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leggott

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Well we had my son's first check up since being on the Omnipod pump now for about 6 weeks and although his HBA1C hasn't lowered, it has remained the same at 6.3. I'm really pleased as although there hasn't been an improvement his control is much tighter.

All in all the pump has made our lives much easier, taking away lots of the daily stresses that MDI imposed on us as a family with 3 members with type 1. We have in fact got a trial date booked for my daughter later on this month as our plan is to get her pumping too!
 
Great news. With a HbA1C of 6.3, I would guess you are not going see massive improvements, because it was a pretty good number already. The fact that he is more stable though...thats priceless!
 
I agree with what sugar2 has said. I think your a1c is extremely good so only get it lower if your consultant or dsn advises.

Good news that your daughter will start pumping. What about hubby?
 
That's a fantastic result leggott :) Considering that will include the pump setup time where readings may not have been ideal that is really very good. How has the pump affected the early morning problems that you were experiencing, has it solved those sorts of issues for you? I know it's helped us tremendously with overnight and early morning. So pleased to hear your daughter too is going to be set up, I hope it goes equally well for her, I'm sure it will.
 
Thanks guys. Yes, it is a good HBA1c and I don't really want it much lower.

Overnight much better, but we seem to be tweaking basal every week or so as we get it just about right and then he starts going higher again.

Yes, my hubby is very interested in getting an Omnipod. He has however excellent control (which he works hard to achieve), so it will probably be a struggle to get one. He does however do a lot of running as much as 16 miles at a time, so a pump would allow him the flexibility or reducing basal, rather than having to constantly eat jelly babies. He also travels a lot as part of his job, so a pump would make this easier. He is however a creature of habit and having done injections for over 25 years now I think he's a little afraid of change although he wouldn't admit to it. I think once we get our daughter pumping then he might have a word with his Dr about it.

I have to say that I've been so impressed with the Omnipod. We haven't any problems at all. My son swims 4 times a week at the moment and one has never come off and sometimes he's been in the pool for a hour. We had one high reading of 25mmol just before school lunch one day. I bolused for his meal along with a correction and we tested one hour later and he was down to 7mmol. I can only assume that there had been an air bubble which caused the high. This has been our only blip and it must of been our error when priming. He has only knocked one pod off in the 6 weeks, which is pretty good for a 6 year old and all pods apart from 1 and of course the one he knocked off have lasted the full 3 days. The pod only takes a few minutes to change and I think my son could easily do it if I let him.
 
Great news :)

It's always good to know persistent hard work pays off.

although no change in numbers, if you know the highs and low's are less and less then you know your doing brilliantly.

Hope all goes well when you daughter starts pumping too :)
 
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