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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Piper" data-source="post: 127881" data-attributes="member: 25940">I have been type 1 for 7 yrs, i have other auto immune diseases that dont play well with the diabetes.I have been on two pumps, the first was the medtronic  and the second was the animas made by jonhson & johnson.I was taken off it because i had a hypo during the night, and was still being infused with insulin.I was in a diabetic coma for 2 weeks -not expected to survive or be severly brain damaged.Thankfully the brain damage only amounted to a short term memory problem i had getting much worse- it may sound bad but i could have ended up a vegetative state.I had to fight to get the pump, the 4k for the pumps themselves and the £1700 a year for the infusion sets.I then had a go of the guardian, continuous blood glucose monitoring system- hated it.It was too stressful to insert the sensors that had to last for 3 days and cost about £50 a go.It wasnt comfortable either.Also, when it says its continuous it is not- it tests the blood every ten minutes and actually missed two of my hypos.Pumps are not a perfect device  by any means, until there is a device that can be placed under the skin something like every three months  and no messing around with tubes (all wireless transmitting too) i dont think it is a long term thing for people like me.I would love to try the omnipod- but they are too expensive and until they come down in price we wont see them in this country.The next thing on the agenda  for me is a possible islet transplant which costs over 100k a time:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islet_cell_transplantationI need assistance to survive several times a week- just the day before yesterday was a close callIf the islet transplants turns out to be all its promising ill be looking forward to it.Piper  UK</blockquote>

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