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Originally Posted by Blibbit784  I am going with Minimed, starting Monday. The trainer is helping with my ratios as I am brittle and have poor control on injections. She also tells me the pump has only a 3% margin of insulin that may not be absorbed or used properly, but with injections you may not get up to 50% since it is subcutaneous. | Excuse me for being dense, but can you explain this to me a little more in depth please?
I used to whack an 8mm long needle into me. Now I have a 6mm teflon tube sticking in. Are you saying that the 6mm tube is not subcutaneous? I know that you use less insulin on a pump, but further details on this would be welcome 
So as not to pinch the thread totally, I'm a 100% pumping convert. Just over 3 weeks in and you would have to threaten violence to get me back to MDI. And even that might not work...
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...And through the night it's love is free
It whispers and it flirts with me
And then it takes me, hard and deep
Rolls over, farts and falls asleep
And I would wake up, feeling used
My body broken, bent, abused
But now I match it, hump for hump
I give it plenty with my pump 
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