I’ve put in the first Inset too — no changes in how to “install”. The insertion itself seemed quieter and easier but I’ll know better after I’ve used several sets. The bandage part and the connector seem larger, but not excessively so. There is more white to put an IV3000 around if you feel the need.
So far nothing to object to — still don’t have to look at the needle which is good for me.
They sent me a WHOLE box of Inset IIs to try. I signed up for that about a month ago. i will say that I have loved every product I’ve tried — okay, a sample size of 3.
But the part I love about this, is that it is a whole box. I’ve always said you have to try three of anything and probably a whole box of a set — I found that out the hard way, I tried the Simple Choice — order a full box and had to return them after about 5 as each time I used them the needle seemed bigger to me.
Yeah, I have needle phobia bad.
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.
Even one of my students sent this to me. And no, I’m not excited. Do you know how many times they have cured diabetic mice?
Diabetic mice became healthy virtually overnight after researchers injected a substance to counteract the effect of malfunctioning pain neurons in the pancreas.
There is sort of a joke/saying among the diabetes community that diabetic mice must be easy to cure — and if you think about it, since they are artificially induced to be diabetic, curing them SHOULD be as easy.
When it results in an actual treatment, I’ll get excited. Until then … I’m going to get on with my life. And by the way, the worst thing that can happen is that diabetics get hope, decide not to take the care they need for good control AND then get to the cure point and find out they are incurable precisely because they didn’t take good enough care of themselves.
And I thought going to a workshop in Pittsburgh was a PITA.
It’s also sad on how hard it would be to actually live there with diabetes.
I got in another week — 35 minutes on the scheduled days, and got an extra 20 minute session in on Wednesday.
Exercise should be fairly easy the next two weeks — we finished school for the year on Friday. I’m planning on recharging.
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.