Starting the pump - my thoughts after 2 months

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I would make my own. A few stiches. There are lots of places that would make the perfect holder 🙂. Well said Grainger !
 
trophywench said:
They don't do a sensible 'waistband' clip for the Roche Insight Hobie - I used the 'skin' for the Combo constantly even when I did have pockets in trousers or skirts - the hard plastic container for the Combo was far too big to use and the hard one they do for the Insight is useless cos you have to completely unclip it to do anything on the pump! Plus difficult to wrestle the pump into to begin with and the clip itself doesn't open far enough to clip on in the first place, let alone on and off and back on easily, when you have weak fingers which not being a typist or piano player, mine are.
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Not sure if they are suitable, but I saw something today which I'd heard about before which is 'Hid In' - a person who makes underwear and other soft fabric bands with a pocket for an insulin pump. Not so good if you need to access constantly I would think, but OK for Insight/Combo? Funky Pumpers always used to sell Spibelt type things too which people liked.
 
Urghh - I've seen it before Mike, it's made of synthetic material - now I know it's TMI but this diabetic lady learned 30+ years ago that synthetic underwear is a no-no! (Thrush mainly) Plus it costs silly money! LOL

If I was 45 years younger, taller and thinner than I've ever been and bodycon dresses were fashionable - then maybe I'd be tempted !!
 
I mainly wear dresses with pockets (White Stuff and Joules are good for these) where possible, I cut a little hole in the pocket and feed the tubing through. I have the 640G too and it is bulky, but do-able. I have put it in my bra on occasions I'm wearing a dress without pockets. I've got a SpiBelt-type band from TK Maxx that I use when running and I put this under my bra for the xmas party, had to wear a push up bra as my cleavage isn't very big, but it worked. You can program the meter with preset dual waves or do a manual bolus, and so I guessed in advance that I'd eat 100g carbs and set a 50:50 dual wave over an hour so I could deliver it remotely. The carbs were about right but then with a bit of dancing I ended up hypo, but that would have happened with using the pump directly too - a learning point for next year!

I've also got a couple of dresses with bat-wing type sleeves and I can put the pump (without the clip) in the side of my bra and use the remote functions, it's not too uncomfortable and you get used to it. When I went to choose a pump at the clinic I actually borrowed them all and went to the loos to try stuffing them down my bra and see how discreet it could be. The Insight did appeal because it is smaller, and has the full remote functions, but I don't really like touch screens and the remote seemed very slow to respond, so I choose the 640G because it seemed to have more pros than cons for me, but everyone is different, so make sure you get to handle a pump and try it for size if you're getting one.
 
I just tuck my pump in the side of my bra whatever I am wearing now. I don’t to access it once it is in as I have a Combo with the Bluetooth facility. The front of my bra holds the Libre, so like Grainger I am regularly fishing into my cleavage. People who know me know why, others don’t much notice.
 
Are there two sizes of Medtronic 640 pumps? I seem to remember there was a small pump with 1.8 unit cartridge. Is that still available do you know?
 
Don't think so. I have 1.8ml cartridges but they go in the 640G normal pump. I wasn't given a choice of size, anyway!
 
The pump is the same but accepts both 1.8ml and 3ml reservoirs. They allocated me the 3ml ones but I'm using less than 50 units a day so the 1.8's would have been fine. I may change them.
 
anniehi said:
Are there two sizes of Medtronic 640 pumps? I seem to remember there was a small pump with 1.8 unit cartridge. Is that still available do you know?
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They were going to make one, but didn’t in the end. There wasn’t much difference in the size of the casing to be honest, but the smaller one didn’t have the little sticky-up bit where the reservoir comes out. I gather lots of the extra size in 640G is for battery, and the next version (currently available in the US) the 670G uses the same overall design and casing. Looks like Medtronic are sticking with their ugly pup look for the foreseeable.
 
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