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Originally Posted by Shotokan Nice list.
I notice that you put "Freedom" as a + for both the pump and MDI. I know what you mean: different kinds of freedom. With MDI you are free of anything being attached to you. With the pump you have relatively more freedom with eating. For example, you can postpone a decision on whether you will have one or two slices of pizza and just bolus for each slice as you go along, while with MDI you either need to inject enough insulin for two slices or do a second injection later if you decide to have another slice. |
yep, different kinds of freedom
On MDI i can wear whatever i want to wear without having to worry where to put the pump, go swimming without needing to plan it too much, sure, my pump is waterproof, but in summer... well i can live without infusion site tan
Or when disconnect *still get infusion site tan if it's in summer* and then needing to go back and connect every now and then to always have insulin in your system. On MDI one always have insulin in the system thanks to the longacting
So it really is different kinds of freedom... One of the features i like the most about pumping, is the possibility to take really tiny bolus doses, sometimes 1U is too much
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22 years old, diagnosed T1D on october 14th 2004.
On MDI, Novorapid and Levemir, using the NP4
Currently back to pumping with my IR1200, April 2008.
Been using D-tron and Animas IR1200 but prefer the pen
