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If you have attended a wedding while wearing T1D devices, do you try to place your pump and/or sensor sites somewhere not visible?
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Yes, but. There’s always a yes–but, isn’t there? I have conveniently and comfortably worn my pump since 1996 by placing it in my pocket. The CGM? Who cares? CGM’s are so ubiquitous in today’s television ads, that the implied only question seems to be, “Well, doesn’t everybody wear them?” ¯\_( ͠❛ ﹏ ͠❛ )_/¯
I have not attended a wedding buy why in the HELL would I want to make a life saving device invisible? What is the deal with you folks. Test on the table in a restaurant. Where the pump where you normally do. I just do not get all the pump shaming from you folks.
Not so much that I’m ashamed to show off my T1 tech, it’s more the practical side of dressing up as a woman – I still want to wear nice dresses, so I don’t have a choice but to “hide” my pump under it!
I agree with Larry. My beef, and could be worse for women, is I don’t care if it shows. I care whether I can wear what I want to without it looking like I have a big lump under my clothes. Call me vain, but I take pride in keep myself trim. First, you can’t wear a dress if there is no belt or pockets. I can’t wear it in my bra (read between the lines) and I feel like it is going to slide down my leg if under the dress and how do you get it out of up on the thigh? They are made for men’s belts. Design one for women please.
That’s a big part of why I chose Omnipod.
My pump is always in my pocket and the CGM sensor is under my shirt, so they are never visible. Ergo I don’t need to conceal for special occasions.
Hid pump easily at my own wedding under my jacket. Once jacket came off, pretty hard to hide it on my belt. Easy to keep CGM hid on the arm.
Yes, but in places I can get to for boluses or to check numbers. I usually have to cut holes in the dress where I can put in a hand. It is a lot of trouble.
When I started wearing a sensor on my arm, I donated all of my sleeveless dresses and tops. Now I only wear tops and dresses with a short sleeve, long sleeve, or jacket to cover. The tape over the top is rather large and keeping it under clothes also keeps it clean.
If I feel like it I do. Change pod every 2 days so put it where I can where it hasn’t been recently, near CGM so I can keep track and knock off accidentally less.
My pump is always in my front-right pocket with a hole near the top to run the tube through.
I have never tried to hide my pump. Not sure why that bothers anyone.
When I get dressed up I typically wear a little sports belt under the dress to hold my pump. Unfortunately this means I have to go to the bathroom to enter my BG, turn off alerts, etc, but this is where the quick bolus feature of t:slim is great! For my own wedding, I had the seamstress put a little pocket for my pump in the bodice, just to the side of my breast, so I could pull out my pump without having to go to the bathroom. No way I was missing my own wedding! May have looked a little odd if anyone saw me reaching into my dress, but it worked like a charm.
I have never cared if it shows. I would probably turn off audible alarms, just like I would turn off my cell phone. I wouldn’t want to disrupt the ceremony with noise.
If I am a member of of the wedding party I do, otherwise no. Why fret about when I’m, thankfully, not the center of attention.
No I usual put it in my front pocket if there tubing shows so be it. The only reason I would hide anything would be to look classy if that’s at all possible.
I remember when I was young. And pumps 1st became commercially available. I didn’t want one because of the tube… 30 years later and I could care less. As for cgm recent advertising has educated too many people as to what it is and I now try to keep it under my shirt sleeve. Back of arm. Unless you know me well, you would not know I am T1D
I don’t think I own any wedding-appropriate clothes that would expose my Libre.
Going to a wedding is not about me;) I just wear my sensor or infusion sites where they are. But I do have to make sure I can access my pump. I don’ wear dresses. I wear skirt and blouse and I love skirts with pockets:) as I prefer not to wear my pump on my waistband.
Pump usually ends up in my bra, my pump site is where it is.
Me too!
I wear my pump and CGM where they’re easily accessible. The last two weddings I attended were in the summer during very hot, humid weather. I chose clothing that was appropriate for the occasion and comfortable. If my CGM was visible on my arm when I wore short sleeves, no big deal.
My priority concern is about placing it where it is (1) secure and (2) easily accessible. I harbor no shame or blame, or even vanity, about wearing diabetes devices. They are what they are – necessary tools. Fortunately family, friends and professional colleagues are supportive, kind, understanding and harbor no ill will or judgement towards me for wearing diabetes devices.
When I remarried in 2007, I wore my pump clipped to the outside of my dress with a slit in the side seam for the tubing. Most guests knew I have diabetes. However, nobody knew, suspected, or cared anything about pump placement except me and the diabetes sister friends who attended. For the rest of the uninitiated wedding guests, pump awareness never, ever crossed their thought process mindset.
I was at two weddings in April, I always wear my pump on my belt in a case. If I take my coat off, my CGM transmitter can be seen through my shirt. It is part of who I am. No big deal.
My infusion sets are pretty much hidden by clothing, and depending on the dress – since we are talking a dress-up event here – I look to see if wearing my pump “between the girls” – does it look like I have a third member of that “girl tribe?” I also like men’s lightweight boxer shorts for under the dress. They are cool cloth, and have a great waistband. For my sensor, since my upper arms is my favorite place, I use hand-painted adhesive patches. I have “ink” already so the sensor patch just blends in. At one wedding, the owner of the venue said (in true southern style “bless yer heart” when she managed to still see the sensor. She thought I was on Nulasta (spelling?) that chemo-therapy drug. I took it as a kind thing to say.
I do that no matter where I am.
At my brother-in-law’s wedding, I wore my pump clipped to my dress and clearly visible. I got to have a nice conversation with one of the caterers about our pumps. At my own wedding, I clipped the pump onto the back of the dress so it wasn’t in the way but I could still reach it easily – and you can see it in any picture of me from the side. I’m thrilled to have this technology and happy to start up a conversation with someone, even at a formal event like a wedding!
i answered yes. My pump and CGM are seldom visible anyway. I used to enjoy doing the “insulin pump demo” to interested people, but now my life situation does not give me the freedom of time to sit and chat with people about the pump (except if I’m in the ER with my husband or my elderly relative and have no critical things to take care of). Nurses are very interested in the pump when they see it and ask intelligent questions! 🙂