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<blockquote data-quote="ruralweb" data-source="post: 173026" data-attributes="member: 26761"><p>We started on the Medtronic Veo with CGM and initially thought it very good but it soon turned into a nightmare for lots and lots of reasons but the main one was that the controls are all on the pump which is attached to your child - anyone with a child knows whats going to happen. You are constantly hunting for the pump to see the BG reading or to work out the carbs/insulin and all the time your child is trying to do something else. Another reason is the CGM constantly alarms telling you there is a rise/fall rate, warning of high/low etc and it becomes very distracting especially at school when my daughter spent more time managing the pump than doing school work. We had the medtronic nurse visit us as I thought we were doing something seriously wrong but after checking it all she said we were achieving the best results with the pump that she had ever seen and took away our printouts to be used in training other nurses.</p><p></p><p>After three months we gave it back and switched to the Accu check combo which is brilliant and everything I imagined a pump to be. Her HB1c has dropped (with the medtronic it was going up!!) significantly and as it has a remote everything can be done without disturbing her or by her without having to get the pump from under loads of clothing. It also calculates the insulin differently to the medtronic which IMO leads to easier and better BG control.</p><p></p><p>If you want to have a chat about the two pumps DM me and Ill give you my tel number</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ruralweb, post: 173026, member: 26761"] We started on the Medtronic Veo with CGM and initially thought it very good but it soon turned into a nightmare for lots and lots of reasons but the main one was that the controls are all on the pump which is attached to your child - anyone with a child knows whats going to happen. You are constantly hunting for the pump to see the BG reading or to work out the carbs/insulin and all the time your child is trying to do something else. Another reason is the CGM constantly alarms telling you there is a rise/fall rate, warning of high/low etc and it becomes very distracting especially at school when my daughter spent more time managing the pump than doing school work. We had the medtronic nurse visit us as I thought we were doing something seriously wrong but after checking it all she said we were achieving the best results with the pump that she had ever seen and took away our printouts to be used in training other nurses. After three months we gave it back and switched to the Accu check combo which is brilliant and everything I imagined a pump to be. Her HB1c has dropped (with the medtronic it was going up!!) significantly and as it has a remote everything can be done without disturbing her or by her without having to get the pump from under loads of clothing. It also calculates the insulin differently to the medtronic which IMO leads to easier and better BG control. If you want to have a chat about the two pumps DM me and Ill give you my tel number [/QUOTE]
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