If it was a family member or close friend of mine with diabetes who wanted to be on a pump and wasn't testing I would ABSOLUTELY say they should NOT be on the pump. If you're not testing, a pump is dangerous. End of story. What if your tubing kinked? You could go into DKA without noticing you were high before it was too late. If you're on Lantus or Levemir, or god-forbid NPH, at least you know you're getting your insulin.
Hmmm you would make an excellent doctor! I have ended up in the hospital with my pump before my bloodsugars kept going higher and higher and the more finger sticks i did the worse they seemed the more insulin I took the less it seemed to do but since I have been on my pump my sugars only got to 500 and I had to be in the hospital as to the 900 they were the last time I went before I had the pump. I understand your logic of not wanting them to be on the pump if they are not testing but I think it does not work that way for everyone, or maybe thats just my fantasy.....
I'm glad you feel better, but I don't consider that the "gold standard" so to speak.
No it is not the gold standard as most would probably see it but before the pump it was like I had a split personality I was a horrible horrible person screaming when my sugars were high laying around in bed because it was hard to move and after the pump my life is so much better and i have no doubt I would have been dead by now if I had not gotten the pump. So for me it's a little closer to gold then I was.
Yes, but how often is a "typical day?"
OK now ya got me.........honestly not often I am trying to get better about testing I have 4 machines seems I can never find any of them, but I got them all to sit right where i sit everyday, my routines are pretty much the same but who knows why I move them.
I have til october to figure out what I want to do but at least now I know that this could be more of a problem then a help. I will see if I can't get better at testing first before I get either
