been fully administered, you can even suspend the pump from delivering insulin in times of an emergency so you are still in control of your insulin doses.
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Ok thank you I will think about it then thank you :) .Angela T
 
Angela_T said:
Ok thank you I will think about it then thank you :) .Angela T
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I know all my troubles are to do with my past but now I have been good for a while but still paying for my past events when I was younger will it ever get better I wonder. I have Diabetic Neuropathy and ever wonder if it will ever get better it's been 5mths now and still going I'm still fighting. Once you have had years of rubbish in your body I keep thinking how does it flush out or does it stay in your blood system? I just want to be clear of smoke in the body gave up nearly a year now still feel body probably not still clear and use to drink a lot few years back god knows what my blood is like but now been good it's taking ages to get bk to normal how long do I have to suffer from my past mistakes and for my body to be clean. Or will it ever be clean. Recent Diagnosis Diabetic Neuropathy that keeps me up in pain most nights. Angela T
 
Angela_T said:
I have been asked if want to go on course then get the insulin pump but I don't like the idea of something attached to me all day it will make me feel unnatural like a robot or something plus I like to be in control of my own body and know that I was the one who put them units in my body sounds mad lol but that's how I feel at the moment with the new insulin pump.
Angela T
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The pump is not plug and play it only delivers what you tell it. I don't even notice my pump, even after half a day on it I had to keep checking to make sure it was still there and was after being on injections for well over 40 years. You will feel nervous to start with and want to keep checking it all the time but after awhile the novelty wears off and it's just there.
 
You might also like to think about it as you having more control. If you take your basal by injection, you're not controlling how fast/slow that basal is being released. It's sitting there and doing its thing and you can't make it release less for exercise (just one example). So actually the pump gives you control that you don't have with injections :)

I don't feel like a robot : D My pump sits on my belt today, but I dont see it as anything different than a pager or an mp3 player. In fact, people usually mistake it for one of those : D

Don't worry - I'm sure you'll be ok :)
 
Do you have to ask your GP if you would like to go on a pump as I have been thinking of it too. I have been type 1 for 43 years thanks
Sorry for being so dim
 
Joyous said:
Do you have to ask your GP if you would like to go on a pump as I have been thinking of it too. I have been type 1 for 43 years thanks
Sorry for being so dim
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You need to ask your consultant or DSN. If you have neither then ask GP for a referral, you need to meet the NICE criteria for a pump though.
 
Thank you for that, where can you access the NICE criteria apart from asking DSN or GP? Or do you know it? :rolleyes:
 
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