Insulin Pump Users

My meeting with the nurse at the Milwaukee Diabetes Treatment Center yesterday
went well. She’s already recommended that my doctor go ahead and sign the letter
of medical necessity. It has been initially approved by my insurance, pending
receipt of the prescription and letter. If all goes well, I should be pumping
away in a few weeks.

I’ve decided on the MiniMed.

The Diabetes Treatment Center requires an overnight hospital stay for the
initial training and "installation." I guess that will be okay…is this
typical?

Jonathan Meersman
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Boy, I’m eager for the responses to this one too! I realized last night
while doing a site change that my abdomen (the only area I’ve felt
comfortable using) is full of old-site red dots, and there aren’t many
places LEFT that are more than an inch away from old sites. (That’s
even with using Polysporin after every change, which somebody on here
recommended and which seems like a great idea!)

I guess I can try another area, but it’ll mean getting the longer tubing
if I want to keep wearing the pump in my bra…and I hate to order a
shipment of 43" Silhouettes if it turns out 23" would’ve been okay.

Laurie, pumping for 4 months/5 days

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Dear Suzanne,
I have been on the mini-med 507 for 5 years now and I too use the long
method. That is, leaving the tubing in for 6-7 days at a time and I have
not had any redness, swelling, or infections of any sort so far by using
this method. The doctor told me to change every three days but have been
able to go for the long method. I, myself do not see any problem in
doing it that way, just as long as you watch for any signs of an
infection.. Hope all is well with you.
Sincerely,KathyL.Buchecker.

Hi group,
I don’t post much but I have taken in all of the situations that everyone
post and shake my head in aggreement (you just don’t hear it rattle).

I just moved to the Lansing area of Michigan and I am in search of a
knowledgeable, "pump smart", "on top of research", endo doctor. Can anyone
refer me? I have a 506 this is my second series of pumps so probably on the
pump for 10+ yrs. Diabetic for 25+ years, no complications (just a little
brag I guess).

My endo referred me to someone that is a fair distance from where I live. I
would just assume return home to see him.

You can email me privately, Thanks,

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I have long been an advocate of frequent testing in the middle of the night.

This practice finally paid off.

For over two weeks, I have been unexpectedly high Bg’s at 3:30 am to 4:00 am
for no apparent reason; even low carb dinners resulted in a high of 200 or
so at the early hours, after being normal at bedtime.

The problem was finally located; the 12:00 am to 4:00 am basal setting had
mysteriously changed to 0.0, from its normal setting of 0.8! All other
basal settings remained correct. Since a new basal came in at 4:00 am for
the dawn syndrome, a spot check of the basal after 4:00 am did not reveal
the problem.

Had I not been checking in the middle of the night, this problem could have
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Hi, I am Sue from Sydney. Have been on insulin for 50 years next
February and went onto a Minimed 507 last February. Had the usual
hassles with carbos. etc. but everything seems fine now. I had a
rather bad fall in June 1997 and lost 35% use of my right arm, so
couldn’t give injections in my backside so that is one of the reasons
I decided to go on pump. Everything has been fine till 5 weeks ago
when found I couldn’t move my right arm hardly at all - have just
been into hospital and had operation (it is harder to move than
before but I was told it would take time to get movment back) but as
I am right handed it is rather difficult changing infusion sets so
for the last 2 months have only been changing every 7 days. Have
found no problems, no swelling, redness, bleeding etc when I remove
infusion sets and was just wondering if it is OK to leave infusion
sets in for 7 days (Ican’t get in touch with my Endo as he is on
holidays till end of October and the hospitals here know nothing
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I somehow lost the insulin pumpers web site address. Can one of you send it
to me? Thanks, Chrissy

monday-i called the wonderful dr. for the results of my 24 hr urine.this test
was done on the 12
now so if i’m jumping the gun please tell me.last thurs nurse said test on his
desk to call me.
i heard nothingand this morning he acts like he’s wondering why i am calling?he
asked me
"are you bored?" WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT.sorry.this is going from sad to stupid.(on
my part
or his part?) he said he would call me back in 20 minutes. RIGHT!

do these things happen to you guys or just me? when i get too much for you guys
just spray
me down with "Raid".

makes me want to laugh about it and say forget it.wait till he wants payment.ha
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Would the type-2 pumpers please e-mail me privately with pre and -post
pumping stories. A lady wants some *facts* to present to her endo.

good morning can someone tell me how bad a 1200-1600 range on a 24 hr urine
protein test
is?i think i remember it going in stages of micro(something) macro(something)
dialysis and
transplant.where does that number fall in the seriousness? my dr called but no
message of
the test results so now i’m kindof wondering why?

A patient a Yale University was recently told that you cannot die from
hypoglycemia while treating for diabetes. This seems to be true. I have
seen people in hypoglycemic coma for 12 to 24 hours and awaken without
difficulty.

Nor does there seem to be any detectable brain damage. I know there are
studies that might tend to refute what I just said but my experience does
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