New with the insulin pump: YPSOMED MYLIFE YPSOPUMP + FREESYLE FREE 3

Hello!I update this topic a little and my half-friendship with "Antonia" (my Ypsopump bomb).

I've been with her for 13 days now, and I'm going through many phases (like grieving) but spoiler: although I'm giving her many opportunities, I'm already halfway to accepting her.I know.

💉Sometimes I feel like I have less freedom than with pens.TRUE.But it's also a pleasure not to get pricked (especially at dawn) and there are times when I have to touch myself over my clothes because I don't notice it and I think I've lost it (I think this is a good sign).

Even so, I have to be careful (it depends on where I take it to go to the bathroom, change at work... I have pulled it a few times, and I was surprised that the adhesive holds.)

I still have to face doing sports (I have walked, a lot and well), the beach, and some events.But day to day well.At work (I am a healthcare worker) I forget about it sometimes and I am with my patients up and down making effort and effort and the constant fear that I had that it would not infuse, the tube would bend, etc., has almost disappeared.The movements I make are now more natural, hahahaha.

💉I'm still changing certain values, because they give you the pump with a guideline, but you have to adjust it.The endocrinologist and the algorithm have been and are conservative and cautious... They prefer the hypers to the hypos.

I have an appointment in a month, and I can't wait... I have always been very active in my regimens with pens, why not with the pump?(I'm being cautious, yes).

It's as if I had received a suit in my size, to which certain adjustments still need to be made to make it fit.'

The algorithm begins to be effective 3-4 weeks after use.

💉Sometimes I would throw it out the window.YEAH.

I have felt a little cheated, a little scammed... And other times happy.

And I caught it at a time of incredible wear and tear on the pens (sleepless nights for a couple of years) and I thought this was the absolute and immediate solution.

At first the novelty factor creates a lot of perspective, but then you see that Diabetes is there and oh surprise!On top of that, you have a machine that is a little silly at first, what do you say, and for this I carry it around all day?

But I have to cultivate patience."Rome was not conquered in a day."At times I have had numbers that I consider a scandal, but I am also having better nights in general.

💉I still have Diabetes, MY Diabetes, only now although I know it inside out (although sometimes it does whatever it wants and leaves my mouth open) I have to treat it with another "treatment" that I have to get used to.That it is managed differently... and that surely when I climb this whole mountain of new things, it will go better.

I have good times, and bad times.It's not as easy as putting it on and haha!

Sometimes I don't understand her, sometimes she doesn't understand me...

It's been 36 years with feathers, and it's a big change.I want to leave this written here in case anyone feels or may feel identified in the future.

This is not the cure, this is not an artificial pancreas connected to your brain.That's what many people believe now when they find out that I'm carrying a bomb.

"You don't do anything now, do you?"

NO.I keep counting gr.(and sometimes I'm wrong), as it were and sometimes it's an ordeal and "the brown mess", I still take my glucose pills (because there are hiccups), I still sometimes have to take control because there are hypers... Let no one fool you, no one is 100% in range, BEEEEEEERO, I know that the treatment, the numbers and the way of continuing with diabetes and life are going to improve.Here we continue and if you allow me I will continue telling you!

@SilviaGRZ I am not a pump user nor am I going to be, and although it may seem incredible I have managed to control my diabetes with my chemotherapy.Good and bad times.

But I love reading you and your adventure with "Antonia".I'm sure it's going to be a great and good friendship.

Waiting for your new post.

@Ruthbia I'm very happy to hear from you!!

You really are an example of diabetes care and management.We keep reading!

A hug.

@SilviaGRZ, if you manage to improve the glycosylation and sleep peacefully, it will already be well worth it.A little more patience and you will get it, keep telling us.

I am very glad that you are now recovered @Ruthbia, a big hug.

@Regina I'm so glad to read you!

I will tell you news.Hopefully it will be my great discovery after the sensors back in the day!

Hello @SilviaGRZ!

I'm glad that little by little you are adapting.It is true that with the pump you do not forget about diabetes and that it is very conservative with the corrections, but I think that when you get the hang of it and the algorithm starts to work, you will see greater benefits!

My endocrinologist also suggested I lower the carbohydrate ratio in case I was wrong, in case it helps you.You have to see how it works best for you.

For me, the function of adding food or snack (less than 20 g HC without adding manual bolus) does not work for me, for example.I tell him that I am going to eat 10 grams of HC and it always increases because he is not able to give me enough insulin to control that, so for me that option of adding food without giving a manual bolus does not exist.

I do also use the function of adding slow absorption food a lot, because it seems to correct better when I eat protein/fat.

As for the boost, the salesperson told us to use it very very little in a very very exceptional way and that's what I did at the beginning.Until my endocrinologist told me to use it more and since then I have been doing much better.I use it especially when I start to get high after eating, without expecting to reach 180 or 200.

A while ago I was in a chat with girls on Telegram who used ypsopump and one of them said that if boost is used a lot the algorithm does not learn.Does anyone else know if this is correct?My experience since I use it frequently is that I have much better levels (although I don't know if I'm harming the algorithm).

Well, I honestly don't see the point in not hitting boost because it goes up and what do you do?If you don't hit boost, doesn't it go down?And you stay there at 220-230?Yes, as always, I take 6-8 units of rapid, if I eat 80 grams of pasta I put on 8 units and I know that at 2 hours it will start to rise and I apply bolus, that's how I keep it and at 2 hours another of 4 or 6 units and I'm fine at night, the pump should do that, right?Anticipate using the sensor, eeehhh it rises up like the pancreas, but no, it's still a machine, what insulin do you use in the pump?

@Cuevast how are you?how are you going?

It's true that the algorithm is very conservative, that's why I had to adjust it a little to make it "chicha", even so, I had to put in some bolus to correct, because sometimes things got out of hand...

I do have around 180mg/dL going up, it is true that I can use the Boost, but when it goes beyond that and goes into a spiral... it doesn't help me.I have to put in a small bolus and then wait for the algorithm to correct itself.Sometimes I also put it on for 20-30' while the bolus takes effect to slow down that rise.

The Ypsomed salesperson told me that if you frequently use Boost and Ease off the algorithm does not learn well.

On the other hand, I haven't even used the "Snack" mode, because I mean... I eat 10g and I assure you that if I'm not hyper or I take insulin, it increases quite a bit...

I'm trying to manage "Slow absorbing food" well.Sometimes I give HC but those 3 hours sometimes fall short... I guess it depends on each person's digestion...

The truth is that I am much happier.Although when I change the cannula I am filled with fear for the first few hours in case the insertion has failed...

Have you ever had a "scare" about the cannula?Almost everyone tells me that if it fails and does not infuse well it is when changing it, that once you see that it works well it is very rare for it to stop working well... is that true?

Otherwise I think I'm starting to make sense of this.There are things that I doubt, that still scare me a little... But in general, glycemic variability has gone down a lot, the nights are better, and everything is better overall.I hope to achieve it, and I hope we will be "one" soon!

@RomaVictis Well, the pump, depending on how you have it programmed, is more aggressive or not... Lowering your blood glucose lowers it, but sometimes very little by little... It depends on the calculations that your endocrinologist makes or that you modify.

In my case, it was very conservative, and so was the bomb.So I lowered my hypers, of course... but after hours... Now it's not like that anymore.

But to get to this I have done bobbin lace, and also been patient.

Although it is also true that I try to "behave well", because although this corrects hypers, I don't give much room for them either...

In the end this is not an artificial pancreas.It helps to have better control, but without forgetting to count the HC correctly (which we can't miss every day, of course), not forgetting exercise, and good habits... you know!We still have Diabetes.And be careful... this is without counting the "just because" factor (as I call it) which is when you do "everything right" and just because it gets out of control and you don't know why and you curse everything!

I am especially noticing it at night... Around 2-3 a.m. always, always due to some metabolic function it began to rise uncontrollably... And by programming the pump I have managed to stop that, and avoid interrupting my sleep every night to prick myself and then try to continue sleeping... A crazy thing that I have had to do for years and it has affected me a lot (not resting) in many areas of my life...

@SilviaGRZ well wow, I thought it was the closest thing to an artificial pancreas and no, another thing is that you tell me, it's that I eat what I want, and that's not how it works, but on top of that you count the HC you eat little, you exercise, it only gives you the freedom of not depending on the needle always and being able to sleep, but apart from that it doesn't give you much freedom anymore, you go all day with the cable hanging and praying that the cannula doesn't fail, and you go with the thing hanging all day,For now I will continue with the pens and I will continue with my corrections with pens at 2-3 am although it has been weeks since I get a rise at night, removing this last night despite putting in quite quickly trying to correct I have been touching 180 all night and I have punctured myself 3 times from 2 to 6 it has not gone over 190 but it is very high for me and many hours, well you will continue telling how it is, cheer up,In the end, evaluate what gives you positive and what negative and decide, you would not be the first person to leave the pump, I left it after 3 years of use from 2001 to 2004, it did not have an algorithm or AI nor were there any sensors, they were capillaries and everything manual, and it was 1 unit/hour of basal, but well, I never did checks, in the end I left it out of boredom, I was 23 years old and I thought I had a hanging pancreas, anyway....