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LolsBarwick

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I am 15 and I was diagnosed when I was 11 months old with type 1. I have just been for a check up and my HBA1C is 9.1, I have been given the opportunity to go on a pump, however I have a few concerns with using cannular and it wearing it all the time.

Can any users of the insulin pump give me advice, such as it is uncomfortable to wear? And difficult to handle?



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I've only just gone on a pump and after only the first day using it would never go back on mdi. Not uncomfortable at all don't feel the cannula :) was funny at first having to carry it round but get a suitable clip/ strap and its fine. Better control and easy to disconnect / re connect for showers, excercise etc. will need to put alot of effort in and test regular at first to get allthe ratios right but well worth it :)

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Can ask, no harm in that. For me I struggled with too many hypos in the day as the basal couldn't be adjusted for excercise, even eating extra carbs was a problem. Also had a strong dawn phenomanan, so would rise rapidly in the early hours.

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Hi, I find it really comfortable to be honest I sometimes forget it's attached to me as something seperate it just feels like another bit of me. The only uncomfortable bit for me is peeling the sticky bit off or if I've put the cannula in somewhere to muscly and sensitive. I definitely wouldn't go back onto injections they were far more unconfortable incomparison, I also have a lot better control. Now that I know how all my basals and boluses work I can get away with testing less as well (I average about 4 on a normal day instead of about 15 on mdi).
Mo, there are some guidelines of who can be reccomended for a pump usually; HbA1c of more than 8.5%, hypos that need assistance or a great fear of hypos, people who do shift work or have an unusual working patterns. It depends where you live with how easy it is to get one, some clinics are really pro pump and give them to people who want to get better control but don't nessecarily fit the guidelines and some clinics are quite anti pump and don't have many people on them and aren't keen to encourage people to consider it, that and they don't have the staff that are trained properly.
Good luck to both of you
 
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