Hi
@Kelsie123 ,
Not that I'm telling you what to do, and with apologies for ripping off a well-known advertising slogan: just do it!
I had no idea for years that a pump would be available to me because I didn't obviously fit the guidelines, but I'm so, so glad that I finally gained the confidence to ask about a pump last year. And behold: yes, I did fit the guidelines with a bit of 'head-screwed-on-thinking' by my fabulous DSN.
With the horses, and working on the farm, I think you'll find the pump a really positive and very useful alternative to MDI - if you're dropping, you can knock back your basal rate for a bit to avoid a hypo using the temporary basal rate function (took me a while to get my head around that one, but I use TBRs frequently and can be incredibly flexible as a result). On MDI, basal dosing is a little bit 'sledgehammer' - on a pump, you can make changes to your basal rate with much more flexibility, and for someone as active as yourself I would imagine that a pump would be of huge benefit to you.
I started in October, and haven't looked back. It has been life-changing. After a month, and after two months, I did perhaps think 'hmmm, okay, this is a lot of work, it's going okay I suppose' but since Christmas I have realised what an incredible difference it has made to every single aspect of my life, and I value my pump immensely.
It seemed an awful lot to have to take in, but (in my experience at least) we are not set up on these things without access to support from people with experience of switching patients from MDI to pump therapy, so (again, in my experience) it was much, much less of a 'thing' than I had feared.
And it was fear - indeed, as already mentioned here, fear of the unknown. I'd been injecting for 29 and a half years, and pumping was always going to be a massive re-boot!
I can recommend the book 'Pumping Insulin' - also, 'Think Like a Pancreas' is very good. Pre-pumping I did all the reading I possibly could (and regretted some of the more complex, confusing stuff, actually, because it gave me some - unnecessary, as it turned out - sleepless nights) and despite some confusion I was actually glad to have had access to all that information.
Having this pump is the best pre-30th diaversary (I hate that word!) present I could have wished for.