Insulin bomb yes or not?

@victorvazquez, you know that the problem that your son suffered was due to a failure in certain batch of reservoirs that in August of this year withdrew from the circulation?I am very interested in this issue and I had read.How did he take that serious situation?I tell you because my daughter, until now, when she has had some occlusion problem she has realized quickly, as she puts on 300 already begins to find fatal and we usually solve the subject quickly.
And Medtronic hasn't given the face?uffff ....

Hi! I have been with the bomb for a long time, almost seven years, from fifth grade.My experience with the insulin bomb is more than recommended, since I have had a rather movidita adolescence in relation to diabetes my quarterly hemoglobins were between eight and nine, in the last two years I have gone from 9% on occasion,But half a year ago that my hemoglobins have dropped considerably (compared to the previous ones, of course), my last hemoglobin was 7'5 %.My glycometer average has dropped considerably too, before it was around 170-180mg/dl and now rarely goes from 160mg/dl, in fact, I have had 130mg/dl socks in recent months.
My message to all those diabetic people who read this and have doubts about the insulin pump is that, if you have the possibility, if you are considering the change to bomb, do it, do not lose anything and have everything to win: a more controlEasy, you will not have to click on each meal, in short, quality of life.And, if for the reason that is not doing well, it does not convince you or you simply do not like it, you can always return to the insulin bolis and continue as until now.
Greetings!

@vandorta26 but how do you know that you have it well hooked?The part that enters the body is not seen.

Well, very easy, if the glycemia are fine, it was well placed.The few times that my catheter folded, I realized when I did a glucose control and see that I did not go down in any way.I put another and ready.

@prado that is clear the problem is that you realize when you have very high blood glucose and correct it in those cases is something more complex and given my state that I am pregnant right now because I do not like to realize when I am 500 since I can causeBaby problems

@laurita11977 you measure half an hour or 3/4 hour after putting it, if your goumia remains is that it is fine and if you are somewhat higher you can intuit that something does not work well.However, this happens on timely occasions.

@victorvazquez, please, if you have occasion to spend tell us more exactly how that serious situation occurred.My daughter has been bombing for almost 9 years and I still have a hard time explaining what could happen to you, regardless of the problem your bomb had.

Laurita is that you should measure yourself as Velia tells you, half or one hour after the change of catheter in case something is wrong, you should not wait for you to up 500, there is no other way to know if the catheter is not inserted or not inserted.

But when do you make the change?They told me that just before eating to be able to detect whether or not the problem is well placed or not, if I do it that way when I want to realize it has shot up, also taking into account that in case you have a eating, you have aLittle peak, when you tell yourself that it is something else because it has gone out of my hands.I have thought about making the change when you see it stable and not when I go to eat.

You should not change it or x the night of eating.

Hello! Well, I know that it is well hooked .... well ... I know why my glucose levels are good, sometimes I notice the insulin hahaha, and from time to time I have the mania to touch the catheter and press alittle inside ...

Velia, in this link you can see the statement that Medtronic sent us just 1 year after the episode so serious that my son happened where he warns us of the batch defects of consumables and the risk that entails:
Link 4.
Medtronic initially accepted his responsibility and wantedThe defective list.
vavg1972@hotmail.com

@victorvazquez, that statement already knew it through a forum user, Owash ... We made 3 lots of affected reservoirs, but at no time we noticed anything apparent, fortunately.
My question goes beyond the technical and beyond that Medtronic's response to this incident has been more or less accurate.Unfortunately, the pump is still a device that we know that it can fail, in fact when using a pump it is very important to measure more frequently than when feathers are used, precisely to be able to detect any failure ... My question is rather how it producedThe situation, because unless you have been with hyperglycemia for many hours and also with ketone bodies, it is somewhat rare that such serious situation occurs, so suddenly.I hope I explained.

Hi Victorvazquez:
I insist on what Velia tells you, what happened to make your son reach that serious situation?How many times glycemia is measured up to date?It would be good if you told us in the forum, from the experiences of others is how you learn.

intruda said:
man ... to see ... depends on what you wear, if it is marked ... but as I don't care, I don't give importance... where I carry it, on the gutter, it also depends on whether you have a lotLiga ... I have made a zumba with the bomb and as I hooked it with a clamp the bra, or flinch ... and as for the pool, I have taken it, and since I am not to be much in theWater, I have unplugged it, I have given myself the dip and when I have returned to the towel I have plugged back ... for what they have told me, I can disconnect 30 minutes if modifying anything, but if you are going to be disconnectedMore time or all day or something escort, there are some guidelines I think, but I don't know how they work ...

What requirements do they ask to request an insulin bomb?Thank you

I think I wrote but I don't see it
I am 6 years old with diabetes and also my diabetologist I recommend the pump a lot, I have extremely labile diabetes.I do not decide, I am 67 years old and I have already adapted to many things in my life and it costs me another one
And on the other hand I am with some episodes of ups and downs that I cannot control, and I do not know what to attribute it
I am afraid that the bomb is one more issue to not be calm and not a solution

miracles said:
I think I wrote but I don't see it
I am 6 years old with diabetes and also my diabetologist I recommend the pump a lot, I have extremely labile diabetes.I do not decide, I am 67 years old and I have already adapted to many things in my life and it costs me another one
And on the other hand I am with some episodes of ups and downs that I cannot control, and I do not know what to attribute it
I am afraid that the bomb is one more issue to not be calm and not a solution

Hello, I answer you because I see recent date, but I think the thread is old.I have around your years and have been bomb for about 5. Let's see, I think it is quite simple to explain.

Control through delayed insulin and Bolus is imperfect, essentially due to the first (although both factors interact).Your basal insulin needs change over 24 hours, and they can also exist, because no, weekly, monthly, seasonal cycles, etc.You cannot regulate this with a delayed insulin, by its very nature, because it is something that has been delayed 12-24 and that's it.

With a continuous infusion pump of fast insulin, you can program the basal pattern you want.If you need less at night, then at night, if you need more when you go to the beach, then.There is no problem, it is an issue that you must solve together with your endocrine, who knows perfectly how to do it.

Therefore, it is much better control than injections.The only paste is to be plugged in all the time to a break, but that, over the years, is less and less importing to you.I no longer go out on Fridays through the city's bars to see what I fell to take me to bed and hit a good dust.Now I take care that the little kid studies what he owes and at 11 I'm going to the camita with my wife every night.

My advice, that of an old and experienced type I diabetic, is to pay attention to your endocrine and put a bomb.Speaking in terms of glycosilada, I was in 6.4 with slow insulin and manual control.With a bomb he went down to 6.0, and a little more with continuous sensors instead of capillaries.Now, with closed loop, 5.7.I don't know social security what gives you type 2, I suppose it depends on each case, but my advice is that you put the maximum they give you.Good luck.

Hello, my name was Marta and I took the bomb with the sensor more than 6 years ago and I spent how I had a gyted of 12 and it could not be had the same doubts that you noticed it would bother me, etc. But it was putting it on and seeing it and seeingthat my gyzada improved a lot and I said I do not care about the quality of life. Seeing at the beginning is a world because it is something that we do not know but it is easy to carry and easy to drive and then you do. I do sportsAnd great I have always placed it in the bra in the middle of the breasts and very well and it does not show and as they say you take off to click so many times a day the catetes are changed every 3 days and if you carry a glymia sensor if it does not tell you theMachine nothing you do only when you change the sensor that is 7 days that you do 1 glycemia to calibrate the machine but all this if they put it you will see it. But I tell you to try it and you will see how well. A greeting

If the catheter is not injecting the insulin jumps the alarm of the pump, at least in the 780 that they use and those who have d city, in 6 months my glycosylated under 2 points and the time in the range of more than 80% and without hypos.

.The bombs are evolving very fast.The day will come when they are autonomous and the only treatment, at least for type1.