Insulin pump facts

Whenever a new patient wants to go on an insulin pump there always told to go and speak to someone who is already on one and have had it a while. The first few things I say are crucial not because I want to put them off but because they need to be prepared for all those awkward embarrassing moments. So this is what I tell them for the first few weeks at least and probably for the rest of there lives you will do all of these.

1. Watch for door handles they are lethal there great for grabbing you at every oppotunity
2. If your pump is attached to your trousers when you go to the toilet never just drop your trousers it will do the lethat and painful bungee cord affect (and it hurts)
3. Never put your ear phones and pump in the same pocket unless you want spaghetti junction
4. Night times are always good fun mine loves getting ravelled up sometimes it even ties me up, it likes to dig into every bone possible just to let you know there still there
4. Awkward timing you can always predict it going off in the quietest of moments like meetings or in a queue ect but just don't giggle when it vibrates specially if  it's in the same place of mine ssh!!
5. They are very demanding drama queens the battery will always need changing in the middle of the night, your reservoir will never need changing the same time your cannula is due and if you end up ripping it out in the middle of the night (like me) then there's nothing worse then having to puncture another needle into you specially at 3am
6. Bedtime antics (wink,wink) you can find that one out for yourself.......