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04-21-2008, 12:03 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Bellevue, WA
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Originally Posted by Subby  The manual prime is to fill the line, the fixed is to fill the cannula. If you don't do a fixed prime, it means the first wack of insulin that goes in will be filling the canulla, not you.
This may or may not be of consequence to you: but you should be aware of it. Some people like me find it useful to over fixed-prime, to get a new cannula "kick started" faster. | I don't change my tubing and set at the same time, so I don't need to do a fixed prime after a manual prime. The part that's confusing me is where they said that you can't skip that. I always skip it.
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Dx T2 3/2005
Correctly dx T1 (LADA) 11/2006
MM 522 w/NovoLog since 1/07
Previously on Actos, Starlix, Metformin ER, Lantus
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04-21-2008, 12:05 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
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Originally Posted by lilituc Huh, I don't think mine says anything about a fixed prime after I do a manual prime. If I want to do a manual prime, I go in later and select it from the menu. Maybe next time I'll see if it mentions it, but I don't think so. | On my 722 (same on 712 as I recall) under Menu->Prime, the first option is "Fixed Prime"... this is set according to the infusion set that you use... mine is on 0.7u
Each time I do a Manual Prime and finish with Esc.. the next thing offered is Fixed Prime. With the 712 I could just escape out of it (if I was reusing an infusion set) but with the 722 I was warned you cannot skip it... so if need be I just run it still disconnected. Perhaps if I did not set a value in the Menu->Prime->Fixed Prime option it would not come up?
__________________ ~ Frank Metabolic Syndrome Dx'd March 2003. Pumping since April 2004. VSG 20th October 2008 Obesity and Type 2 are strongly associated. Most people assume that Obesity is the cause and Diabetes the effect. It is equally valid to suggest that the underlying metabolic disorder which leads to the Type 2 causes the Obesity. |
04-21-2008, 12:10 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Bellevue, WA
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Originally Posted by fgummett On my 722 (same on 712 as I recall) under Menu->Prime, the first option is "Fixed Prime"... this is set according to the infusion set that you use... mine is on 0.7u
Each time I do a Manual Prime and finish with Esc.. the next thing offered is Fixed Prime. With the 712 I could just escape out of it (if I was reusing an infusion set) but with the 722 I was warned you cannot skip it... so if need be I just run it still disconnected. Perhaps if I did not set a value in the Menu->Prime->Fixed Prime option it would not come up? | Huh. I'm looking at the manual for the 522/722 and it just says to select Fixed Prime from the menu after you've done the Manual Prime. My Fixed Prime value defaults to whatever I used last and my pump still doesn't make me do it after a Manual Prime.
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Dx T2 3/2005
Correctly dx T1 (LADA) 11/2006
MM 522 w/NovoLog since 1/07
Previously on Actos, Starlix, Metformin ER, Lantus
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04-21-2008, 12:13 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Melbourne Australia
Posts: 712
| | | Ah I see lilituc... silly me. I was thinking it was a bit weird you pumping that long and not realising the use of a fixed prime. (Although I suppose it could happen).
Fgummett, I run a 722 and I can escape out after a manual prime with no fixed prime, no problems.
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32 year old male. Type 1 since age of 15. On Minimed Paradigm 722/Novorapid since Dec 07.
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04-21-2008, 12:16 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
Posts: 2,118
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Originally Posted by Subby Fgummett, I run a 722 and I can escape out after a manual prime with no fixed prime, no problems. | Thanks... it was my "pump nurse" who warned me about this... I see her tomorrow so I'll ask her what she meant.
~ Frank
__________________ ~ Frank Metabolic Syndrome Dx'd March 2003. Pumping since April 2004. VSG 20th October 2008 Obesity and Type 2 are strongly associated. Most people assume that Obesity is the cause and Diabetes the effect. It is equally valid to suggest that the underlying metabolic disorder which leads to the Type 2 causes the Obesity. |
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