jenet
02-18-2006, 02:20 PM
I had my first pump alarm this morning - an Auto Off alarm because I hadn't pressed a button in 18 hours. Unfortunately, it woke me up when there was nothing wrong - so much for sleeping in. Then it started giving me No Prime No Delivery alarms, so I quit looking for a "Turn Back On" option, disconnected, reprimed and that seemed to work. Because I'm still pumping saline until Wednesday, this was no emergency, but I was a little annoyed at trying to figure out how to make my pump happy again so I could go back to sleep.
I had originally turned this off, but my CDE/Pump Trainer insisted it should be on when we went through the pump settings during pump training. We compromised on 18 hours as a setting that would let me sleep in, but I skipped dinner last night and my lunch humalog shot (and pretend saline bolus) was at 11:15 AM yesterday, so my pump alarmed at 5:15 this morning - precisely 18 hours later.
I called Animas Support this afternoon to ask for clarification on the best way to get the pump back "on" after an Auto Off, and also asked her why this feature was there. She laughed when I said I didn't think the alarm would do any good if I was already passed out from DKA (never happened to me yet anyways), and was very pleasant to talk to, but I don't feel I got a clear answer about why I should leave the Auto Off feature enabled. (Or if I did, I sure didn't understand it.)
Now my question is, what the heck is this feature good for anyways? :stupido2: Is there a real solid reason for leaving the Auto Off feature enabled?
cheers,
j
I had originally turned this off, but my CDE/Pump Trainer insisted it should be on when we went through the pump settings during pump training. We compromised on 18 hours as a setting that would let me sleep in, but I skipped dinner last night and my lunch humalog shot (and pretend saline bolus) was at 11:15 AM yesterday, so my pump alarmed at 5:15 this morning - precisely 18 hours later.
I called Animas Support this afternoon to ask for clarification on the best way to get the pump back "on" after an Auto Off, and also asked her why this feature was there. She laughed when I said I didn't think the alarm would do any good if I was already passed out from DKA (never happened to me yet anyways), and was very pleasant to talk to, but I don't feel I got a clear answer about why I should leave the Auto Off feature enabled. (Or if I did, I sure didn't understand it.)
Now my question is, what the heck is this feature good for anyways? :stupido2: Is there a real solid reason for leaving the Auto Off feature enabled?
cheers,
j