Hi all....
Am going to be going onto the Accu Check Combo sometime before xmas hopefully...any advice from anyone on them or in general...am a little worried about wearing the pump 24/7...but at the same time very excited to get going!!
Hey Shelly, its Louisa!!! We seem to be moving in the same circles (no pum inteneded!) this week!!!
When we meet I will have to show you my pump and bore you stupid with it! I can guarantee it will take the nerves away and you will want to get going asap! Tracey W uses the accu check spirit combo and Im sure she will have something to add. I think it sounds like a great pump and great features. I am slightly jelous of this I must confess when I first heard about the meter-pump control. I think its fantastic for us 'ladies' wot dont wanna be pulling the pump out their bra every five mins!
When is your start date? Does anyone else in the Kent group pump? Keep us updated.
Hi all,
Lou - spill the beans lady!
Bev x
My DSN was extremely disapointed in medtronic, they are now getting a few enquiries in (mostly mums- I did laugh, but had to explain they are the most on the ball group on the internet so Im not suprised!). The local medtronic link doesnt appear to be fantastic and she is now tasked with letting people know the 'limited' amount she has been told, which ironically came because of me. She had been trying to order veos for her clients and she was told they were out of stock lately, which we now know to be that they were with-held for software problems.
She was impressed with spibelt website, and had a look at my carelink. Im sure half the stuff we gossip about isnt anywhere near the agenda but she is like a second mum. And she gives me man advice
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I forgot to ask Bev about the temp basaling, sorry. I got massively caught up in my hba1c and by the trick scales and I peed on my hand instead of the pot again...the list of excuses is endless....
So the biggest crime of the day has to be my Hba1c, errr...I'll never be in the hba1c hall of fame as you know. Its down a minascule 0.4% for all that work Ive done. Well my life has been like a Jeremy Kyle show for the last 4 months so the boss didnt think Id done too badly actually. Bless her, but I felt I have been wronged somewhat. I have to stop having big life dramas and get my act together. Back to the drawing board....
No don't use it Mand. It is better to get a watch with an alarm. Definitely do not use that feature nor the Contour Link feature. Disable them both. I spoke to our hospital today (not that we have a VEO) and they told me that Medtronic seem to be speaking to the DSN's rather than patients and the DSN's are supposed to be contacting patients. Our DSN's (we have three) took a part of the list each and rang each patient last Tuesday.
Our main DSN has a good contact with Medtronic so maybe they called them one of the first. I said no-one had received their letters and that was put down to the post strike and that the letters would be 2nd class, didn't think of that but could be true.
Im still using the link unless my stalls....there are paradigms on standby at the place I go to so Im going to carry on. Ive disabled the missed bolus as I can live without it.
Im proper impressed P chats to hubbie on skype! Anyone else?
