rstonepal
Well-Known Member
- Messages
- 57
- Location
- Mira Mesa, CA
- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Pump
- Dislikes
- Diabetic Educators, people who do not listen, people who do not actively try to make their situation better, people who think I am in their textbook, people who think I am a standard T1D.
I have been on an insulin pump since 2000. I was on a Medtronic pump until 2015 when I switched to a Tandem Pump. I began using my Dexcom CGM in 2013. I was diagnosed T1D at 1 month old, after constant crying, wetting, sweating and vomiting. I grew up just knowing there was a better way to exist with my condition, specifically, more efficient ways of testing my sugars and more efficient ways to take insulin. I have those. The really cool thing is still on the horizon, an external pancreas! My CGM and pump working together!
One thing that has kind of happened but not as I think it should, super fast acting insulin. I understand why we are trying to create extremely long acting insulins, I will never go back onto one of them. Everyone may disagree, I feel I have more control over my glucose with faster acting insulin. Plus, long insulins are not used in pumps that I am aware of. Through 51 years of use of foreign insulin, I developed Diabetic Gasteroparesis, DGP, or, digestive paralysis. It can take up to 3 days for me to digest anything. Since I am never sure when the carbs are going to hit, it is very difficult to time my insulin doses ahead of time, thus, I would like a very fast insulin that reacts as soon as it is in my body. I only take Novolog. I have very bad reactions to Humalog. I noticed when I do a carb dose and a corrective dose at the same time, my sugar starts dropping within 5 minutes. When I only carb dose, it takes 45 minutes + to react. And no, I am not exaggerating nor am I embellishing. I have repeatedly documented this with the CGM. If my sugar is rising, I now use my corrective, basal to deliver my insulin.
Has any other pumper noticed this? I have asked everyone at Dexcom, my husband is a Software Engineer there. I have asked everyone I can contact at Tandem. Everyone tells me this makes no sense. I know it does not, but it works for me in this manner.
One thing that has kind of happened but not as I think it should, super fast acting insulin. I understand why we are trying to create extremely long acting insulins, I will never go back onto one of them. Everyone may disagree, I feel I have more control over my glucose with faster acting insulin. Plus, long insulins are not used in pumps that I am aware of. Through 51 years of use of foreign insulin, I developed Diabetic Gasteroparesis, DGP, or, digestive paralysis. It can take up to 3 days for me to digest anything. Since I am never sure when the carbs are going to hit, it is very difficult to time my insulin doses ahead of time, thus, I would like a very fast insulin that reacts as soon as it is in my body. I only take Novolog. I have very bad reactions to Humalog. I noticed when I do a carb dose and a corrective dose at the same time, my sugar starts dropping within 5 minutes. When I only carb dose, it takes 45 minutes + to react. And no, I am not exaggerating nor am I embellishing. I have repeatedly documented this with the CGM. If my sugar is rising, I now use my corrective, basal to deliver my insulin.
Has any other pumper noticed this? I have asked everyone at Dexcom, my husband is a Software Engineer there. I have asked everyone I can contact at Tandem. Everyone tells me this makes no sense. I know it does not, but it works for me in this manner.
