Good post on pumping

ComputerZen.com – Scott Hanselman’s Weblog – Medtronic Minimed 508 Insulin Pump vs. my New Paradigm 512 Insulin Pump and Blood Glucose Meter

Though I disagree on a couple of things .

Personally I prefer the Animas, but there is a funny thing about insulin pumpers — we’re even more adament about our choice of technology than PC vs Mac wars. My theory is that it is because its attached.

I also disagree about handling the insulin stacking thing, and so far, the two CDE’s I work with agree, and think the Minimed thing is a bit nuts.

I avoid insulin stacking by taking in account of the insulin on board at the time of the correction, NOT at the next meal. In fact, and I think I posted about this recently, I’m careful to only correct once during a time period. Thus, if I ate at noon, and correct at 2:00, I don’t correct again at dinner. I will correct, however, 2 hours after dinner, with two corrections in one day but I haven’t had to do that in a long time.