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Olivia uses a Minimed Paradigm pump - the 715 model. We have had no issues with it (knock wood, turn around three times, go outside and spit). I think I've called the help line once in the last three years.

She uses the Silhouette infusion sites. The angled cannula seems to be better for her. The sites that go straight in would bend and crimp. That's not to say she hasn't had the occasional problem with the Sils, but for the most part, they've been fine.

The last 10 or so site changes, though, have been different. The needle that plunges the cannula into her body (bleurgh) is bending. Really bending, like at a 90 degree angle. And it hurts a lot.
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Olivia uses a Minimed Paradigm pump - the 715 model. We have had no issues with it (knock wood, turn around three times, go outside and spit). I think I've called the help line once in the last three years.

She uses the Silhouette infusion sites. The angled cannula seems to be better for her. The sites that go straight in would bend and crimp. That's not to say she hasn't had the occasional problem with the Sils, but for the most part, they've been fine.

The last 10 or so site changes, though, have been different. The needle that plunges the cannula into her body (bleurgh) is bending. Really bending, like at a 90 degree angle. And it hurts a lot.
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Olivia uses a Minimed Paradigm pump - the 715 model. We have had no issues with it (knock wood, turn around three times, go outside and spit). I think I've called the help line once in the last three years.

She uses the Silhouette infusion sites. The angled cannula seems to be better for her. The sites that go straight in would bend and crimp. That's not to say she hasn't had the occasional problem with the Sils, but for the most part, they've been fine.

The last 10 or so site changes, though, have been different. The needle that plunges the cannula into her body (bleurgh) is bending. Really bending, like at a 90 degree angle. And it hurts a lot.
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This morning I woke up to my pump alarm yelling at me. I turned over and looked at the clock. Having over an hour before I needed to wake up I grabbed my pump and pressed the ESC and ACT buttons to kill the alarm and fell quickly back to sleep. I knew this morning was going to be an infusion set change day so I was not surprised, just annoyed.
No sooner did I go back to sleep that I heard the alarm again. Not normally when you clear the low reservoir alarm you have another 10 units of insulin worth before the alarm goes off again. I reached under the blankets and cleared the alarm again. I don't think I even achieved REM state before my alarm went off and I was up for good. Bummer. (READ MORE)

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I needed a set change last night. I am not one of the good diabetics that always do their set changes the same time of day. When I run out, I change. Anyhow, last night was one of those times.
My kids wanted to play some Nintendo Wii before they had to take their evening showers so I decided that I would change my set first and then we could play. I switched from my left leg to my right leg. Typically I start at the top of my thigh on the far right and then move my way across my thigh until I have to move down and start over. Sort of an infusion set typewriter. (READ MORE)

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Over the weekend I got high. I mean sky high!

 

My infusion set must have been bad because no matter all the bolusing I did nothing would get my blood sugar to come down.

 

I woke up on Saturday morning a little high but was not too concerned. I knew I needed to change my site that morning before leaving for a two and half hour drive away. I had a meeting for a church retreat that I was to be at all day. I changed my site, took some insulin to bring my BG down and headed out.

 

On the way we stopped to pick up breakfast. I check my blood and was higher then I was earlier. I figured it was because of the time I disconnect from my pump to shower and bolus for breakfast and a correction for the high and move on.

 

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I did an insulin pump infusion set site change this morning, by the ubiquitous lamp light on the dresser. My fiance (seven weeks until the wedding!) and I were talking about thresholds for pain and how I don't have much tolerance for emotional pain but my threshold for physical pain is high.
"I know. You can stick yourself with needles all day long but you freak out if you see a spider." He grinned at me.
"I know that needles aren't going to try and crawl on my head at night, that's for sure." (READ MORE)

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Typically, I put in a new infusion site and leave the old site in for a few hours. I rarely have a bad transition. Occasionally, the site will hurt or feel uncomfortable so I replace it with a new one. Even on those occasions, it's immediate so I don't peak from the bad site.

 

But the last two sites have given me some trouble. I'm rotating like normal, still leaving my old site in for at least two hours, and making sure there isn't any pain. I'm still seeing numbers soar into the 200's without a true cause within several hours of replacing my site. And each time, I've replaced the site on the third high reading and come down within a few hours to a normal range.

 

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"Did it hurt real bad?"
"It burned," Charlie said. "It felt like I was on fire."
"Do you think mommy and daddy want to hurt you?"
Charlie nods in the affirmative.
"That would be really mean; like really evil. Do you think mommy and daddy are evil?"
He nods up and down again, dipping his waffle in a small bowl of sugar-free syrup.
The slight smirk tells me he doesn't truly believe that, but it sucks to hear that from your child nonetheless.
That was this morning. Last night we took Charlie to hell and back with two site changes. The first site change was so absolutely horrendous that we just HAD to do it again, the monsters that we are. (READ MORE)

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"Did it hurt real bad?"
"It burned," Charlie said. "It felt like I was on fire."
"Do you think mommy and daddy want to hurt you?"
Charlie nods in the affirmative.
"That would be really mean; like really evil. Do you think mommy and daddy are evil?"
He nods up and down again, dipping his waffle in a small bowl of sugar-free syrup.
The slight smirk tells me he doesn't truly believe that, but it sucks to hear that from your child nonetheless.
That was this morning. Last night we took Charlie to hell and back with two site changes. The first site change was so absolutely horrendous that we just HAD to do it again, the monsters that we are. (READ MORE)

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