for Christine
>I have had Type 1 diabetes for 35 years
>and I am told I have done very well.
Christine, that was my experience when I started pumping last year — and
I wish I’d known before starting that "doing very well" can be a BAD
thing when it comes to starting a new regimen. (If I’d known, it
wouldn’t have been bad!)
The problem was that all the training and literature emphasize how much
better you’ll feel when you’ve got the improved control pumping gives
you. That didn’t happen for me — I already felt fine — and the lack of
any immediate payoff made it more frustrating to put up with the natural
learning curve of any new venture.
As long as you don’t go in expecting that pumping will give you a whole
new wonderful feeling of health/vigor/enthusiasm that you’ve never known
before, you’ll do great!
Laurie, who would’ve put up with the minor down-sides a lot better if it
weren’t for those un-achievable expectations