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re: Insulin Pump for teen
Posted on 7/9/25 at 7:53 am to Lakeboy7
Posted on 7/9/25 at 7:53 am to Lakeboy7
I keep up with it and have read a lot about it. I’m not T1D, but my 13 year old son is (dx at 9). I am really hopeful that this or something similar will be a break through that drastically changes the daily grind of dealing with T1 for his entire life.
He handles it well and doesn’t let it slow him down, but I know it gets old for him
He handles it well and doesn’t let it slow him down, but I know it gets old for him
This post was edited on 7/9/25 at 7:57 am
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Posted on 7/30/25 at 8:49 am to WDE24
Update
We are wrapping up his third pump as they last three days at a time. Blood Sugar numbers are unbelievably more consistent. We have had two big spikes, and corrections of those take awhile to come back down but both were from mistakes we made. It is hard to trust what it tells you to dose nut we are listening more and more. When it is working as described he has never had numbers remotely close to this.
No negatives with this in any way for normal life.
Concerns we have to figure out are once sports start again is how is he going to get his blood sugar numbers consistently while on field during practice. Before he kept the dexcom receiver but that is out now with it talking to the omnnipod. Will have to figure this one out. The other is the pod is a little heavier than he expected and it feels like it pulls and wants to fly off when he is doing just basic weights and things so may need a compression sleeve or ace bandage over it once he starts back up on his pitching/throwing program and batting. We are on a little hiatus with summer ball being over and trying to learn how to mange numbers using this thing.
We are wrapping up his third pump as they last three days at a time. Blood Sugar numbers are unbelievably more consistent. We have had two big spikes, and corrections of those take awhile to come back down but both were from mistakes we made. It is hard to trust what it tells you to dose nut we are listening more and more. When it is working as described he has never had numbers remotely close to this.
No negatives with this in any way for normal life.
Concerns we have to figure out are once sports start again is how is he going to get his blood sugar numbers consistently while on field during practice. Before he kept the dexcom receiver but that is out now with it talking to the omnnipod. Will have to figure this one out. The other is the pod is a little heavier than he expected and it feels like it pulls and wants to fly off when he is doing just basic weights and things so may need a compression sleeve or ace bandage over it once he starts back up on his pitching/throwing program and batting. We are on a little hiatus with summer ball being over and trying to learn how to mange numbers using this thing.
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