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05-08-2008, 12:53 PM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 1
| | | hi
how do u feel with the insulin pump? do u feel that is worth having it |
05-08-2008, 12:56 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 5,908
| | | Hi Marly, welcome! You might want to check out some of our older post threads..there are lots of them full of good information. Can't answer your question, as i'm T2 not on insulin, but wanted to welcome you to the forums.
__________________ T2, diagnosed 8/31/06.
Byetta 5 mcg
HCTZ 12.5 mg every other day for BP
Enalapril 20 mg 1 daily (ace-inhibitor)
Lower carb dieter (approx. 75 total carbs/day, more on weekends), taking chromium, multivitamin and fish oil tablets Initial A1C 8/06: 9.6
11/06: 6.2.
03/07: 5.3
06/07: 5.4
10/07: 5.3
05/08: 6.2 (right after dealing with shingles and bronchitis)  |
05-08-2008, 01:03 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Roanoke, VA
Posts: 459
| | As another type 2, welcome. Check out the Type 2 listings there are many that deal with pumping. 
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Janlaton
type 2 40 years
Avandia, Glipzide & Metformin
Grandmother to 4 wonderful children
I have diabetes, It does not have me!
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05-08-2008, 02:00 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rothesay, New Brunswick Canada, eh
Posts: 6,228
| | | Welcome Marly. Totally!!!
__________________ Michael Pollan on CBC
In Defense of Food with Michael Pollan T1 1975, MM 722 pump
A1C 4/08 6.0%
Called John, plus many other things
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John's Troll Meter - current level: Cold |
05-08-2008, 07:08 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: California
Posts: 944
| | Hi back, Marly.
Like Linda said, do a search for things with the word pump in them on this board. Tons of information.
The long and the short of it? Sure makes life easier. Easier to sneak in a bolus when really need it. Easier to keep track of how much insulin you've taken. Easier to figure how much insulin you need. Easier to carry your stuff.
That enough for now? 
Check out the pump threads and then ask anything you can think of that you want to know. We aren't shy here because we are all in the same boat.
Glad you found us. Again, Welcome.
Mich |
05-09-2008, 04:16 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: NJ
Posts: 541
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Originally Posted by marly85  how do u feel with the insulin pump? do u feel that is worth having it | I feel great. Yes it is definitly worth it. After 32 years of MDI and fighting the pump idea I kick myself now for not doing it earlier.
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Type 1 since 4/74
Pump user since 10/17/06!
A1C 5/08: 6.0
Bike miles this year: 1042 miles
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05-09-2008, 04:43 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
Posts: 1,430
| | How do I feel on the pump... 
__________________ ~ Frank Metabolic Syndrome Dx'd March 2003. Started MM 712 Pump April 2004. MM 722 + Contour Link April 2008. "...type 2 diabetes is associated with obesity... [so] most people assume that the excess weight causes the diabetes. But... it's possible that diabetes causes obesity" "One of the causes of your diabetes is a poor choice of ancestors." - Gretchen Becker - The First Year: Type 2 Diabetes: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed |
05-09-2008, 05:12 AM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Melbourne Australia
Posts: 542
| | | For me, the pump has returned the experience of "feeling healthy" to my life. A week into pumping, I realised that for my 15 years of MDI, I was under a malaise of feeling constantly under the weather and "off" in mind and body, from swinging blood sugars.
It is not something I think makes things "easier"... rather, it facilitates me being healthier, in turn returning energy and life force to me. It also provides options to be a lot more flexible with my lifestyle, such as eating light with no real effort to adjust, and excercise with the tools to really minimise "managing" my BG over that period.
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Some boring but vital statistics:
31 year old male. Type 1 since age of 15. On Minimed Paradigm 722/Novorapid since Dec 07.
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