Weight loss on insulin pump

Hi @pearceam - I'm really pleased for you - yay to Monday!

I started on a pump just under a year and a half ago. One of the things I noticed really, really quickly was that I was having way fewer hypos. On MDI, despite a lot of micromanaging basal rates and bolus ratios I was very frequently having to 'feed' excess insulin, and I was either snacking all the time or having hypos.

Now I pump, and if I find I'm dropping, I can literally just turn the tap down.

I deal with (much less frequent) hypos by treating with 2 or 3 Glucotabs. Job done. I don't then need a snack as well. Sometimes, if I'm very low (due usually to miscounting carbs and overestimating insulin, in my case) I will lower my basal rate for a period of time.

I can treat hypos with glucose and less insulin, rather than glucose and juice and biscuits and and and etc like I was in the days when I had to 'chase' too much insulin with (too many, usually) carbs.

I lost weight.
I felt better in general.
My HbA1c actually rose slightly, from 42 to 46, as I was hypo way less often.

I have not looked back. I LOVE MY PUMP.

I have control in my life. Not just blood sugar control, but control about what I eat and when, and even IF! (I don't have to eat all the time - whereas until I started pumping, I felt TIED to food).

I'll be thinking of you on Monday! I found it jolly hard work to start with, but once I got to grips with it (which admittedly took me a few weeks - I think it was mainly a confidence thing), oh boy, it was amazing.

Love Snapsy

How's it all going, @pearceam ?

Hi Amy!

Wow, it's all sounding BRILLIANT! And it is making sense, don't worry!

Onwards and upwards! It's hard work to start with but it sounds really really good so far!

All well here - bit low this evening due to a slight miscalculation (exercising at a non-experimented-on-yet time of day). Ooooopsie. Still, I'll know what to do when I do it tomorrow...... I'm now allowed to run (treadmill only, mind!) on my newly-recovered foot, so I DID.

Ha! And I'm going to run again tomorrow, rebel that I am.......

pearceam said:

It's amazing!! I can't believe how weird it is to not inject.

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It's a good weird @pearceam