Comment by asyx
1 hour ago
That’s kinda why I don’t want a pump. I’d rather deal with it myself than have some garbage corporation cut every corner and save every cent they can on a device that is keeping me alive.
I’d rather have a glucose pump to be honest. I don’t need long lasting insulin so I don’t really need to care about dying in my sleep but lows scare me more than highs.
I mean I'd far rather have the pump than not, also a t1d.
I dont bother wearing it at night though. All my blood sugar does is decline overnight, and the pump isn't the signal that things are going awry, that's the GCM. The GCM will still signal the pump, my phone and my watch to wake me if I need to eat carbs (vanishingly rare) and the pump never changes my blood sugar overnight anyway as far as I can tell.
So I disconnect it, put it back on in the day so I can manage things while I eat food.
You don’t have dawn syndrome? Mine shoots up to 200 in the morning without food. If I don’t eat breakfast I take 5 units fast acting in the morning to keep the levels down.
I just don’t see pens as so much of a hassle that I’d give up the control of a pen for the convenience of a pump.
For my wife, when on lantus and novolog ( no pump ) the overnights were always high blood sugars . The pumps definitely help , but in retrospect she also stopped eating gluten around the same time. The no gluten diet helped a lot .
Side bar having been around the dexcom for 10 years now . The old/original audible alarms were easy to understand. Low crescendo for going low , low repeats for low alarm and the reverse for high events. With the x2 and g6 i literally have no idea what the beeps mean anymore. This alarm fatigue is bad and i wonder if this contributes to the authors issue too. Was there some warning she missed?