Insulin pumps

[novorapidboi26]

I have a loaned pump from my hospital. Waiting for funding so I can buy one of my own. Or rather, the hospital can buy it for me.

Ahh............I see, not heard of that before.............I assume the funding is guaranteed...........

 

[shiv]

Now that my consultant has written to them to request funding it is. As I said to Northe, if your consultant says he recommends one for you, the PCT by law have to provide the money to fund it. They might kick and scream about it but that's the law.

 

[novorapidboi26]

I agree with that the law, if the professional specialist doctor wants something, they have to be trusted to make the right decision, not someone dealing with money........

I hope you get your own one soon so you can name it.......

 

[Liz!]

Remember it's not just highs that can be a pain in the btm, if you can't stop lows at certain times of the day then it might be, like me, that you have a very low insulin asal requirement then and no long-acting insulin can cope with that.

I still have problems as my night time requirements are about 0.025u per hour between 12 and 3 in the morning, but my pump doesn't go down that far, so I do fel ill in the mornings quite often, and also often have to eat before bed (when I really do not want to) and half way through the night when it's almost impossible.

However the pump revolutionised my life, that and animal insulin. i had problems with bending my fingers, pain in joints, and very, very severe hypos - as soon as I wen ton animal insulin the pains went, my fingers freed up and my hypos, while still reading the same don't feel so terrible. Human and analog insulin just seems too - strong or something for me.

 

[Northerner]

I've heard that a lot from people who have been diagnosed a long time - that the animal insulin is better and the synthetic causes side effects. I wonder why?