Re: Insulin - A Voice for Choice


"willbill" <trek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Elizabeth Blake wrote:

"willbill" <trek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

the other thing i've done this past 10 years
(at home) is preload my 30 unit syringes
(to 30 units) and use them till they're empty


I fill my pump reservoir with Humalog and use it until it's empty. :)


your reservoir is plastic, right?

so aside from cost and convenience
(which favor my approach), how is that
any different from what i'm doing? :)

bill

It's not different. Most pumpers seem to estimate how much insulin they'll
use in 3 days and fill their cartridge/reservoir with that amount. I can't
be bothered to guess and I hate tossing perfectly good insulin. So I just
fill & keep going until it's empty. My reservoir is plastic and I've had
problems using it for 2 weeks, even in hot weather.

I think if I tried your method I would end up accidentally injecting the
entire syring of insulin into myself. I had tried preloading syringes in
the past and couldn't do it. I'm also not very coordinated.


--
Liz
Type 1 dx 4/1987
Minimed Paradigm 715 5/2005


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