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I Am a Diabetic On An Insulin Pump

When I was little I had four injections a day. I did them myself once I started school. When I was 13 I had my first insulin pump. It gives me tiny bits of insulin every three minutes. And when I eat I test my blood glucose and tell my pump how many grams of carb and it calculates a dose of insulin and blu tooth’s the pump to give it. I just changed the line that goes from the pump to my body and the cannula which goes into my body.

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Pherick · 41-45, M

I just recently started using one of the 14 day kits for blood sugar testing. Just hold my phone to the tab and it gives me a sugar reading. Its been amazing. I imagine a pump would be the same. So much easier than shooting up insulin constantly.

MerchYMynydd · 22-25, F

Yes I got one of those. What’s amazing is the graph it prints out for the last 8 hours. Like I found out some nights I’m hypo all night! And I wondered why I had been depressed! @Pherick

Pherick · 41-45, M

@MerchYMynydd Yea I love that it keeps 8 hours of data in it and that I can get full daily graphs. It is wild to see how blood sugar is affected by things in the long term, not just a few sticks from certain time points.

MerchYMynydd · 22-25, F

Exactly. Before I was testing about 12 times a day but they were snapshots. Now I know what’s going on between. And it really helps. It’s saved me from a few hypos. Because maybe it’s 5.6 which is normal but the flash says going down rapidly so I test and tell it I’m going to take lucozade and it lets me without insulin. If you understand! @Pherick