it has two arrows next to it showing 172, so what I am going todo, because all that I have been having is problems with this $^&&%#@ device!
I almost am being forced to go back on injections!
I HATE THE PUMP!
STPUID PIECE OF YIT! Now it says I am at 233 and going up with TWO arrows!, lol stupid piece of yit, 385, after I ckecked my BS with A METER!! Hold on going to go take a manual injections, and who cares if I take to much, at least I know that I am gettuing insulin, unlike the stupid pump, that sends out false expectations! BRB going to go take 5 units, because whatever I have taken by pump hasn’t worked! STUPID PUMP! And Trainer!
Great now I dont remember if I took my injection, but I did change the site.
I think I might just put the insertion device in my neck! I can feel it, and it proboble has a better absorbsion rate?
OH WELL, took 4 units of humilog.
I honestly have never had soooooooo much stress before I went with MM! And when I was on injections. STUPID PIECE OF YIT!
And with Animus you can call them ANY time to order supplies, unlike medtronics, that is only 5 am to like 3pm eastern time?
Sorry if you have been reading thus far, but this is the feelings I get when I am with MM, and the trainer I had was absolutely NOOOOO help!
And the territory manager has yet to get back to me, oh wait he did, ONCE!
I would say that once going from injections, that my life has gotten 20 times worse!
And I like the fact that they changed the comercial that you heard when first calling MM a while back, “Your life will be sooooo much easier on a medtronics pump”! Yea, I wonder what happened to the voice waiting comercial? I guess they knew that they were promoting false advertising!
WELL, I guess I have to medicate myself from now on!
I had frustrations with customer service at one point with MM too. The last few times I had to call it was pleasant.
Maybe you should just put the pump and CGMS away for a few weeks and go back to shots. After you take a break maybe you can go back to it and try again. I get frustrated with it on occasion and just take a while off. When the territory manager can meet up with you you will be ready to give it another try.
sorry you are having problems. if you are having highs all the time youre probably doing something wrong. Have your endo or trainer evaluate what you are doing. are you putting your site in scar tissue areas? stretch mark areas? if you are then you are getting very poor absorbtion, this affects numbers tremendously. have you had stress? been ill? maybe you should talk to your doctor about adjusting your basal, often times when you are new to a pump they let you run high and slowly increase insulin to bring you down. dont give up! goodluck!
I am so sorry you are so frustrated with the whole system. The learning curve can be great, and with too little training these feelings can be even worse. If you break it down into steps, it might be easier to digest than taking on everything at once.
What I’m seeing from your latest incident is that your sugar is climbing rapidly. Perhaps you need to look at your carbohydrate ratio for your bolus wizard. Taking a shot vs pump bolus when you are rapidly climbing is a good idea. You can enter a manual shot in the capture event menu, so hopefully you can ease your mind a bit about when you took it.
I like the idea of perhaps learning the new pump before adding the CGMS portion to it. You can turn off the sensor and just work on getting your settings correct or closer to your needs and learn the ins and outs of the medtronic menu first. Do a basal test by fasting for half the day and see if your current settings for that are correct. Test often with a finger stick, make corrections and then try again.
For bolus testing, do after you manage your basal rates. Use food that is marked as a serving with carbs clearly labeled. Do hourly checks for 4 hours after and see your rise and fall rate with your current settings. Upload all your numbers to CareLink to see the BIG picture and share with your doctor or diabetes educator. Your pump trainer is not supposed to change your settings, just show you how you can do it.
Good luck.
I dont have a pump trainer or a diabetic educator! I just have myself, and the online community! Wait I do have a pump trainer but, don’t like their style of education. Plus, I kinda dont trust people that can not relate with me, of not being on a pump themselves!
I had a much better life prior to being on a pump, when I was on injections, cool fall rate:)235 with two arrows:) at least I am coming down now, I wonder what it really is on the meter?297!
sensitivity is 80? whats thast mean? carb ratio is 1:15
OH well, other stuff going on round the home base. But email me back on rickyd227 gmail:)
Rick
scar tissue, well yes! My whole abdomin has a huge scar on it going from a foot above the belly button to about 6 inches below it, from getting abdomin surgery follow a car accident 81101, and have a G-tube scar from the feeding tube that I had.
What other places can you have the sites, legs? love handle areas? inside thighs/ or outside, did it there before. I know your butt, but thats hard to see and it is not someplace I would want it!
I kinda had good numbers on the thighs.
TRAINERS HERE, are a BBIIGGG joke!
What are the other inputs (food, anything else?) that were involved? I haven’t run into that many “technical” problems with the MM pump but if I get a few points off carbs/ ratios/ etc. the numbers can get bonkers pretty easily.
You don’t have a CDE - do you have an endo? Probably a good idea to give him/her a call and ask for training. I agree that you should put away the CGM until you have your pump worked out.
endo, lol, nope
Who prescribed your pump? Your insulin?
I had a lot of learning to do once I began to pump. I knew it all, how to control my diabetes after over 40 years of this on shots. But if I knew how to control it all, why did my A1c just keep climbing?
It took me about a month to get comfortable with the crazy thing. And in that first month, I came very close to hitting it with a sledge hammer, dropping it off a building, or conveniently allowing it to fly out the window of my vehicle while traveling at 70MPH down the interstate, tubing and all.
But once you get all the little things adjusted, being “tied” to this battery operated little computer that just keeps on cranking was the best decision I have made. My A1c stays below 6.5, with the last one at 6.2. I can eat when I want and what I want as long as I accurately measure the carbs I am chowing down on. Now if I do not measure them correctly, then that is another story. But it is the same with MDI’s too.
I use thighs and rear for my pump, belly for the Dexcom. I worked with me to figure out how to adjust the settings on my pump to make it work for me. Yes, I have a good trainer. But it’s me and I react differently than you when I eat the same food or walk the same mile. Not every day is smooth, even after 3 years of pumping. Most days but not every day.
Don’t give up. There are tons of tricks for the CGMS to get it to be more accurate for many people. And the pump just has to be put togther like a jigsaw puzzle, one piece at a time until the whole picture is complete.
I am with MM 723 paradigm, and NEVER got trained on it the right way, I also have a CGM! I also do not have a diabetic educator, or whatever they are called, or an endo! If I do, I haven’t seen them for like 3-6 months? I HATE THE PUMP! I have a script from my doc here, to get an A1C done.
I also have Brain Injury from a car wreck, back on 81101, was in a coma for a month and half, a lot of other stuff also, email me at rickyd227 at gmail:)
Whats a CDE? Never saw one of those either? Certified Diabetic Educator, I know!
I just got thrown to the pit bull dogs.
And the snazauges, in a blanket, are running low for them:)
So they might start looking at me as a piece of chow for them, meaning, that the diabetic fiasco might be heading to a dead end, for me?
I have been pondering going back on injections, to avoid this roller coaster of extremely high, and extremely lows!
I JUST DON’T KNOW anymore?
Who prescribed your pump? Your insulin???
DONT GET WHAT you are asking?
OK, looks like we’re getting somewhere. You have a doctor, but he’s not a specialist in endocrinology. You don’t have a diabetes educator. You don’t like your trainer. You are rejecting the very tools that are there to help you. We’ve all done it., you just need to recognize that you are doing it.
Sensitivity seems very high. This means that for every 1 unit of insulin you are taking with your pump, it will lower your sugar 80 points. Are you very thin or have a very high metabolism? What kind of food are you eating? Are you able to accurately carb count? Carb ratio means that for every 1 unit of insulin, you currently have it set to cover 15 grams of carbs. That’s generally a good starting point, but once you get settled in with the new system you may end up with different ratios for both sensitivity and carbs at different times of the day. As the day goes by your needs change. Remember to enter a BG and carb when adjusting and don’t just blindly bolus.
STRESS is the worst. Depending on the type of stress my sugars either go flying or hit rock bottom. Sounds like you are dealing with a lot, and that can be affecting you in the sugars, as well. It took me 19 years to get on the pump, but I wouldn’t go back because I love the flexibility. However, that is me. Diabetes is a such an individual type of disease. Everyone is different and we can only give suggestions on what works for us on here. Please connect with your doctor and call Medronic. You can YouTube a bunch of videos, as well. Don’t give up. Don’t be afraid to go back to MDI until you get more training or just stay on it. Plenty of young diabetics choose this route and are perfectly fine. It is all up to you comfort level and the level of health you are achieving. Life quality is important.
If I go back to MDI, what should I take> I am just thinking about wearing the pump at night and taking the common 1 unit of humalog per 15 carbs, during the day when I eat, then round 8pm hook the pump back up? SO So, what cha think?
I am sooooo used to this crazyness with the pump, that I am at the point that whatever happens, it just roles off my back like dew, as I put some salt in my right hand, and toss it over my left shoulder, for good luck:)
I was trying to attach a file to this email and included the bio that I have been writing about being in a horrible car wreck, and there is a diabetes section in it:) But it didn’t work:(
OH, and you are a ROCK STAR,HUH:) Can you mail me your autograph:)?
WOW I should go to bed, but I wana read a chapter or two of the pump stuff, time to get a learning more, thank you:)
Oh email me at rickyd227@gmail.com Ya get:)?
Ricki
my sensitivity is 36 my carb is 1:7
I’ll say it again… Chunk the CGM out the window for right now. Use just the pump and your glucose meter. I have used a MM pump for 11 years now and i really like them. The CGM doesn’t work for me. There are those of us T1’s that it won’t work well with and you may be one of them as well. It all gets so overwhelming sometimes. Breathe, relax…
You’re in the middle of a big learning curve, and it’s very stressful. Things will get better. I agree that it might be best to not use sensors/cgms right now. Give it a month or two, and then start up the cgms.
We started pumping and using cgms both 10 days after my daughter left the hospital. So we were new to Type 1, lost in the shuffle of our understaffed children’s hospital, and starting to pump and cgms at the same time. Not fun and not easy. The cgms was the deal breaker. It had to go in a drawer for a few months until we got our bearings straight.
How about trying MM’s online education class? Are there any local MM classes in your area? You do need a medical professional to work through your basal rates. Whoever RX’d it should have a nurse or somebody that you can call.
I can tell you the Revel is a great pump. Stick with it. Minimed cgms may or may not work well for you, but you can sort that out later. Some of your issues may look like absorption problems, but they may have more to do with basals that need adjusting now that your are strictly on short acting.
DEXCOM, there hasn’t been one negative issue that I have read about it!
vs medttronics one!
I have been consistently doing the online training, but, its kinda stupid because it doesn’t go over the, what ifs, of a pump in detail!
No classes in the area, at all, closest ones are closer to the CITY, about 30 miles away:(
Well absorbtion may be the issue, I was in a deadly car wreck 81101, and had a feeding tube in my abdomine, plus had 100 stiches in my abdomin, after getting surgery to reconnect the muscles. chest tubes, the whole 9 yards, but I did ten!
So yes, I have a lot of scar tissue I guess?
I do need the CGM, because I can not feel highs or lows at all! It could be 30 right now, and I wouldn’t have a clue? Or it could be 1200, and wouldn’t know, hold on lets see what IT IS?
Not bad, and a surprise, 79:) That’s rare!
I think it has do, with the fact that I, adjust my numbers myself!
Forget the medical practitioners! Best doctor is, yourself!