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      I am an RN. Been going to same doctor for about ten years. Took me six years to train him. I am very well read when it comes to my LADA. He trusts my judgement and gives me excellent parameters to make decisions. Recently had a bad case of Covid. Insulin needs changed dramatically. Getting back to normal but he made sure I had scripts to cover my ups and downs with insulin needs.
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      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
      Mine acknowledges the struggles and challenges that go along with managing T1D in my daily life. She gives suggestions as to what may or may not help and has often asked me I how I handle situations so she can give suggestions to other T1D patient's.
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      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
      None of my endocrinologists or NPs have had T1D but I always discuss my challenges and they are incredibly helpful. What I always find astonishing is they are constantly amazed at how well I’m doing even when i don’t think I’m doing that well because most of their patients have nowhere near the A1c’s I’m able to achieve. And just hovers in the 6’s!
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      Have you developed lipohypertrophy due to repeated injections/infusions of insulin? Lipohypertrophy is a term to describe hardened lumps of body fat just under the skin that resulted from repeated insulin injections/infusion sites. If so, share how you’ve handled lipohypertrophy in the comments!
      The hard spots are fairly frequent with the pump infusion sets. Especially if I go past 3 days which I try to avoid! I don’t think I ever got one from injections. I try heat and massaging to treat them and they normally go away after a day or so. Once I had a large area that I had to treat with antibiotics.
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      Both my endocrinologist and my nurse practitioner are great. They compliment me on the way I take care of my life and health and make aure I get all the supplies I need managing all the paperwork Medicare and insurance requires. My nurse practitioner who works with me on managing the pump has her own opinion about the pump settings based on her technical knowledge which is different than what I do with my settings based on living with them. She has thru the years learned to respect what I do and is surprised with how my settings work. So we are now at peace. Both very supportive.
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      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
      Yes. However, for those of you who assert, "It takes one to know one," the same might be said of age. Geriatrics is a marvelous array of marvels.
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      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
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      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
      Yes. However, for those of you who assert, "It takes one to know one," the same might be said of age. Geriatrics is a marvelous array of marvels.
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      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
      Yes. However, for those of you who assert, "It takes one to know one," the same might be said of age. Geriatrics is a marvelous array of marvels.
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      lis be likes your comment at
      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
      None of my endocrinologists or NPs have had T1D but I always discuss my challenges and they are incredibly helpful. What I always find astonishing is they are constantly amazed at how well I’m doing even when i don’t think I’m doing that well because most of their patients have nowhere near the A1c’s I’m able to achieve. And just hovers in the 6’s!
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      Daniel Bestvater likes your comment at
      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
      My provider does not have T1. Only someone with it can truly understand the various daily challenges and worth it takes to manage this.
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      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
      My provider does not have T1. Only someone with it can truly understand the various daily challenges and worth it takes to manage this.
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      I have no clue what my T1D health care provider understands about my daily challenges and I don’t know about his daily challenges either. Not sure why I should care as long as I have access to information how to best take care of myself.
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      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
      My provider does not have T1. Only someone with it can truly understand the various daily challenges and worth it takes to manage this.
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      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
      My provider does not have T1. Only someone with it can truly understand the various daily challenges and worth it takes to manage this.
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      Have you developed lipohypertrophy due to repeated injections/infusions of insulin? Lipohypertrophy is a term to describe hardened lumps of body fat just under the skin that resulted from repeated insulin injections/infusion sites. If so, share how you’ve handled lipohypertrophy in the comments!
      Hi Connie, I still have my glass syringe and show it off occasionally. We boiled the needle and syringe every morning and sharpened the needle with a file. I was diagnosed at age 6 in 1963. Life is so different now! Then, my diet was extremely limited as was my exercise. Now, I am very active and eat pretty much as I please. I maintain an A1C in the low 6s (6.2 was my last).
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      sweetcharlie likes your comment at
      Have you developed lipohypertrophy due to repeated injections/infusions of insulin? Lipohypertrophy is a term to describe hardened lumps of body fat just under the skin that resulted from repeated insulin injections/infusion sites. If so, share how you’ve handled lipohypertrophy in the comments!
      Connie and Beth, I was diagnosed in Nov 1962, age 10. During the early years I developed lumps and indentations on my upper thighs from my injections. In fact, I was able t o spot other t1 kids in my junior high school based upon the lumps in their upper arms.. (I eventually met up with them and learned that I was correct.) By the time I reached my twenties, these indentations had more or less disappeared, but I still have remnants of the lumps. I wish I could say that the layers of tissue now deposited on my legs disguises them, but they don't. I think the changes in insulin have been responsible for this improvement: the isolation and purification of animal insulins were refined, and then the various human clones were game changers in many ways.
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      Have you developed lipohypertrophy due to repeated injections/infusions of insulin? Lipohypertrophy is a term to describe hardened lumps of body fat just under the skin that resulted from repeated insulin injections/infusion sites. If so, share how you’ve handled lipohypertrophy in the comments!
      Yes in my upper arms when I was a petite and skinny child in the 1960s with T1D. In those days we used glass syringes with stainless steel 1/2 inch long heavy gauge needles. My mother would jab me in the upper arms, it hurt like the dickens, and I developed several hard nodules. I was diagnosed at age 8 in December 1962 and after the initial two months of her jabbing me in the upper arms, I took over giving my own "shots" and started self injecting via site rotation in my thighs for several years. Eventually the lipohypertrophy in my upper arms resolved and I never injected there again until many years later as an adult on MDI using disposable syringes with very short and fine gauge needle tips. Periodically I would give my tired pin cushion thighs a rest and take a break for a few months or a couple of years and rotate injections in my abdomen or upper arms. Have been using a pump for over 20 years now and rarely use MDI unless I am taking a pump break for a short period of time. Happily, I no longer have lumpy sites.
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    For insulin pump users: What was the format of your most recent pump training?

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    24 Comments

    1. LizB

      My current pump is a Medtronic 770g, which is basically the same as the 670g I was using before. I did not do any training for the 770g.

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    2. Lawrence S.

      When I got my first Tandem insulin pump, about 7 years ago, I had a trainer come to my home and give me instructions. When I got my most recent Tandem X2 pump, it came with a booklet and a CD (I think). All is well.

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    3. Mick Martin

      Although I’d been using a Medtronic pump for the last 20 years, my diabetes team insisted that the advances made in pump technology deserved a meeting/training session with a representative from Medtronic/MiniMed.

      Apart from the Medtronic 640G pump now having an ‘Auto Mode’ … which works alongside CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitoring) … there was very little difference to what I was already doing. (I’m due to be getting the Medtronic 780G soon, so I hope I don’t have to go through the same palaver again.)

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      1. Larry Martin

        Have you heard when the 780G is out?

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    4. Larry Martin

      Individual 35+ years ago for the first one. Prerecorded videos for those after that had a different operation.

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    5. Louise Robinson

      It was in October 2020 when we were fully into COVID. Tandem and its rep did a wonderful job handling the training virtually.

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      1. Louise Robinson

        I was transitioning from an older Medtronic Minimed Paradigm pump to Tandem’s t:slim X2 with Control IQ.

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    6. Clare Fishman

      It was almost 10 years ago. I don’t think virtual training of any kind was available then.

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    7. kristina blake

      20 years ago with my very first pump, a Cozmore, it was in person in my home. When I had to switch to Animas I did the transition myself. 8 years ago (or so) for my switch to Tandem it was in person – at my home (I have pugs, all rescues, and the trainer did too. So she came to the house to meet ours and brought hers along!). Since then when I upgraded to BIQ I did it myself.

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    8. Lizzy Batch

      I’ve been a pump user for 20 yrs. Haven’t had a pump training for at least 12 yrs. Then it was ono on one training with a RN

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    9. GLORIA MILLER

      I hooked myself up to the Medtronic in the early 1990s without any training. When I switched to Omnipod in 2010 their representative came to my home to give the training but it was not needed.

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    10. William Bennett

      My very first pump–an old pager-style Medtronic–was a group training at Joslin. I think there were three of us in my “class,” over a few sessions, then one-on-one to get all the settings adjusted over a few weeks. More recently but still a long while ago now, was one-on-one when I tried the 670G, which was a big change–I was the first in my Endo’s practice to give it a shot. Had a very good in-house RN plus a Medtronic rep. And it never really worked out for me. After 6 months of frustration I went back to my old, simple pager-style Paradigm, which I’m still using. Fewer failure points, better results, and I’m pretty disillusioned with the whole closed (or semi-closed) loop thing.

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    11. Ken Raiche

      Over the years both Animas and Tandem were done in person one on one. That being said the updates on the Tandem to both Basal IQ and Control IQ were done over the Internet through audio/video followed but a quiz.

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    12. TomH

      My training ended up being on the phone, not even virtual, for about 45 minutes. The guy was new to the area for Insulet, but seemed knowledgeable. I thought we skipped over a lot I expected him to cover. Got a two additional calls over the next month, but quite frankly, I thought the online video’s did a better job of covering topics…except you can’t ask a video a question and I had a couple.

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    13. BARRY HUNSINGER

      I received training in person when I got my first pump about 20+ years ago and nothing since.

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    14. Randell Cole

      I did not have pump training

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    15. AnitaS

      I had the trainer from Tandem come to my house. I must say, however, when the time came for the first time I did it om my own, it took me about 45 minutes. LOL Not that the trainer was bad, but I just had a difficult time filling the cartridge with insulin the first few times I did it on my own. Now I do it in a different fashion than was taught to me, and it makes it so much easier for me to remember how to fill the cartridge. I take maybe 10 minutes now from start to finish (from unwrapping all of the components to putting or throwing all components away).

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    16. Janis Senungetuk

      In May, 2020 Tandem was only providing virtual training. I had lots of concerns and wanted hands on training. My CDE, also a certified Tandem trainer, offered to provide that in a clinic appointment. It made a tremendous difference to be able to get my questions answered and the have all of the pump settings adjusted by a trainer who knew me and my medical history. Watching the training videos helped, but I learn by doing, so I needed the in-person training. My previous pump, an Animas Vibe that I had for two years, was my first pump, so this is still rather new tech after 60+ years of using a syringe and vial.

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    17. Ahh Life

      Other. A half hour in a Starbuck’s with the Tandem rep. Insertion & everything out in the opening, out in public.

      Not like the old days. 1996 was two days in the hospital.

      And now, even better with do it yourself independence, it’s some time watching UTube, do the proper plumbing, and get on with your life. Ainsi va la vie. Ahhhhh! ᕙ། ¯ ~͜ʖ~ ¯ །ᕗ

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    18. M C

      As it was 5 years ago this month that I received my current pump, it was in person, individually. Thanks to many doctors’ offices/clinics still wary about in person visits, thanks to the lingering issues with the pandemic, who knows how the new pump will be introduced to me – it should be happening sometime later this month, however it is to be done.

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    19. Becky Hertz

      Other, I read the manual and did it myself. Didn’t want to wait over a month for the trainer. Apparently, I upset the staff at the diabetes care center I go to. My endo told them “a can read”. It wasn’t my first rodeo. “D

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      1. Jim Andrews

        I had mine up and running within the hour and spent 5 minutes on the phone with the trainer. 55 years T1D, 15 years pumping.

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    20. Britni

      I had a full day group training and then two follow up appointments (one with a nurse and one with a nutritionist). The 2nd appointment was about a week before the clinic closed for the pandemic in 2020. I was on the phone with the nurse as she was packing up her office to work from home.

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    21. Carol Meares

      When I received my pump, appts for training were 3 weeks out, so I just started the pump on my own. I knew mostly what to do because I had been on another pump. They wouldn’t train me after I had already started on my own. Ha, I sort of felt like I was being punished. I wish I could get an appt with a trainer now tho’ as I would like to ask questions about the algorithm. These would be questions that come later after using the pump for a while.

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