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Pump Notes

[2009]

This post is a tad overdue. I’ve been on the Animas 2020 insulin pump for just over a week.

With only one very explainable hypo early Saturday morning (lots of activity on Friday plus a party), I’ve been going great. Two site changes on my own so far – one last Friday and one yesterday. Both went well, although I was a little worried about the one yesterday, but it turned out ok.

There’s no doubt that my blood sugar levels are really great, especially compared to this time 6 months ago on MDI. I’m astounded at the freedom this pump gives me.

Yes you need to test lots, but on MDI you should be doing the same if you want good BGLs. For the rest, it’s so easy!

I uploaded a food database and it went fine. In Australia, the food database doesn’t come installed.

I’m downloading pump data every few days because my DE needs to see what still has to be tweaked. We’ve already upped my basal by .1 an hour, and for some times during the day, maybe it’s a tad too much. I’m just waiting for a call from me DE to see what can be tweaked from a full week of data.

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Diabetes Types

Type 1 Diabetes autoimmune
Type 2 Diabetes many forms of non-autoimmune diabetes in both thin and overweight people
LADA - Latent Autoimmune Diabetes of Adulthood officially classified as Type 1, or Type 1.5, a slow onset form of T1
Gestational Diabetes onset in pregnancy, often disappears after birth
MODY at least 6 forms of gene mutation causing defects in insulin production
PCOS & Type 2 polycystic ovarian syndrome and T2 often go together
NDM neonatal diabetes mellitus
Type AB unofficial term T1 with insulin resistance
MIDD maternally inherited T2 with some deafness
FPLD children with unusual fat distribution at puberty who develop insulin-resistant diabetes that are one of the following: type A syndrome, leprechaunism, and Rabson-Mendenhall syndrome
TNDM babies needing insulin at birth but not later in infancy. May again develop diabetes later in childhod/adulthood, may not require insulin treatment.
Diabetes associated with Friedreich's ataxia, cystic fibrosis, and hemochromatosis.
KPD ketosis-prone diabetes (KPD) is a widespread, emerging, heterogeneous syndrome characterized by patients who present with diabetic ketoacidosis or unprovoked ketosis but do not necessarily have the typical phenotype of autoimmune type 1 diabetes.

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