Hello Forum! Although new here, I was diagnosed in 1973 (gosh - 45+ years ago!). Currently using Roche Insight Pump and Libre. Thankful that days of sterilising syringes, painful needles, testtubes & tablets are a long way in the past! Glad to see there's lots of info to read & which hopefully will help me with (a) next pump decision, (b) improving hba1c, (c) hand & finger pain & ..... anything else that I need to check up on.
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New to Forum but 45+ yrs as T1
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Flower
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Hello @SueC@LS and welcome, glad you've joined us 🙂
There's a fair few around here with 45+ years under their belt that can remember all the old paraphernalia .
There's a number of posts in the Pumping section re choice of pump and the various pros and cons.
Joining this forum certainly encouraged and enabled me to lower my HbA1c by reading what others do to minimise spikes etc.
Ask away with any questions. 🙂
There's a fair few around here with 45+ years under their belt that can remember all the old paraphernalia .
There's a number of posts in the Pumping section re choice of pump and the various pros and cons.
Joining this forum certainly encouraged and enabled me to lower my HbA1c by reading what others do to minimise spikes etc.
Ask away with any questions. 🙂
trophywench
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Beat you by one LOL. Same pump and trialled the Libre, which hardly ever bore any resemblance to my meter and certainly didn't reveal any trends - just utterly random results with a graph that resembled a 2 yo's scribbling attempts - hence I don't use one.
I have another 12 months to go on mine and I'm not all that fond of it - my husband says because I have no patience, well that bit's true I do find it slow but it's pathetic not having a decent skin that I can hook onto the waist of anything without pockets, or not big enough pockets. The horrid hard clip thing is nearly as bad as the Combo one - smaller admittedly and not as garish - but so difficult to get the thing in and out of and impossible to even see the screen when you attempt to do anything eg see how much insulin is left, how long a TBR has to run, when your last bolus was or enter a bolus or set a TBR in the absence of your meter.
Anyway so it's a matter of, if anything else offers sufficient extra things or makes things easier, to warrant changing makes - or is the Devil I know, better for me? I want to meet a Medtronic and a pod - to play with rather than attached to another T1 I mean!
I have another 12 months to go on mine and I'm not all that fond of it - my husband says because I have no patience, well that bit's true I do find it slow but it's pathetic not having a decent skin that I can hook onto the waist of anything without pockets, or not big enough pockets. The horrid hard clip thing is nearly as bad as the Combo one - smaller admittedly and not as garish - but so difficult to get the thing in and out of and impossible to even see the screen when you attempt to do anything eg see how much insulin is left, how long a TBR has to run, when your last bolus was or enter a bolus or set a TBR in the absence of your meter.
Anyway so it's a matter of, if anything else offers sufficient extra things or makes things easier, to warrant changing makes - or is the Devil I know, better for me? I want to meet a Medtronic and a pod - to play with rather than attached to another T1 I mean!
SB2015
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Welcome Sue
This is a great place to draw on info about so many different D related things.
I have stick with Combo so far, and still have a coupe of years before my next decision. I shall watch with interest to see the developments in the meantime, along with info on here about how others have got on with the various pumps.
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