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Sceaming pumps
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OMG I am so so glad my pump beeps at me if something is wrong.
The idea of getting no feedback when I am getting absolutely no insulin (with no long acting basal) is incredibly scary. Why would anyone want to turn off such a warning?
My pump has beeped at me in awkward situations but I am happier to deal with the slight embarrassment than something far more dangerous.
But, to answer your question - not all pumps scream: some beep and I had one that vibrated. I really really hope that there are no pumps that allow you to turn off incredibly important alerts.
The idea of getting no feedback when I am getting absolutely no insulin (with no long acting basal) is incredibly scary. Why would anyone want to turn off such a warning?
My pump has beeped at me in awkward situations but I am happier to deal with the slight embarrassment than something far more dangerous.
But, to answer your question - not all pumps scream: some beep and I had one that vibrated. I really really hope that there are no pumps that allow you to turn off incredibly important alerts.
PattiEvans
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I have only had one pod scream at me in 3 years. Right at the beginning of using Omnipod (my first pod) stopped communication with the PDM. I rang tech help who told me to take it off, but didn't explain that I should deactivate it first - if indeed I had been able to since it wasn't communicating with the PDM. After about half an hour of having taken it off it started alarming and at first I thought it was the smoke alarm until we finally tracked the noise down. I made a further call to tech help and they told me to remove the backing, look for a small hole at the opposite end to the cannula and stick a paper clip or pin in it, which stopped it. So honestly I wouldn't worry about it.
Inka
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I’ve had two Dana pumps and, amazingly, in the approx 7 years I’ve had them nothing has ever gone wrong! Previous pumps have had occasional alarms like occlusion alert, etc, and then they did a prolonged kind of low toned beep and vibrated strongly, so it was clear something important was up. I didn’t need any screaming to realise that.
Sally71
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The downside of pumps is that if anything goes wrong, your blood sugar can rise to dangerous levels very quickly, because you have no long-acting insulin. So they have to be able to tell you if there is a problem. Most pumps have a volume control I think, although turning such warnings off completely could potentially be dangerous. We’ve never had a total pump failure, cannulas seem to be the weak spot in the whole system (occlusions, leakages), but the pump also has to warn you if battery level is low, insulin running out etc, just in case you hadn’t noticed