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Wedding Advice

Soph01

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
So this question is aimed at the ladies...
I am getting married next year and I am currently on the pump and love it. Just wondered if anyone has advice for the big day - stick to the pump, use my pens, any ideas where to attach said pump and what people did with their metres and kit?
Think I'm over worrying!!
 
Probably depends on your dress. Is there space for pump? Could you wear a Libre for the wedding? Or have a handbag? Or a pocket sewn into dress?
 
Personally I wouldn’t do anything differently so keep on pumping and find a space to put it in the dress, switching to anything else could be too stressful and worrying about bg levels on your big day would then be an issue, also as diakat has said using a libre would help hugely too as you can do quick scans to check your levels are fine without using a meter.
 
Hi @Soph01,
Far be it appropriate for a male to give advice (and I am not an agony aunt from a newspaper column), and with the disclosure that I have never worn a dress of any description, I have heard of one bride cleverly situating her insulin pump in an ostentatious hat, another by, um, augmenting bust size to cover and equalise the pump 'bulk', another used an opulent sash or belt. Making a sleigh to carry one's pump in a bridal train will be too testing for the pump and its connection to you and is best avoided as a strategy. But your pump attached to your upper arm, with a device similar to a mobile phone carrier under puffed sleeves is a possibility. Attaching the pump to your wedding garter could be disastrous and best avoided. Use of a second garter for attaching a pump is possible, so long as you remember which garter is going to be thrown !!
If the pump is easily detachable, that can be advantageous later. Certain activity, usually nocturnal, is rated energy- and glucose-burning-wise as the equivalent of running 100 metres.
But adrenaline and caffeine raise BSL (in most people), and alcohol prevents one's liver form releasing glucose to combat a hypo, and glucagon injection may not work on that scenario.
Remembering to pack spare reservoir/needle inserts, insulin (long and short-acting), pens, (Glucagon injection )?, battery etc, glucose jelly beans makes for a better after-wedding experience.
Ensure that your husband-to-be, and then husband, is top notch on recognising and managing your hypos, if need be.
Humour is the best medicine for any condition and event. Smile often and well !!!!~
Congratulations !!!
 
I'd say staying on the pump would be easier than changing to pens while managing an already difficult day, food- activity- and emotion-wise. Besides, having to peel yourself out of your dress to inject every time you have a piece of wedding cake and other stuff seems a lot more complicated than using your pump.
Have a wonderful wedding!
 
Thank you for the suggestions My dress has a little wiggle room so I'll see if the streamstress can work her magic and find it a home. I'm not on the Libre but may discuss this at my next appointment
Thanks x
 
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