[Diabetes-talk] using the insulin pump
d m gina
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Thu Mar 3 04:06:09 UTC 2011
Yes Mike I understand.
At this time the only shot I take is before the meal, then I'm on two pills.
I just thought if you were on insulin you didn't need the pills at the
same time.
I will ask my doctor though.
Yes Met formen causes the liver cancer.
My liver is tested every three months I'm told.
Now if it is or not I just go for the blood work, and the urine sample
they wish.
Original message:
> Remember: we are not doctors or medical personnel -- well, Lynn Bailiff is
> a CDE but other than that, we're simply layity with a bit more knowledge
> from experience than the general public has. You do what your doctor tells
> you unless you find it isn't working in which case, you pick another doctor
> if you can.
> I haven't heard of metformin being associated with cancer but I might have
> missed something. If you don't suffer side-effects from it, I'd keep taking
> it.
> Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of d m gina
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 7:28 PM
> To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] using the insulin pump
> Is this when you are taken off the pill, or still on the pill?
> I didn't know this, and will see my doctor in May.
> Does this matter where your a one c is?
> Even if it is good?
> I understand that the Met Formen causes cancer?
> If you get off this, are your chances better than not getting this ccancer?
> Original message:
>> Also, more and more studies are beginning to show that diabetic
>> complications are significantly reduced when type 2's are put on insulin
>> earlier rather than later.
>> Mike
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
>> [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of cheryl echevarria
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 9:15 AM
>> To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind
>> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] using the insulin pump
>> more and more doctors are putting diabetic on insulin, because it is more
>> affective then the pills, I keep up to date with my Primary Care, and
>> Endocrinologist and my Nephrologist who has taken care of my kidneys since
> I
>> had to go on Dialysis.
>> They have told me they have more and more type 2 having to take insulin
>> because either patients are not compliant meaning they don't follow
> doctors
>> orders, they don't have the insurance to cover them, and they are under so
>> much stress in every day things that it keeps their sugars high.
>> Also, my Kidney doctor, easier for me to write, told me on my last
>> appointment, that he is seeing and increase of diabetics on dialysis, and
>> more and more with type 2. Because the type 2s he is seeing also have
> high
>> blood pressure and high cholesterol, mostly because he says that to many
>> people listen to doctors that do not specialize in the disease like an
>> endocrinologist, or they refuse to go to the doctor.
>> Or they tell their families, that I am boarder line, no such thing.
>> Trying to keep on top of my own disease, and ask question since I am part
> of
>> DAN here in NY and National. That we all should be asking these
> questions,
>> they all affect us.
>> The biggest compliment you can pay me is to recommend my services!
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Bridgit Pollpeter<mailto:bpollpeter at hotmail.com>
>> To: 'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'<mailto:diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 12:01 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] using the insulin pump
>> My understanding has been that most type 2's can control things with
>> diet and/or oral medication. Most type 2's do not require insulin, but
>> you are not the first I have heard say this. I am no expert, but since
>> type 2's are still producing some level of natural insulin, and type 1's
>> do not produce insulin at all, this is of course why we are on insulin
>> from the start, maybe it is not as beneficial for type 2's to be on the
>> pump.
>> Not sure why type 2's using insulin are usually not elgible for the
>> pump. Some one should ask their doctor about this.
>> Bridgit
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:
>> diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org<mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org>
>> [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of d m gina
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 10:34 AM
>> To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org<mailto:diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] using the insulin pump
>> It is interesting to me, if the pump is this good, then why don't they
>> let type two diabetics have it as well, who are serious in keeping
>> numbers down.
>> I also would love to cut down on the shots each time before a meal. I'm
>> a very strong lady, where I will do my best to keep my numbers in a
>> good range.
>> If they go out of range in the two hundred area, then I know I can't
>> have this food that caused the number to rock as I call it.
>> The only way to learn and know is to try it and go from there. I know
>> you will do well, keep up the swell work.
>> Original message:
>>> I have been training on it for 1 day already and I have the pump on.
>>> for the 1st week they have saline in it so that I know what I am
>>> doing.
>>> I have some vision but not enough to read the LCD Screens.
>>> But it only has 5 buttons on it, and the person training me has worked
>>> with the blind before and I have the latest model from Medtronics, a
>>> little different then my daughter pump, she is sighted and has used
>> the
>>> pump for about 4 years.
>>> Nelson was not home when we were doing the training, the diabetic
>>> educator from my doctors office is training me on it. Since he knows
>>> me already and what I can handle and not.
>>> the buttons are raised on it, so far I am doing it correctly.
>>> and we practiced a few times putting the battery in, also how to
>>> change
>>> the sets, meaning filling the pump, and attaching it to my body, it
>> was
>>> hard at first, but now in less then 24 hours it has become second
>> nature to me.
>>> I am a fast learner, always was even when I was sighted.
>>> I am not saying that everyone will get it at first, but they will not
>>> have you use it with insulin in the pump until you can totally do it,
>>> and if you have a person who will help you change the pump when you
>>> need to fill it again, use them at first make sure that they are at
>> the
>>> training sessions with you.
>>> Let them watch you do it, and that you can do it yourself.
>>> If not then if you are a person that needs help use help nothing wrong
>>> in it.
>>> Using the pump over the needle has advantages, you have closer in
>>> range
>>> numbers with your readings because you have continuous insulin, also
>>> you are not counting carbs to figure out your before meal insulin, if
>>> you are 200 and you know that when you are this high before dinner, it
>>> is the same amount of insulin you will give yourself that you would
>>> with a needle.
>>> Also, you don't have to worry about sticking yourself, which I have
>>> done many of times.
>>> I may write something up for the Braille Monitor on a first time pump
>>> user from the needle.
>>> You will have better readings and you will feel better, and you will
>>> not need lantus when you use the pump either.
>>> The biggest compliment you can pay me is to recommend my services!
>>> Cheryl Echevarria
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>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Mike Freeman<mailto:k7uij at panix.com<mailto:k7uij at panix.com>>
>>> To: 'Diabetes Talk for the
>> Blind'<mailto:diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org<mailto:diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 9:42 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Talking Insulin pump is it out yet?
>>> Bridgit:
>>> In order to admit that a talking pump might be useful, one must
>> acknowledge
>>> to oneself and to others that one is blind. How many of those
>> dealing with
>>> diabetic retinopathy do you suppose are ready to do that? Of those
>> who do
>>> admit it, how many use a pump? I suspect that this last number is
>> perhaps a
>>> thousand at most. In other words, there is little economic
>> incentive
>>> tempting pump manufacturers to enter this extremely limited market.
>> This
>>> situation won't ultimately change until we secure passage of our
>> Technology
>>> Bill of Rights for the Blind.
>>> Mike Freeman
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From:
> diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org<mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org<mai
> lto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org%3Cmailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.o
>> rg>
>>> [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bridgit
>> Pollpeter
>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 5:03 PM
>>> To: 'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'
>>> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Talking Insulin pump is it out yet?
>>> Since diabetes is one of the leading causes of blindness, you would
>>> think they would develop more tools and items like talking insulin
>>> pumps.
>>> My nurse educator pushes for this whenever she speaks at
>> conferences, or
>>> attends seminars. It just makes sense.
>>> If they can make some of the talking toys I see for children, they
>> can
>>> certainly produce an insulin pump.
>>> Why are we always fighting for this stuff? It gets tiring.
>>> Bridgit P
>>> -----Original Message-----
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>> rg>
>>> [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of tom
>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 11:32 AM
>>> To:
> diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org<mailto:diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org<mailto:diabetes-tal
>> k at nfbnet.org%3Cmailto:diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>>
>>> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Talking Insulin pump is it out yet?
>>> Talking insulin pump..............again another miracle on the
>>> threashhold.
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Mike Freeman
> <k7uij at panix.com<mailto:k7uij at panix.com<mailto:k7uij at panix.com%3Cmailto:k7ui
>> j at panix.com>>>
>>> To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind
> <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org<mailto:diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org<mailto:diabetes-ta
>> lk at nfbnet.org%3Cmailto:diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>>>
>>> Sent: Tue, Mar 1, 2011 11:30 am
>>> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Talking Insulin pump is it out yet?
>>> Bonna:
>>> The answers are NO and NO. Manufacturers are notoriously
>>> overly-optimistic re
>>> release dates.
>>> Mike Freeman
>>> sent from my iPhone
>>> On Mar 1, 2011, at 8:17, Bonna Williamson
> <bwilliamson at redeemer.net<mailto:bwilliamson at redeemer.net<mailto:bwilliamson
>> @redeemer.net%3Cmailto:bwilliamson at redeemer.net>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Last year I received a phone call from Prada gee regarding their new
>>>> talking
>>> insulin pump that is supposed to be on the market the first quarter
>> of
>>> this
>>> year. Is it available yet? If not, do they have a release date to
>> the
>>> blind
>>> diabetic?
>>>> Thanks for any input. It is greatly appreciated.
>>>> Bonna Williamson
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