Another Newbie

[JGM]

At last, I've joined. Been T1 for 53 of my 67 years.

 

[Josh DUK]

At last, I've joined. Been T1 for 53 of my 67 years.

Hello @JGM,

Welcome to our online community! How has your journey been managing your diabetes?

 

[Rabmac1]

Welcome JGM, I joined just before you. I have found it a great experience, the mods are so helpful

See you around
Rab

 

[Flower]

Hello and welcome @JGM glad you've joined us 🙂

Congratulations on 53 years of T1, I hope the years have been kind to you. Are you an MDI or pump person, Libre, cgm ?

There's a fair few 50+ years of T1 forum members, have you received your Alan Nabarro medal?

 

[Lily123]

Welcome to the forum 🙂

Congratulations on 53 years of T1!

 

[JGM]

Hello and welcome @JGM glad you've joined us 🙂

Congratulations on 53 years of T1, I hope the years have been kind to you. Are you an MDI or pump person, Libre, cgm ?

There's a fair few 50+ years of T1 forum members, have you received your Alan Nabarro medal?

Started off with glass and steel syringes then plastic disposables, now pumps.
Initially had a couple of Medtronics then tried tubeless Medtrum. Great to be free of tubes but prone to not lasting the advertised 3-days and found their CGM unreliable. Now on the YpsoPump. Decent enough but I have found it to be more prone to bubbles in line and associated high glucose than the Medtronics were, but YpsoMed tell me that this is just an inherrent issue with insulin and tubed pumps. Guess I was lucky with the Medtronics.
Was initially on the Libre before trying the Medtrum sensor. I found the Libre to be more reliable and less prone to false alarms and ran them both to check reliability. One of the reasons I stopped using Medtrums kit and am now on Libre 2.
So far no major complications, that I am aware off at least.
I had completely forgotten about the Nabarro medal, need to check up on it.

 

[trophywench]

I'm 'due' for my Nabarro medal this year - must have a look and see how to apply/what proof you need - cos I haven't got any other than it was just before the Munich (summer) Olympics started - and that one is more famous for the awful 'Black September' killings, rather than how well Team GB did.

I've been using a tubes pump for about 12/13 years now - and have had 3 'Occusion' alarms on them during that time. Hence I think YpsoMed's statement that 'it's an inherrent isuue' 'doubtful' to say the least. Actually TBH I think it's a complete load of , err, cobras......

 

[JGM]

Welcome JGM, I joined just before you. I have found it a great experience, the mods are so helpful

See you around
Rab

I'm 'due' for my Nabarro medal this year - must have a look and see how to apply/what proof you need - cos I haven't got any other than it was just before the Munich (summer) Olympics started - and that one is more famous for the awful 'Black September' killings, rather than how well Team GB did.

I've been using a tubes pump for about 12/13 years now - and have had 3 'Occusion' alarms on them during that time. Hence I think YpsoMed's statement that 'it's an inherrent isuue' 'doubtful' to say the least. Actually TBH I think it's a complete load of , err, cobras......

While I've had a couple of occlusion alarms with the Ypso they did not appear to associated with the bubble "incidents", something else to check. Part of their explanation is that their blue tubing makes it easier to spot the bubbles. Probably true but doesn't explain why rising glucose readings couldn't be fixed until the tubing was purged, something which only happened once with the Medtronics.

 

[trophywench]

Well I'd just get my insulin pen out of the fridge door and jab a correction.

 

[JGM]

True, that would fix the immediate problem but not the longer term control until the bubbles were cleared.