Insulin Pumps & Insulin Resistant Diabetics

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

The reason I don’t use a pump very often is because I’m insulin resistant. When I got my first pump in the 90’s, I was supposed to take 1 unit of insulin for every 2 carbs I ate. Since they don’t have any pumps that you can dial down that tight, I had to do the math before I took any insulin. It was a pain in the butt.

But worse, were the nasty infections in my belly. I know that I said that you could use insulin as a topical ointment for wound care, but when you try to pump 600 units of insulin into the same hole in 3 days, you can count on ending up with a nasty infection.

So, I tried using the insulin pump for basil stability only, and used a needle for boluses after eating. This actually worked pretty good, but there were still infections from time to time. But, putting 150 units through the tube, was way less stressfull on my body that pumping 600 units throug in the same 3 day period.

What I’m doing now is using Lantis, AKA the poor man’s insulin pump. Lantis is a 24 hour insulin that can give you pretty good daily control. You just take it once every 24 hours. lantis has done a great job of keeping my blood sugars under control without infections and the added expense of insulin pump supplies. (At $100.00 per bottle, I’m not sure where they came up with the “poor man’s insulin pump” BS, but it does work.)

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