Another one with type 1 here for 19 yrs and it does not seem to make any difference to my levels, i did keep a very close eye on them when i started vaping but now i don't even think about it.
crustyfolker how do you find the pump ???? i have been trying to get one but down here they just say no it costs to much so still injecting.
It would be intresting to know your thoughts on them.
thanks
Hi , well let me say this the pump is the best thing since sliced bread, i was injecting 5 times a day 3 long acting insulin injections and 3 injections ie 1 for each meal.
i was on 72 units a day just as long acting dose plus about 40-50 units a day for meals so well over 100 units per day, but i was finding myself ill all the time with very high sugars. What was happening was the long acting insulin breaks down over a matter of 8 to ten hours but due to the high amount i probably wasn't getting it all to absorb properly.
the 72 units is now replaced by about 27 units which the pump gives me each our over the hour and is tailored for different times of the day. i.e the dose is higher for some hours and lower for others depending on when as your needs differ. The pump requires filling and changing every 3 days so its one injection every 3 days rather than 5 a day. the pump allows you to eat when and how much you like. You just programme in your blood sugar and how much carbs you are eating and the pump will tell you the correct dose, it also adds or minus's depending on your blood suger, so if you are say 3 it would in my case minus 1 unit from the total so it will get me back to 6 but still give the correct dose for the remainder to break down the carbs, again this will depend on a ratio which for me alters depending on what time of day it is.
the downside of starting a pump is getting everything to balance, i suffered some severe hypo's at first due to the need to lower some of the amounts at various times of the day. obviously this can change as time goes on and excercise will also require a short adjustment to keep your sugar high enough.
the pump has given me the best control i have ever had apart from my first couple of years of Diabetes and in truth it is as close to a pancreas as can be for now. Injecting doesn't give you any freedom as you have to stick to set times and you push the whole amount in in one go rather than with the pump you can set the insulin to go in over the space of say half hour for food which is good with food that breaks down slower as it prevents you going low taking lucozade to put you right then finding by the next meal your blood sugar is now high due to the lucozade intake and the food instead of the food the insulin was meant to break down
there is probaly loads more to say about pump treatment but i will say you have no choice but test blood sugar 4 times a daymore if you feel low or high sugar.
an easy way to explain learning about the use of a pump that some people on the forum would understand is it is like learning how to use a smok xcube 2but it is worth learning because of the results and quality of control it gives.
would you like to ask anything more if so please do
recently saw my specialist and he was pleased I was off the ciggies, didnt seem to comment on any effects of me vaping.
