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The outlook is not good.
In 1993, on the back of a piece of paper I drew what I thought a pump should look like: a motor, a casing and a pen cartridge, some tubing and the cannula. In 2002, I got my first pump and it looked like that, albeit with a 3ml cartridge instead of a 1.5ml one (which is much, much, much better). The beauty of using a pen cartridge is that if the pump breaks, I whip the cartridge out and put it into a pen. I have one set of orders out for spares and day to day living. Simples!
But the company I bought the pump from sold to Roche and after 12 years, they are dropping the product. I have tried different pumps but nothing is as nice as the Dtron or as convenient. Especially when it comes to travel and ordering supplies from the GP.
There is a new pump manufacturer out there, the http://www.snappump.com which is built round the pen cartridge. Not nearly as pretty as mine, but I can put up with ugly for the sake of not having to draw up a cartridge once a week. I wish they would talk about how the basals are delivered – that is the other nice thing about the Dtron – every 20 minutes I get a tiny amount of insulin…
Posted: January 7th, 2014 under 42, Diabetes.