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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Head-Banger" data-source="post: 346648" data-attributes="member: 57930">Hi, when I first went on to insulin delivered by pump, I was given a chamois leather type holder for the  pump [Accuchek D-Tron Plus] and have slowly accumulated 2 or three ........ either cream or dark blue.I always wear this holder on a 8mm wide 1mm thick cloth strap and slung around my neck so that the pump hangs down [if I let it] to about level with my belly button or lower. I use a 70cm line from pump to tender [cannula].I have done this for about seven years now and the holders are still as good as new.I know that some people would rather strap this holder to their waist-belt or what-have-you but I MUCH prefer having the pump just below or at chest level.Now, that is O.K. for me as a man ... and at seventy-four, nearly, it matters not to me that the pump is giving me a lump in my shirt's breast pocket.It is very convenient for pulling out the pump and ckecking up or putting in instructions.It is rather like having a fob-watch high up in a waistcoat.I always buy shirts with TWO breast pockets nowadays because I also have a pacemaker fitted and so I need to keep the pump sufficiently far [day AND night] away from the implanted device which is just below the shoulder and above my heart.At night I find that a night-shirt is the most comfortable garment to wear to bed and, thanks to my good lady, there are two breast pockets sewn onto those garments.Having the pump held in place on the right hand side of my chest and on a longish strap allows me to slide the pump [in its holder in its pocket] under my right arm-pit and there it is protected from my involuntary movements whilst asleep ... as much as is possible, anyway.This is my first try at using this forum and I hope that I have not made a fool of myself here, but the answer to this problem you pose [and to many others associated with using a pump, pills, glucose meter, etc., etc.] is to experiment until you find what will suit YOU.Of course, you need to approach all experiments from the point of view of "What is safe" but also bearing in mind that NO-ONE ... Doctors and Nurnses included ... knows all the solutions and, as past experience has taught me, they frequently modify their instructions and advice over time as they themselves learn the business of catering for people with different types of Diabetes which, again as time passes, gradually need to be attended to in slightly different ways from earlier in each patient's life.Any Use?Tom</blockquote>

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