Comments on: sugar over 600 http://www.type-1-diabetes.zolushka123.com/2007/01/22/sugar-over-600/ for anyone who has been touched by this disease Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:25:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Brianna Dorris http://www.type-1-diabetes.zolushka123.com/2007/01/22/sugar-over-600/#comment-4245 Brianna Dorris Sun, 28 Jan 2007 05:01:00 +0000 http://www.type-1-diabetes.zolushka123.com/2007/01/22/sugar-over-600/#comment-4245 Good Morning Lisa, I think you meant SET (not sight), as in never, ever leave your infusion set in for more than 3 days!!! I used infusion sets once in a great while for slightly longer than 3 days, but much after that ran into problems of one type or another, and knew full well I would. Pump PROTOCOL said 3 days and three days ONLY... at least before 2000. More than that was just begging for trouble of some kind. Were you trained differently on your pump (ie to keep the set in longer)? Having a splinter for more than a few minutes the body detects an "invader". Longer than three days with a single infusion set (think of an itty, itty-bitty IV for you non-pumpers) and it makes sense the body would go, ~...HEY wait a minute this thing is plastic, ~not of the body~ (silly Star Trek reference) an invader sent help to get rid of it... kind of deal. Every single time I disconnected for merely an hour, I rang the "DKA bell" in a way and to a severe degree I had never in the previous two-three decades, without the pump! Didn't take me long to decide... Jeff Good Morning Lisa,

I think you meant SET (not sight), as in never, ever leave your infusion set in for more than 3 days!!!
I used infusion sets once in a great while for slightly longer than 3 days, but much after that ran into problems of one type or another, and knew full well I would.

Pump PROTOCOL said 3 days and three days ONLY… at least before 2000. More than that was just begging for trouble of some kind. Were you trained differently on your pump (ie to keep the set in longer)?

Having a splinter for more than a few minutes the body detects an “invader”. Longer than three days with a single infusion set (think of an itty, itty-bitty IV for you non-pumpers) and it makes sense the body would go, ~…HEY wait a minute this thing is plastic, ~not of the body~ (silly Star Trek reference) an invader sent help to get rid of it… kind of deal.

Every single time I disconnected for merely an hour, I rang the “DKA bell” in a way and to a severe degree I had never in the previous two-three decades, without the pump! Didn’t take me long to decide…

Jeff

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