Insulin Pump Users

>really worried that you would be so put off by the early struggles that you
>would decide to go back to injections and miss out on the wonders of pumping!

Janet, you might still be right…I’m waffling back and forth. Last
night was the Night From Hell, requiring a 3am site change which took 45
minutes (by day it takes 10). And I realized that out of the past seven
nights, I’ve had 3am site changes during two plus insufficient sleep all
seven…and it looks like there’s no end in sight.

What I’m thinking is (and PLEASE somebody tell me if I’m wrong!) is:

If I don’t check my sugars at least once each night, I’m risking
ketoacidosis which is horribly dangerous.

So it looks like I have a choice of living without enough sleep (for some
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Edition 3 (includes Humalog) is just coming out on the market this month.
Available at some places now.
Jan

Thanks, Patrick — I needed a laugh!

The shower references made me realize what a long time ago it was that I
worried about missing any basal…for the past week I’ve been incredibly
proud of myself, disconnecting right after one "burst" and showering
faster than ever before in order to reconnect before the next one twelve
minutes later.

If nothing else, the pump will save on hot water bills….

Laurie, heading to the pharmacy tonight to find Uni-Solve and/or Remove

As of Monday it’ll be a week since I started pumping, and so far this is
going a LOT better than I expected — thanks to all you people! Only
one question…right now it seems like the hardest part of doing a site
change (with the Silhouette) is getting the old tape/needle off. I keep
sitting there scraping the edges of the tape, working slowly in toward
the center — anybody know any ways of making that easier?

Laurie, offline till Monday

www.authorspotlights.com/campbell

Hi David, IDDM is by and large a disease of young Caucasians.
Japanese have the lowest rate of any major country
(a Japanese child has about 1000-fold less chance of developing it as
compared to a Finnish child for example),
although Type II has become extremely frequent. This is mentioned in
Joslin and all the other textbooks on DM.
Genetic factors are probably the most important here, as well as some
lifestyle factors such as almost universal
breastfeeding in infancy. In Caucasians at least, DM is associated
with the two common tissue types DR-3 and
DR-4 (99% of diabetics have one or the other, although I am an
exception with neither). DR-3 and DR-4 are much
less common in non-White peoples.

I work as a medical translator in Japan and have my own business. I
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