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Clobo

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Hi there, I have just been approved for a pump and have my start date on Wednesday the 5th of September. Does anyone know if they start you straight on insulin as I have seen a few people mention that they are using saline for a few days? I attended a course for a week and carbohydrate count and work on an insulin to carb ratio with correction doses. Any answers would be great :)
 
Hia - I live in Wales and they gave me insulin for a period of a week initialy. I was then given a choice of continuing with it until I was happy to go onto insulin. I think a week is probably about right though. I don't know if they do this in all other areas of GB or whether some LHBs go straight onto insulin? Hope someone else will come on soon to confirm their experience. Good luck with the pump.
 
Clobo said:
Hi there, I have just been approved for a pump and have my start date on Wednesday the 5th of September. Does anyone know if they start you straight on insulin as I have seen a few people mention that they are using saline for a few days? I attended a course for a week and carbohydrate count and work on an insulin to carb ratio with correction doses. Any answers would be great :)
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Dumb question I know, but here goes.
How the heck do you think any off us know what your clinic does? Perhaps give it a bit of thought and then use some comon sense and ask your team what happens. :roll:
 
Thank you riri.

As its the weekend and there not in I thought it would be quicker to get and answer on here, so there's no need to be rude
 
Hi Clobo

In our experience, James had training in inserting a cannular, we did two weeks at home inerting a cannula then on Friday just gone we went to clinic and was set up on pump straightaway on insulin. There was no saline experience, but when I have read other posts, there does seem to be different ways of starting.

Hope this helps.

p.s. So far James is coping quite well and we are down at the clinic again tomorrow. There is a lot of testing so be aware we are having to do 12pm 3am 6am and every 2 hours during the day, but it is worth it if we get the right results.

Yvonne x
 
Hi Yvonne,

Thank you very much!

Looks like people do everything differently!

I have done a cannular change and my appointment is for 4 hours on wednesday so fingers crossed everything is done there and then.

I'm currently testing every 2 hours at the moment and have been for some time so dreading having to wake up in the night to test.

I hope so and good luck to James with his pump and thanks again :)
 
Hi

I already knew a fair bit about insulin pumps so felt fairly confident in using insulin straight away so that is what I did.... went to hospital to pick up pump, saw the pump rep for 1.5hrs to go over the basics and then came home again with the pump filled up with insulin and that was that.............
 
Hi there
I had a trial for 4 days befire my dsn applied for funding ( witj saline) then when i was approved i wad put on salune for 2 days before having insulin. Its just to make sure ur confident eith using the pump and its settings. I know everywhere soes tjings diferent but i live in south west essex and thats how they do it. Ive been on pump for aboout 4 weeks now and i must say its been great so far. Tales a bit of time to get dises right but will be woryj it in the end.
Sirry for any miss prints u had vitrectomy on tjurs and my dight is preyty bad right niw so i know im probably making loads of typos.
 
Different clinic's have different approaches..

Some will use saline to get you started, others like my clinic will use insulin from the word go..

Starting with insulin wasn't daunting for me, because I had done plenty of research into pump therapy before starting, so it was such as 'unknown' to me...

I was told to disconnect the pump and play with the controls and not worry too much about wasting insulin, while doing it..

Best thing to do is ask your clinic what their starting off procedure is, and if they do start with insulin, they you need some further advice concerning your last background dose, which is likely to be, if your background is once a day, you half your dose, if you inject twice a day, then your last background injection will be the night before you start, and you miss your morning injection...

I was lucky here, as I injected twice a day, and when I started pumping, was 11.30am in the morning which was exactly the same time I would have injected my morning background!
 
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