Insulin Pump Users

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, Guys,
I have forwarded your replies to the poster who asked the other list for help
with her friend. Hope those replies help to get through to her.
Jan

Joan,
I have another Q for you to advise me on from someone else who wants help.
This is a Type 2 Q which I’m not familiar with (Jan):

Yeah,
I got my 38th flu shot in October!! (how positive is that?) I came down with
*something* after my EPO shot 2 wks ago - chills, fever, aches, etc. that
lasted about 5 days. Thought I was getting better and then my 10.5 mo old
granddaughter came for 3 days and was pretty sick - whimpering and of COURSE
I held her. I got that on top of my low resistance.
If my family talked to me, they’d laugh at you saying I focus on the
positive because they think I’m very negative. But, then, they can (and
have) walk away from the DM stuff.
Jan

Janet,
Is the BIG day coming up the 8th? or 9th?
curious Jan

David -

I’m curious about this term "brittle". I’ve always regarded myself as
mostly "normal" - I have my ups and downs and minor problems, but generally
keep good control. And since going on a pump 2 years ago, my control has
been excellent (HbA1c 5.3%, no severe hypos) Then recently two knowledgable
people have suggested - in the nicest possible way - that I am "brittle". I
wonder if the term is coming back into fashion?

I was chewing things over with my endo, and he said that many of his older
type 1’s have very stable bg’s - no dawn effects, no hypo rebounds, no
sudden peaks and troughs, same insulin requirement from day to day. He
suggested that as you get older, the body produces fewer of these
anti-insulin hormones that can make the bg bounce around - the sort of
things that make adolescent control much harder, cause dawn effects, or
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Hi all,

Am getting a pump on 2/2/00 after 48 years if injections. Hve been reading
this page for past 4 week and wonder if anyone could answer a few questions
for me.

I am taking 7 days of work to get pump (3 for training and 4 to get things
working properly) is this long enough - I hope so cause that is all the time
they will give me. Also I have no fat at all on my thighs which most people
seem to say is best place for infusions - I had large dents that I could fit my
fists into in arms and legs by the time I was 18 from injections - dents have
gone but no fat - can I still put infusions there. Aslo find that insulin acts
much slower above the waist with injections because of injections for last 25 or
so years there. Does the same happen with the pump if infusions are put in a
well used site?
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Okay, from what I’ve read, the rapids have a metal needle
that stays in you all the time, and you can keep it in you,
and just change your tubing from the pump to the site? Am I
reading this right?
But, I already put my QR canula in my hip. Is the rapid a
less bulky, less of a button type site? Is this why some
seem to like it better? Why can’t they put the regular
minimed canula in their hip also?
Also, to give their stomach a break, can’t they put the
site into their thigh/leg? Before I got the pump, most of my
injections were in the thigh. Up to 7 a day when I was
pregnant. Fun. Now I’m trying not to use it so much, I’m not
healing there so easily, I’m guessing it’s from all those
years of use!
Also, I’ve been told that you can put the site anywhere you
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