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05-06-2008, 04:51 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Texas
Posts: 63
| | | When you shower
Just curious.....When you take a shower do you disconnect your pump or do you shower with it connected. If you do disconnect do you suspend it or let it run?
Me I just started taking showers with it connected and when I don't have it on when I shower I just let it run.
Molly
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Molly, 15, Type 1 for 13 years
Pumping with Animas 1200.
Daughter to my dad Clay a type one diabetic for 40 years.On shots
Older cousin to Mandy also type 1 diabetic for 1 year. Pumpin with Cosmo. |
05-06-2008, 05:05 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rothesay, New Brunswick Canada, eh
Posts: 7,047
| | If I take it off, I let it run. I almost always leave mine connected. I usually bolus for breakfast then clip it to the top of the curtain. I try very hard not to drop the soap  |
05-06-2008, 05:09 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Cincinnati, OH
Posts: 8,356
| | | I disconnect in the shower, mainly cause it would be on the floor or hanging more often than not. I'd knock it off all the time or yank on the tubing. I just leave mine on the bathroom counter on, no suspend. I'd get annoyed with the beeping every 3 minutes if I suspended it.
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05-06-2008, 05:10 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Royal Oak, Michigan
Posts: 926
| | | disconnected and not on suspend
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MM 722 and CGMS; Humalog & Symlin
a1c Trying to get below 6... 
6.8 (9.10.08) 
Vitrectomies May 2007 & July 2007
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05-06-2008, 05:11 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northern California
Posts: 7,390
| | | I always disconnect. |
05-06-2008, 05:29 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: North Texas
Posts: 1,847
| | | I bolus for 20-30 minutes worth of basal and suspend. I also make sure I don't leave the pump where a cat can play with the tubing!
__________________  Type 1 since 1979 (Age 18)
Pumping w/MM 522 since Feb '08
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05-06-2008, 05:38 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northern California
Posts: 7,390
| | | I forgot to mention I don't suspend my pump. I should.....because I have left it sitting on the counter at bedtime. An alarm would remind me. I just don't do it. |
05-06-2008, 05:55 PM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Vermont, 50 miles from nowhere
Posts: 2,396
| | | I disconnect and leave it running on the bathroom counter.
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Take care of your body. Where else are you going to live? |
05-06-2008, 06:05 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: NJ
Posts: 707
| | | Disconnect and leave it run. Usually only 5 to 10 minutes at most it is off.
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A1C 5/08: 6.0
A1C 10/08 5.7 
Bike miles this year: 2332 miles
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05-06-2008, 06:54 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Landenberg, PA
Posts: 1,332
| | | Disconnect & let run. Sometimes I give myself a tenth unit when I reconnect just to be tidy.
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05-06-2008, 06:57 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: North Texas
Posts: 1,847
| | | Ok now, I feel like a dummy. Why don't you suspend instead of let run?
__________________ Type 1 since 1979 (Age 18)
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05-06-2008, 08:08 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 5,772
| | | Disconnect, let it run. |
05-06-2008, 08:29 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Texas
Posts: 781
| | | another disconnect and let it run here |
05-06-2008, 08:39 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Kentucky
Posts: 326
| | | Disconnect and let it run. Never thought about suspend to tell the truth. A little beep to remind me to connect back up might be helpful though--sometimes I forget for a little while--usually not though. |
05-06-2008, 08:57 PM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Melbourne Australia
Posts: 712
| | Disconnect, don't suspend. Quote:
Originally Posted by Jan B  Ok now, I feel like a dummy. Why don't you suspend instead of let run? | I don't know about you being a dummy, Jan, I think of not suspending as just laziness more than anything. For me my reasoning is, that in 20 or 30 minutes, it's just not "worth it" to save the insulin, throw in wanting to save my ears from a few more beeps, add basic laziness not wanting to press more buttons, and voila.
It's probably true that the reminder beeps would have made me put it back on a little faster sometimes. But I consider it a wonderful psychological break to take it off and NOT be hassled every few minutes by it And for me, personally, I'm very unlikely to forget to put it back on.
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