Yep — for the past 4 years. Wonder if it will ever happen? Probably about the time I buy a Dexcom.
Abbott’s new Navigator device, for continuous blood-glucose monitoring, is approaching approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Source: Bloomberg.com: Worldwide
Did I miss something?
We’re we promised that the Abbott / Therasense Navigator would be out this year? Guess it didn’t happen.
How many times do YOU give your rights away? I know I have.
Kevin, M.D. – Medical Weblog: Diabetic Sues Over Nightclub’s Syringe Ban
Diabetic Sues Over Nightclub’s Syringe Ban
Summer before last, I didn’t participate in my Master’s graduation because they didn’t allow purses and I didn’t feel like fighting it.
I have chosen not to go for a particular certification because dealing with the diabetic limitations was just too much work?
Maybe we DO need to start fighting more.
I’ll start off by admitting I’m not a fan of Minimed, and doing a search on Minimed on this site will explain why.
It’s odd on how people get polarized but as I often say — we are attached to our pumps.
The Seattle Times: Search Results
The pump, about the size of a cellphone, had a safety feature designed to stop the insulin flow in emergencies like this. But the feature wasn’t on. The pump had been shipped to Lane with the option turned off, and the device’s instructional video devoted only 15 seconds to it, saying nothing about why the feature should be used.
I don’t blame Mini-med on this. I do blame her CDE and the endo that prescribed the pump, especially when you see later on in the article:
On Oct. 25, 2000, a Wednesday, Sylvia met with Emily Holing, a diabetes educator at the UW clinic. Holing hooked up Sylvia’s pump and showed her how to use it.
This same afternoon, Holing documented two episodes of hypoglycemia for Sylvia, 15 minutes apart. Each time Sylvia needed to drink orange juice.
Sylvia had pizza that evening, then drove home. She wouldn’t be heard from for three days.
Friends and family tried calling Sylvia on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, leaving 17 messages. Sylvia’s twin sister lived three hours away. On Saturday she traveled to Sylvia’s and, with another relative, went inside. They found Sylvia on her bed, unconscious, lying in vomit. Her insulin pump was attached and running.
I wasn’t there, I’m not a medical practitioner, but it sounds like that they were probably having problems because she still had her old basal insulin in her system. Thats why I don’t like basal insulins (slow acting, Lantus, NPH, what have you). You don’t have control of them once you take them.
But I blame the CDE for not making sure that she had a support system in place AND the patient for not having a support system in place. There should have been someone very close to her until they knew she knew how to operate the pump.
The only way I’d blame Minimed is if they were responsible for the pump training. And I checked — the Animas pumps apparently ship with this feature off too — mine was and it isn’t something I ever think about. I “knew” it was there, but never really thought about it. I have mine on now, but it’s set to turn off after 24 hours.
Speaking of not getting excited — if you go back years ago, you’ll see how excited I was about the Therasense Navigator. It was about the time I started the blog. In fact, there was a time when I was more excited about a CGMS than I was about a pump.
Well, it’s December 18th, and we still don’t see one. Yeah, we’ve got the Meditronics device and the Dexcom device, but I’m still not excited about it. I still haven’t bought either.
I think that the CGMS is probably pretty good for the average Type 1 diabetic — they tend to lose the ability to know that they are low or are going low, and I still have that. If I lose that, I’ll think about spending the extra money.
I would LOVE to be able to rent one to check basal rates. But in the meantime, I’ll save my money.
I saw a commercial earlier this week for a diabetes store in Fort Worth and decided to visit it. I came away with $50 worth of supplies.
they were all items I had thought about buying on the internet but wanted to seem them in purpose first.
They do have a website at www.diabetesdesign.com and in the future will probably use it.
I will be frank they do a huge business in sugar free stuff but I don’t waste the energy and calories on that.
I know that most people have insurance electives to deal with this time of year. We do our in May for August. (Remember, I’m a school teacher).
One of the best things you can do if you have a chronic illness, is to set up a Flexible Spending Account, if you can. Everything you spend out of it comes from pre-Tax dollars.
Our plan gives us a credit card. About once a year I have to send in a bunch of receipts, but that’s the whole extent of the paper work.
It is definitely worth it.
A Lifetime Of Diabetes by Teresa Ollila
A Lifetime of Diabetes by Teresa Ollila
One of the best things you can do as a user, is to positively NOT click on any advertisements that you see on the battlediabetes.com website. They are attempting to make money on their site and use click on advertisements (mine doesn’t at the moment).
If they lose revenue, they will go away.
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