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Originally Posted by assimilated Hello,
This is my first time on this site, & believe it or not, my first time in a chat room of any kind. I have been diabetic since 1990. I have been wearing a pump for five years (Distetronic D-Tron), & it's time for a change.
I have visited with the sales reps from all three companies listed above, & have yet to make a decision. A lot of the functions are similar. However, Medtronic may be closest to coming out with constant blood glucose monitoring that transmits to the pump. Cozmo has a nice feature where a Freestyle monitor is actually attached to the pump & results transmitted. I like Animus because they're a Lifescan product & I'm a One Touch user.
How do I decide? Any opinions out there? Caveats? Thanks for your time in advance.
Fondly,
Cath (aka assimilated). |
Call the mfgrs and request product literature, DVD's, owner's manuals, and sample sets. All 3 pumps will do the job, so I think that "hands on", looking at the programming, etc is the only way to judge which one is best, in addition to looking at the specs for each one. some do smaller basals than others. Others have more flexibility in their settings with regard to the time of day. some pumps allow settings to change in 4 hour increments and others allow you to set those same parameters in 30 minute increments.
