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05-02-2008, 02:03 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Western WA
Posts: 468
| | | 2-4 days here. Usually 3. After 3, the site is usually getting a little sensitive, and the stink of the insulin (from the tubing itself) is unbearable to me. Yes, I have a cursedly sensitive nose..
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-Shane
T1 ~11 yrs
Minimed 522 w/ CGMS
Lifescan Ultra2 / BD Logic
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05-02-2008, 03:52 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Canada
Posts: 83
| | | Interesting, my daughter tells me that insulin stinks.
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34 Years In Pumping for 20
Minimed - Paradigm 722
A1C Previously - 8.5
Mar 2008 - 7.6
July 2008 - 7.4 - goin in the right direction | 
05-03-2008, 08:16 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Melbourne Australia
Posts: 545
| | | Ooh yep it does, I find it stinks if I have some kind of spill. To smell it from the tubing.... that is a very sensitive nose, you should become one of those professional "smellers" of perfumes and such, condensr.
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31 year old male. Type 1 since age of 15. On Minimed Paradigm 722/Novorapid since Dec 07. | 
05-03-2008, 01:25 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Universe, Planet Earth :P
Posts: 967
| | About every 2-2.5 days. That's when my insulin runs out anyways, so might aswell change it all then instead of just leaving the site for another day and just refill 
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22 years old, diagnosed T1D on october 14th 2004.
On MDI, Novorapid and Levemir, using the NP4
Currently back to pumping with my IR1200, April 2008.
Been using D-tron and Animas IR1200 but prefer the pen | 
05-04-2008, 09:59 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Tacoma, WA
Posts: 47
| | | I usually change every 3-4 days but due to $ issues as of late have found the Cleo set to be good to go for a week. The comfort doesn't do so well for that long...
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dx 1984
H-tron+ 2001-2007
Currently on the Cozmo
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05-06-2008, 03:29 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: San Diego, CA
Posts: 13
| | | Every 3-4 days for me. Also, I would recommend the Cleo infusion set too. I recently switched to that from the Silhouette style that went in at an angle. One huge advantage of the Cleo is that since it goes straight in, the canula doesn't have to be as large as the angled type, thus decreasing the amount of scar tissue buildup.
__________________ Type I since 1994
Deltec Cozmo 1800 pump
A1C 7/07 = 6.7%
A1C 3/08 = 7.5%
A1C 6/08 = 6.2% | 
05-06-2008, 04:37 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: North Texas
Posts: 1,818
| | | Every 3 days. But I only change the tubing when changing the reservoir, which lasts me about 9 days. I wonder if I should change the tubing more often . . . I have quite a collection.
__________________ Type 1 since 1979
Pumping with MM 522 since Feb '08
HbA1c 6.1 - April '08 | 
05-06-2008, 04:43 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northern California
Posts: 6,945
| | | I have started making myself change every three days by putting less insulin in the reservoir. I have pushed it to five days and after the fourth day, my numbers start to go way up. So.....less insulin in the reservoir is a good way to force me to change it. I hate changing a good site.
And YES, insulin stinks. |  | | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Linear Mode |
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