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Sounds like you better treat your missus well if you want to die of something other than your diabetes!
If I understand the 20 year plan....
(Now) - external sensor and pump, closed loop system.
- External pump, internal sensor
- internal refillable pump, internal sensor
- internal refillable pump with extremely fast-acting insulin for very quick blood sugar adjustment, internal sensor
- Then .... a miracle occurs and something permanent will be done. This will probably be too late for us old guys!
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They've been testing the internal pumps: the next big step will be in the insulin that is used.
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Does the display wash out in sunlight?
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How are people keeping there insulin cool, I am a t-2 but I use 2 forms on insulin multiple times each day and if I am away from the house for more than 4 hours I have to take insulin with me.
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When I was taking four shots each day: I'd just throw the insulin bottles into a small cloth cooler, and add a cold pack...
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Bob - Since you revived this post....
This isn't directly related to ryding with a pump, but...
Over Memorial Day I was in the North Georgia mountains and my pump died with a Motor Error - error code said I'd exposed it to EMP although I have no idea how. So, I drove into Blue Ridge on Saturday and waited until the local pharmacy opened up, bought syringes (I carry only a couple in my insulin supplies and knew I'd need more) and called my Dr. for a prescription for Lantis insulin. Many frustrating hours lated I started on trying to simulate a pump with a combination of Novalog and Lantis and my performance just sucked - I stayed over 200 for most of the extended weekend, and often crept well into the 300s.
I finally got my replacement pump the next Tuesday and life started returning to normal by late late that night, or as normal as it can be for us type-1s.
Long story short, I'm grateful for the pump! I don't know how I survived on just shots for so many decades.
Bob, still looking forward to your assessment of the closed loop pump. 2 guys at work are also being equipped with the new pump, so I'll let y'all know their experience as well.
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just turned 38 years Type 1
Use the Medtronic pump and enlite sensors. Due for the updated version mid 2019.
Still shopping for a Spyder so on two wheels.
I always check BS before leaving the house. As well as battery and reservoir level. I've been "pumping" since shortly after medtronic brought out the commercial line from research.
The doc I had used one also and was great at understanding and relating to what was happening.
First diagnosis way back was a blood sugar of 923. I thought I had the flu.
Had 2-3 trips to the ER each year with midnight lows prior to the pump. Not one since.
Still think it is kind of a pain in the ass, lol. But I'll deal with it versus the alternative issues.
Plus the wife kicks my butt occasionally to keep me on track.
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Originally Posted by Bob Denman
Did you get too close to a nuclear detonation?
Sorry to hear that you had to go "Old-School"... it's tough returning to your roots; isn't it?
Yes, MUCH tougher than I expected. I tried to simulate the pump with frequent shots but really didn't nail it. Plus, I found myself reaching for my hip to look at my current BS, which of course wasn't there.
I never went nuclear as in above 400 or below 50, but I was definitely armed and ready.
I don't get the next pump until August of 2018, so if my local fellow diabetics are still kicking with one I'll make the switch.
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My pump(mm723) expires on 6/28/17 and i'm hoping to get the 630g just for the bigger color screen, i don't use cgm so don't need the 670g just want to be able to see it!
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Originally Posted by Bob Denman
After six Months: I've been moved from the Medtronic 630, to the new 670 insulin pump.
This thing is designed to work with their latest Guardian Three Blood Glucose Sensors, and it really seems to be a big improvement.
The pump is "learning" all of the time. It will figure out when you're approaching a low blood glucose event, and shut down a preset period of time before that occurs. Once things start getting back to normal: it will resume doing it's thing!
Once it is in "Auto Mode": it takes over complete control of what used to be your Basal Rates of insulin delivery. It will constantly be checking your blood glucose levels, and making those tiny background adjustments that keep things running within normal limits.
It seems that they are giving the pump more autonomous control of things. That gives us a chance to find our trouble elsewhere!
But I'm gonna be a couple of weeks figuring out where they hid all of the control features...
I was JUST getting used to the 630!
They say I'm a type 2. On insulin completely now. Take 4 shots a day. Take 18 unit of humalog before each meal and 60 unit of Toujeo at night. All of this is with the pen. Like the pen better than the syringe. Been a type 2 for several years. Just last month I went to a specialist. Still in the testing mode on what is needed. It seemed all of a sudden I couldn't control my sugar with the pills. I know on what insulin I'm on I really have to watch what I eat. I might look into the pump myself. They had talked about a V-GO pump
David
Last edited by Warlock; 07-20-2017 at 10:22 AM.
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I've been a type-1 since 1964, taking hundreds of gallons of insulin since then.
The pump isn't a perfect answer to managing the diabetes, but I find it FAR easier and more consistent than shots, even very frequent shots. It works you to death with changing out the sensors and infusers and testing your blood sugar, but so do the syringes.
My A1C averaged over 8.0 before the pump, and hover around 7.0 since the pump.
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Last edited by Bob Denman; 07-20-2017 at 01:35 PM.
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Me too
Originally Posted by Warlock
They say I'm a type 2. On insulin completely now. Take 4 shots a day. Take 18 unit of humalog before each meal and 60 unit of Toujeo at night. All of this is with the pen. Like the pen better than the syringe. Been a type 2 for several years. Just last month I went to a specialist. Still in the testing mode on what is needed. It seemed all of a sudden I couldn't control my sugar with the pills. I know on what insulin I'm on I really have to watch what I eat. I might look into the pump myself. They had talked about a V-GO pump
David
I'm also T2, but after pills, insulin pens etc. stop working got a C-Peptide test and found out my Pancress quite making insulin,I'm now on my 3rd pump, just got the MM630G(i wont be going on the 670G as i don't do CGM) so far i like it as the big color screen is MUCH easier the read, but yes Bob i too am still learning all the buttons.
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1966 to Present
http://www.diabetesforecast.org/2014...life-list.html
Sorry they didn't print pictures of Spyder! Since the article, I have shipped my Spyder to California and ridden home solo and ridden down to Tail of The Dragon with a friend on his bike. When I got my pump, i figured out I had taken over 32,000 shots in my life. Dan
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