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Pump Pouches/Belts

rockape37

rockape37

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I and i dare say I'm not alone am thinking of using a pump pouch. What i would like to know is how people wear them including pros and cons both from a Male prospective and Female prospective.

I'm in favour of the Hid in multiway type your views please.

Regards

Martin
 
Just copying/pasting/adding to my other post into here, @rockape37 - you are not having deja vu!

I have four pump belts - I have a white Hid-In one, and a black one the same that I wear most of the time, and another, also the same but which I have adjusted to a little tighter, for running. Those are all from http://www.hid-in.com/

For sleeping in I have a much looser SPI-belt, which is fine for night (looser pocket so easier to hoik pump out at night if it needs fiddling with - during the day though I don't go near the pump itself as I use solely the handset - I use an Insight pump, which for me needs no fiddling with during the day) - https://spibelt.com/shop/spibelt/large-pocket-spibelt/ - I got it from a sports shop, and there are all sorts of similar products around though (Nike, Ron Hill, you name it!).

But for daytime full on comfort snug fitting pumpery I would SO recommend Hid-In! There is nothing to rub or jiggle or get in the way - the SPI mentioned above has a big big clip to do it up with, but the Hid-In has an almost invisible and completely not-get-in-the-way-able very secure catch. Highly recommended! Very adjustable, although once you've got the right length you might just want to leave it be (the reason I have one for exercise and one for everyday - plus one in the drawer - is so I don't need to be changing the length for different uses).

I love wearing my pump above my waist, ie not in my pocket, because of not wanting to be having to be careful of it and the hosepipe - or even be aware of them - when in the bathroom.......
 
I must say that i wouldn't want to wear my pump around my waist. I tend to cover my canular which is in my stomach area if I'm sqeezing by things and don't really want to.have to do the same for my pump.

Regards

Martin
 
I use a 640 so need access to the pump and therefore wear it on my belt.

When paying cricket I have been using a SPI belt, which has worked really well and kept the pump solidly where I want it.
 
Ditto @rockape37 , apart from when running, and that's so I can use my chest for breathing! (up to 40 mins, then I move the belt back up to my chest afterwards). Actually I wear it just a little lower than my shorts waistband, almost on my hips, and snug.

I have the nighttime one slung very loosely indeed around my hips, much lower than waist and nowhere near cannula. And that's only so I don't have to worry about carrying it around if I get up in the night.

On the couple of occasions I've had it below my trouser waistband I've tripped over it when erm in the loo. Pain in the a$$.........

Like you I'm sure I couldn't have the actual belt anywhere near the cannula - owwwww!

:)
 
rockape37 said:
I and i dare say I'm not alone am thinking of using a pump pouch. What i would like to know is how people wear them including pros and cons both from a Male prospective and Female prospective.

I'm in favour of the Hid in multiway type your views please.

Regards

Martin
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Hi - I love the Hid-in belts & also have a black & white one. I use these all the time kind of waist/hip area with shirts/trousers covering them. I also have a bra clip pouch from funky pumpers which I wear when wearing address. HTH
 
It's an interesting discussion really. If I was using a pump without the CGM link up, I'd go for a patch pump, as I don't see any benefit to a tubed pump that needs to be hidden away and therefore having to wear something (that to me is) relatively uncomfortable to hide it.
 
tim2000s said:
It's an interesting discussion really. If I was using a pump without the CGM link up, I'd go for a patch pump, as I don't see any benefit to a tubed pump that needs to be hidden away and therefore having to wear something (that to me is) relatively uncomfortable to hide it.
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For me a pouch is merely for comfort of wearing the pump and also access. At the moment i wear mine around my neck on an Id card lanyard, it serves it's purpose but can be annoying when it moves around and gets twisted and somtimes ends up upside down.
A pouch for me means stability and not a means to hide it away.
I have never hidden myself away taking injections and won't do the same when i have to check my pump or enter a carb value etc.
Regards
Martin
 
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Just exchanged my 640g back to a Combo as I always wear mine on my arm -night and day.....just under a tubigrip to keep it secure.. I can't have a pump that I have to wear elsewhere andthe Combo for me was only option as the Insight still does not have the stainless steel cannulas that I need. I have to have a pump that has full remote access to bolus. I can not cope with faffing around taking a pump off to do that no matter how nice the pump may be..
For me, its arm or nothing.
 
rockape37 said:
For me a pouch is merely for comfort of wearing the pump and also access.
A pouch for me means stability and not a means to hide it away.
I have never hidden myself away taking injections and won't do tge same when i have to check my pump or enter a carb value etc.
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This is how I feel too. I wear my pump in a pouch out of the way not to have it hidden, but to be able to wear it really comfortably somewhere where it means I'm not having to, say, yank it out of my pocket whenever I need to have a wee and in so doing potentially getting myself tangled up or dropping it. For me in the daytime this means anywhere above trouser top level, in a Hid-in. At night I either sling it in my much looser Spibelt or just have it free range.

I count myself very lucky to have an Insight, which means I don't actually have to access the pump itself to tell it to do something. I do do some things straight on the pump, sometimes - for instance today I'm at home poorly and am twiddling with elevated basal rates due to this infection, and I can easily get to it to press a few buttons and sort that out, especially if I'm under a blanket on the sofa and can't be faffed with reaching my arm out to grab the handset.

Given that I don't ever eat anything without testing first, which is something done on the handset, I always do the bolus calculation on the handset, and insulin delivery therefore also with the handset. Pump stays pouched-up and cosy, no fiddling, happy Snapsy.

I am finding, as time goes on (10 months pumping next week!) that more and more I've got the confidence to use either 'half' of the system. But I'm so glad I have the option to do this stuff remotely.

:)
 
Snapsy said:
This is how I feel too. I wear my pump in a pouch out of the way not to have it hidden, but to be able to wear it really comfortably somewhere where it means I'm not having to, say, yank it out of my pocket whenever I need to have a wee and in so doing potentially getting myself tangled up or dropping it. For me in the daytime this means anywhere above trouser top level, in a Hid-in. At night I either sling it in my much looser Spibelt or just have it free range.

I count myself very lucky to have an Insight, which means I don't actually have to access the pump itself to tell it to do something. I do do some things straight on the pump, sometimes - for instance today I'm at home poorly and am twiddling with elevated basal rates due to this infection, and I can easily get to it to press a few buttons and sort that out, especially if I'm under a blanket on the sofa and can't be faffed with reaching my arm out to grab the handset.

Given that I don't ever eat anything without testing first, which is something done on the handset, I always do the bolus calculation on the handset, and insulin delivery therefore also with the handset. Pump stays pouched-up and cosy, no fiddling, happy Snapsy.

I am finding, as time goes on (10 months pumping next week!) that more and more I've got the confidence to use either 'half' of the system. But I'm so glad I have the option to do this stuff remotely.

:)
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It would be nice if i could do things remotely with the 640, but then its still a lot less hassel using pens etc in my opinon and better BG control.

Get well soon Snapsy.

Martin
 
Thanks Martin - and I'm only so in love with my pump because it's my first, so I have no experience of others and their own individual and different features (although today's news about the Medtronic MiniMed applying to be licensed by the FDA in the States might well sway my 'wannabe' allegiance in the future!).

Not dissing any variations of this fabulous kit of ours - they are all different, as indeed are we! Take my Insight fanfare with a pinch of salt - I'm just a very keen newbie happy with a new toy. Hope I haven't caused any offence.

And I share your view that pumping is less hassle than pens - and hypos for me now are a rarity, because on MDI I was using far too much insulin. I love not having to eat ALL the time - I think that's my biggest bonus with pumping.

:happy:
 
Snapsy said:
Thanks Martin - and I'm only so in love with my pump because it's my first, so I have no experience of others and their own individual and different features (although today's news about the Medtronic MiniMed applying to be licensed by the FDA in the States might well sway my 'wannabe' allegiance in the future!).

Not dissing any variations of this fabulous kit of ours - they are all different, as indeed are we! Take my Insight fanfare with a pinch of salt - I'm just a very keen newbie happy with a new toy. Hope I haven't caused any offence.

And I share your view that pumping is less hassle than pens - and hypos for me now are a rarity, because on MDI I was using far too much insulin. I love not having to eat ALL the time - I think that's my biggest bonus with pumping.

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Thats what my nurse said to me... If people only get choice of one pump they will like that one pump because they are grateful to have it and because they've not had anything else to try.. Which is where I could not handle the 640g not having a fully operational bolus and not going on my arm.

People are happy to get a pump and like what they are given generally.. Because they don't know any different.

However, if I was a newbie to pumping and got given a choice I would not have been able to make a decision without knowing the ins and outs of them as I do now...

I am going to write to Accuchek next week and give them the positives that Medtronic do have compared to the Insight and Combo (had both) so that in the future they may incorporate just another couple tweaks for the absolute best remote controlled pumps. I know Minimed are going through FDA but Accuchek are only soon bringing out a cgm for the insight...so they aren't quite up there with medtronic,
 
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