When I converted over to an insulin pump roughly four years ago, little did I know that syringes would never go away.  I have written here before some of the reasons I miss my syringes and my insulin pen.  With injections there’s no unknown.  You fill the syringe, you grab some skin and inject.  When [...]

After looking at the instructions for my Medtronic MiniMed infusion sets, I came across some things that I found quite amusing.  I hope you do too.

Warnings
"Remove the needle guard before inserting the infusion set." – Um, really?  Maybe that’s why I…. never mind. 
"The soft cannula must always be completely inserted to receive the [...]

For those readers that are newer to Blogging Diabetes, I will say that I’ve been on an insulin pump for about 4 years now.  The entire time I have been using a Medtronic MiniMed 715 pump.  In each infusion set package from Medtronic, there is a small round disk that clips on to the infusion [...]

In the past I have written about insulin pump advantages and disadvantages.  I have been on a Medtronic insulin pump for about 4 years now and wouldn’t go back to shots without some serious money being involved.  All joking aside, I mind-mapped this post while enjoying some fun and sun on vacation.  There are definitely [...]

I know I’m a little behind the news flash on this one, but I want to make sure that all my readers know about this recall.  Medtronic announced a voluntary product recall for all of the Paradigm Quick Set (mostly in U.S.) infusion sets that have a reference number of MMT-396 to MMT-399 along with [...]

In my last post, I discussed the need to code a blood glucose meter to the vial of test strips to ensure accuracy.  My question was, why did this need to be done?  Below is my e-mail to LifeScan asking this question with their response below my request.
“… My last post was in regards to [...]

This is a guest post submitted by Lorraine who is doing an excellent job managing her son’s (Caleb) type 1 diabetes.  I met Lorraine through twitter, which is an excellent medium to talk real-life diabetes.  From our first few conversations, I knew that she was doing a lot of things right for Caleb and keeping [...]

“Winner, winner, chicken dinner”.  I hope you all had a nice long and relaxing holiday weekend!  As promised, here is my vlog that answers the question, “What did I do for the first time after 4 years on an insulin pump”?
 
Thank you all for contributing and to the winner of the Amazon gift card (watch [...]

As we approach a nice long weekend here in the States, I wanted to pose a question to the Blogging Diabetes readers.  I’ve been on an insulin pump for almost 4 years now.  Just the other day, I had something happen for the first time ever on the pump. 
What happened?
Who knows, I might just [...]

About 10 years ago I started my diabetic journey taking pills to control my blood sugar.  Taking those pills only lasted a few months before my doctor determined that I was not producing enough insulin in my pancreas. I then switched to injections and went on insulin.  My doctor, who was simply a primary care [...]