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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ChrisWoodward" data-source="post: 554485" data-attributes="member: 106875">Hi all, Got given an insulin pump last week but ever since I have had it my BG has been even more unpredictable. I know that it takes a little while to setup and I know all the best practise house keeping for it like how not to get air bubbles and best place for the infusion sites etc but I'm not finding it to be a benefit at all, it seems that my BG readings are all over the place keep waking up with extreme highs 25+ the carb ratio I was using before now seems completely wrong sometimes and fine other times like lunch today for example: Pre Meal: 6.3 68g of carbs 3.4u of insulin 1:20 ratioPost Meal: 16.4 :-S Yesterdays lunch went fine and I ate exactly the same thing. How long does it take to set one of these up? In your opinion is it even worth having if my pens gave me more stable BG readings? I was given a pump because my last Hba1c was 66 or 8.2%, this was put down to dawn phenomenon because a normal night for me is like this: Bedtime 5-63am 7-87am 25+ but the pump isnt helping this at all and I dont see how it could because sometimes my sugar levels in the morning are fine so we cant increase my basal rates to try to cope with it because otherwise I could run in to serious problems on the 2 or 3 days a month that it doesnt happen to me.</blockquote>

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