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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kitedoc" data-source="post: 1815451" data-attributes="member: 468714">Thank you [USER=162716]@suk[/USER]. I agree that the pump takes away a lot of guesswork. I must say that it sure improves hypo awareness and I am ready to complain that now is too acute ! I start to feel the beginning of one sometimes when the finger prick reading is still at 4 mmol/l ( I think the level is falling quickly ) But that is a small whinge!!.I understand research now shows that the level of diabetic control in the patient's first 10 years is the most crucial to development or not of diabetic complications later. My specialist is happy for me now, this far along, to be no lower than a HBA1C of 48 and less than 60, as he finds the lower the HBA1C the more likely hypos are to happen.My other 'pump thing' is that I find the last 20 units in the reservoir/syringe does not work effectively compared to the rest of the insulin in  that lot. My Diabetes nurse thinks that somehow I have partially stripped the thread on the screw which drives the plunger down. So in that last 20 units the amount 'pushed in' is not accurate. So, until I am due for a new pump (which will be a Tandem or Medtronic as Animas is no longer making pumps) I shall need to discard the last 20 units  ( my nurse will not allow me to recycle it into the next reservoir!!Best Wishes !!  And a saying about perfection: There is no rest for the wicked and even less for the righteous (all tongue in cheek of course )!</blockquote>

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