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Minimed 780g ruined my life

  
PatricioJB
04/30/2024 4:21 p.m.

Hello, I have been a type 1 diabetic for approximately 35 years.I am 41 years old and, at first, I used syringes with rapid insulin and NPH.With this treatment I spent a lot of time on the floor, since I suffered very severe hypoglycemia;I even broke a couple of teeth because of them.

Eventually they switched me to ultra-rapid and ultra-slow insulin and, after about three months of adjusting doses, I began to feel much better.After about 10 years, in my country (Chile), I was eligible for an insulin pump.Here they don't give them to everyone: you have to pass several evaluations and, if you meet the requirements, they provide it to you through a law called Ricarte Soto.

The problem is that I have been on the pump for almost three months and I feel like I have lost all my quality of life.I'm afraid of going out, I'm afraid of going out to eat, and I'm even afraid of being at home without having a jar of sugar next to me, because I have frequent hypoglycemia, a lot of it.

My doctor has tried to adjust the ratios, the sensitivity, the target (which is currently 120 mg/dl, although I still reach 78 and I'm already starting to shiver) and the duration of the insulin, which I have set to 3 hours, but there is no way: I still have constant hypoglycemia.

From what I see in the application reports, many of the hypoglycemias are caused by the basal that the pump administers to me and, on other occasions, by autocorrections.It seems to me that these do not wait long enough for the insulin to take effect.For example, if you have to administer 3 units, you distribute them into up to 6 microboluses.However, if after 20 minutes the glucose has not dropped, correct again and again.When the first boluses start to take effect – which, from what I have observed, is usually about an hour later – my body is already flooded with insulin and I end up going into hypoglycemia.

I know that you can't directly modify the basal or the autocorrections, so I don't know what to do anymore.I have even seriously considered going back to insulin pens.

Has something similar happened to anyone?How have you solved it?What could I do on my part?I haven't been able to sleep straight all this time, something that didn't happen to me before, and it has me completely stressed.

Oh, and it doesn't help me much with carb counting either.If I spend only 10 grams, my blood sugar skyrockets.

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marine
04/30/2024 4:55 p.m.

Good, what I read you would put the focus on 3 aspects.

-Re fast insulin you use (it is not the same fiasp as Humalog or Novorapid)
-Precision of the sensor with respect to capillary
-Cánula and insertion zone

Apart from that the pump makes you have to be methodical with meals, your hypos are between hours?are they postpandrial ???

You have commented your story but not your day to day to know what is happening there.

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PatricioJB
04/30/2024 5:12 p.m.

hello,

They are usually during the night, when I sleep, or 4 hours after eating, so it no longer passes insulin or carbohydrates.

marine said:
good, I from what I read would focus on 3 aspects.

You have commented your story but not your day by day to know what is happening there.

marine said:
-fast insulin you use (it is not the same fiasp as Humalog or Novorapid)

Here Novorapid is used, by the hospital system they give only that, and buying them is too expensive.
marine said:
-precision of the sensor with respect to capillary

When glycemia is in the 70/180 range, no more than 10 is the difference, but when there is hyper or hyper, it rises up to 40 or more difference
marine said:
-cannula and insertion zone

Abdomen and back
Apart from that the pump makes you have to be methodical with meals, your hypos are between hours?are they postpandrial ???

In case I have a regularly normal day, breakfast telling the carbohydrates, a grainCarbon in the body, nor the pre -food bolus.

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Ruthbia
04/30/2024 5:41 p.m.

I do not use pump but the configuration of bowling and corrections can be changed.
You will have to learn to handle it well.
Or go to the doctor and tell you how to do it.
I was recently with a person with a bomb eating and he changed his doses according to what we ate the weekend.

Lada enero 2015.
Uso Toujeo y Novorapid.
  
JuanSolo
04/30/2024 7:56 p.m.

patriciojb said:
hello,

They are usually during the night, when I sleep, or 4 hours after eating, so it no longer passes insulin or carbohydrates.

marine said:
good, I from what I read would focus on 3 aspects.

You have commented your story but not your day by day to know what is happening there.

marine said:
marine said:
-fast insulin you use (it is not the same fiasp as Humalog or Novorapid)

Here Novorapid is used, by the hospital system they give only that, and buying them is too expensive.
marine said:
marine said:
-precision of the sensor with respect to capillary

When glycemia is in the 70/180 range, no more than 10 is the difference, but when there is hyper or hyper, it rises up to 40 or more difference
marine said:
marine said:
-cannula and insertion zone

Abdomen and back
Apart from that the pump makes you have to be methodical with meals, your hypos are between hours?are they postpandrial ???

In case I have a regularly normal day, breakfast telling the carbohydrates, a graincarbon in the body, nor the bolus pre food.

At 12:50 you are in the end of the fast effect that has put the bomb for breakfast.
This is the problem, the effect of this insulin is too long, for a bomb.If you know the hours you are going to give you a hypo, you have to advance and eat something.With a fruit it can be enough.

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Regina
05/01/2024 10:45 a.m.

I think you don't have it adapted well.I do not use a pump, but I understand that those who use it modify what is necessary, even in sections.
They should have given you a course before putting it on.
If the pump is not going to solve anything for you, try the slow Toujeo, it is flatter than the Lantus and gives much less hiccups.

Hija de 35 años , diabética desde los 5. Glico: normalmente de 6 , pero 6,7 la última ( 6,2 marcaba el Free)
Fiasp: 4- 4- 3 Toujeo: 20

  
SilviaGRZ
05/01/2024 10:49 a.m.

Can't you go to the endocrine and return to the feathers ...?Or what adjusted it?Any course ...?
That is not life ... neither are hypoglycemia good and so often ...

Silvia (España)
Comenzando con Ypsopum!! (Humalog Jr + Toujeo).
Díabética desde los 4 años. Ahora tengo 40.
Hbg oscilante.
  
PatricioJB
05/02/2024 6:26 p.m.

I have already decided to return to the bolis, with the three -one I used before I did not generate so many hypos, I already request time with the endocrine, unfortunately in me it did not work, as each diabetic say it is a separate system

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Cristobal.Cortes
06/14/2026 6:29 p.m.

Hello.Your case is strange.The 780G is precisely one of the things it does very well is avoid hypoglycemia.You can lower the active insulin time to 2 hours, but you can change little else.The bowling is still manual, and the basal (+autocorrections) is adjusted automatically, you can't touch anything, and that's what seems to be wrong with you, as you say.It's very strange.My experience was just the opposite.

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