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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Katharine" data-source="post: 10194" data-attributes="member: 7958">I was offered an insulin pump if I was prepared to pay for it. £5,000 up front and £1,000 a year in disposables. The pump is programmed to stop after five years and you have to buy a new one. In the end we didn't go for it. Why?painful to insert. I never got used to it. I couldn't bear sticking it in my belly. Could stick it in my fat above my bum but it came out when pulling my knickers up and down. The adhesive never lasted more than 18 hours. If we had got over the insertion problems we may have gone further but the game was a bogey just with the insertions.Other reasons:ketoacidosis occurs more frequentlyAbcesses and scarring occurs more frequentlyWe still need to have all the other gear too incase of pump failureAll the stuff you need to have to change the pump looked too much to carry aboutyou have to wear the pump almost all the timeVery good results on MDI with three sorts of insulin to "mimic" a pump.You are talking £2,000 a year minimum. To pay that I would need to earn £3,000 a year.</blockquote>

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