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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jopar" data-source="post: 182906" data-attributes="member: 11712">The insulin-pumpers forum is one of the best places alongside <a href="http://www.input.me.uk" target="_blank">www.input.me.uk</a>The insulin-pumpers does have an e-mail list, where you can ask all the question you need concerning pumps..I've been pumping for 3 years, and I've never looked back..  I had to fight for 3 years and the two above website were a great help with information and support to fight my battle!I have never found pumping harder than MDI the beginign sorting out my basals was intensive but I cracked them pretty quickly but I had done several years researching pumps so knew where my issues lay with control on MDI (sensitivity to insulin and DP's) and knew the theory behind them, via books and talking etc with members on the insulin-pumpers mailing list..Whether you need to change cannulars every 48 or 72 hours in the main will depend on whether you using steel (48 hours) or teflon (72 hours) some people find that they got to change sooner because they get a reaction to them being in the body..  I change my cartridge when it's empty so for me about ever 17 days, but again some find that their insulin can go off slightly causing control issues, so need to change sooner...  But it doesn't seem to effect me but if the wheather really gets warm I will half fill my cartridge to cut down the time it's in use just in case!</blockquote>

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