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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Emotions Real Life
Tags: insulin pump
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I'm still at the point where I check myself out in the mirror (or storefront reflection) every chance I get just so I can see what I look like with my pump on. Yes, I'm in love.
I don't, though, feel this overwhelming sense of 'why didn't I do this sooner'. It could be that life on shots is still fresh in my mind. A year from now I may be saying something different, though. Don't get me wrong, I'm completely head over heals for Toohey and really don't want to go back to MDI. I guess what I'm saying is that I don't have a tremendous sense of relief.
I've had just one bad cannula, which resulted in a blood sugar of 508. I've since adjusted my insertion technique.
I've yet to meet a doorknob that reached out and grabbed my tubing or encounter pharmacy techs who question my need for so much insulin or so many test strips. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Real Life
Tags: adhesive injections insulin pump occlusion OminPod
Views: 4670
There was the researching, and the chats with the doc,. There was the mental tug-o-war between my daily injection comfort zone and my need for more flexibility, and now, like the quickness of a self-inserting cannula, I am pumping insulin by way of the OmniPod. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: frustrations with the pump going off the pump Lantus and Humalog
Views: 763
I started using a pump back in October of 2007. It was a rough and terribly rocky start. The pump company wasn't helpful and left me stranded in the dark with this new technology. There were moments that it left me sobbing over the phone to my mother, claiming that I was seconds from throwing the expensive device against the wall. My A1c climbed from 6.9 to 7.6.
After about six months of that and some help from the online community, I finally got the pump closer to being stabilized to my life. It still wasn't pretty. My A1c plateaued around 7.3 and 7.4. I couldn't seem to make the pump fit with my life, despite what everyone was saying. Apparently, I wasn't as stable as I needed to be with my schedule.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Relationships Complications Emotions Real Life
Tags: insulin pump type 1 Type 2
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Last week I was attending a 3 day Leadership Training course at a facility outside of Las Vegas. All 30 of the attendees were strangers to one another and all from different industries from all over the country! I was very nervous about how I was going to do after finding out so many of these people were owners, vice presidents, and upper management for their companies. I was not sure how I would hold up around all these professionals!
We got our room assignments and I knew we would be staying in small dorm rooms. They were more like hotel rooms with 2 bunk beds in them. I was lucky enough to get a bottom bunk so my night time visits to the rest room would not wake up my bunk partner as much as jumping down and climbing back up would have. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Emotions Real Life
Tags: adhesive Cannula itch OmniPod site change
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Three days, or until the insulin is all used up - that is how long an OmniPod is to be worn for. Before pumping, I was unsure if the scheduled three day replacement interval was going to be a nuisance. I even pondered the idea of trying to sneak in an extra day on the pods- so long as there was enough insulin stowed away in them. Well, that notion, along with a little of my patience, consistently scurries away when I near the end of a pod cycle, and the three day itch sets in. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Emotions Real Life
Tags: insulin pump insurance
Views: 1139
It's finally here: Jan. 1, 2008. There's really nothing all that significant about this day. I mean, it's the start of a new year and everything, but other than a day off from work there's nothing that special about today.
Except that today marks the first day of my new insurance coverage. Which means that as soon as I receive my new insurance card, I'll be calling insulin pump companies and fielding sales calls. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management insulin pump
Views: 713
Elizabeth commented on yesterday's Pump Nostalgia post, saying she has been type 1 for 38 years and has in the past resisted the idea of going on a pump. She wants to know what I find so thrilling about it.
For starters, and probably the biggest things for me, it's the precision and the convenience. As for precision there are a couple of aspects: I don't have to conform to a certain number of carbs to match my insulin:carb ratio. For example, like many people, I am more insulin resistant in the morning, so my insulin:carb ratio is lower. So if I'm having 45 carbs and my insulin:carb ratio is 1:12 and my sugar is within target, I can't take 3.75 units with an insulin pen. So I either have to decrease or increase the number of carbs or the amount of insulin and deal with the consequences later.
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Categories: Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Emotions Real Life
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Views: 884
Imagine my surprise and delight first-thing Wednesday morning when I saw an email from our human resources rep giving us a link to print out temporary insurance ID cards. Maybe I'll still wait a few days until I start in on the pump campaign, I thought to myself. Yeah, right. The world's most impatient person wait a few days? I don't think so.
So after registering online and signing in, I searched and searched and searched to no avail to find specific benefits information on the company's Web site regarding preferred diabetes supplies and/or insulin pumps. Nada. I didn't really want to bug the company on my second day of coverage about this major medical device, but damnit I'm impatient. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Real Life
Tags: expenses insurance OmniPod
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Jumping into the world of pumping is no simple task. And I don’t mean that it is hard to get an insulin pump. The hard part is picking through the available pump companies, deciding which one suits your lifestyle, and finding a way to pay for it. If you live in Duckburg and own a bank vault full of coins, you can pay the thousands of dollars for up-front costs and hundreds monthly for a pump. But for the rest of us, health insurance is the only avenue to an insulin pump.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Real Life
Tags: A1c results endo visit
Views: 713
Friday's endo appointment was a solo affair. Susanne stayed home with my little one who had suddenly come down with a fever. I don't like going solo. I like having Susanne there with me for these visits. We're a good team. We help finish each other's sentences. Also, you never know if an endo or a CDE is going to get a little nutty with the accusatory tones, etc. so, it's nice to know someone's got your back.
And if a knife fight broke out, I'd want Susanne there so that I could hide behind her.
The ride into Philadelphia went as usual. I got really lost, got stuck in awful traffic and made it to our appointment about an hour late. It doesn't take much for me to get lost in Philadelphia. I still don't know the city very well. This time, a detour did me in. I gave Charlie my camera and he documented the car ride.
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