[JediSkipdogg]

Congrats on the pump. I don't see going with Animas as a bad choice if you have to. I actually see it somewhat positive in a sense and here is why.

You are on an extremely large amount of insulin. There is no pump currently that will hold close to the amount you need in 3 days. If you continue taking 110+ units a day even on the pump then in 3 days you will take 330 units (simple math so far.)

Now think of this, the Animas cartridge is technically 186 units at max (that's the most I've gotten out of one) and the Cozmo would be 300 max (since I've never used one I'm not sure how much you'd get out.) There is about 15 units used in priming and preparing the cartridge for use. That means in a day you need 125+ units, but still hopefully less than 150, even 186 (as my next point will show.)

I have successfully used Animas cartridges 3 times before pitching them, which is why I have 6 boxes of IR 1000 cartridges I'm willing to donate to anyone that needs them (that's besides the point.) Now, if you choose Animas, you will have to change the cartridge every day or every 1.5 days. If you change it every morning (or evening) you will be in a pattern that you will hopefully always remember, and with the extra insulin you can stray from it possibly 8-12 hours.

Therefore choosing Animas you can fill a cartridge with insulin and with a permanent marker put a I on it. Then when you use that cartridge 24 hours later, you put another I on it for II. Then the following day do it again so you have III, which means when you go for a complete infusion set change, you change your cartridge and start out with a new one. Simple enough right? A monkey could do it.

Now, if you choose the Cozmo or even the Minimed 715, then you have 300 units of insulin. At 125 units in a day, that means you will be changing the insulin cartridge at 2.5 days roughly. If you use more insulin, you will be changing at about 2 days.

That puts you in an odd cycle of how many supplies you need to order for a month (ordering the exact same amount of cartridges and infusion sets is easy ordering.) It also puts it hard on remembering to change the insulin cartridge and you could run out mid-day when you least expect it. You wouldn't have any routine set up for changing the cartridge and you could keep an infusion set in too long or you could forget a time to change the cartridge.

Do you understand what I'm saying? Mainly I look at having only 200 units as a convenience for you. And you wouldn't be wasting any insulin, say you only use 140 units in your 186 unit cartridge, you can just add 140 more units with the current 46 units in there and it won't hurt anything. The only key you would need to remember is to not throw the needle or little plunger handle away after filling the cartridge or it will make filling it again the next day a little tougher.