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Insulin pumps - "Pumping Insulin Like A Champion!"

Posted on March 9, 2011 by John Wilkinson 1 Comment

The main reason for this site is to help type 1 diabetics that are
having difficulty in controlling their blood sugar levels and having
good A1C readings through my book "Pumping Insulin Like a Champion".
Prior to going on the insulin pump, I explored with my physicians
diabetes treatment regimens involving pills, shots, multiple shots per
day, and multiple kinds of insulin in multiple shots per day. None of
them brought any real stability in my blood sugar levels. Then I worked
with my doctor and went through the process of learning about insulin
pump and deciding if I should give them a go. My doctor helped me set
up my initial pump settings based on my insulin shot therapy. Of course
I saw my doctor about every 3 months and took my blood sugar readings
and we made some small adjustments together. The pump manufacturer also
provided some helpful information that assisted me in making the
initial change over to the insulin pump. I started feeling better soon
after. I also found that insulin pump therapy was a much better simpler
fit to me than insulin shot therapy.

I do live an active lifestyle. I exercise aggressively by doing Tae-Bo
advanced kickboxing, weight training with a Bow-Flex machine, climb
hills, jog, as well as doing and teaching high impact aerobics. I have
had a demanding jobs that required travel, long hours, some shift work,
and a variety of challenging projects over my career. I also enjoy
doing fun and recreational things as well like regular dates out with
my wife and going to a variety of restaurants, playing musical
instruments, working with flight simulators, and many other things as
well. All the treatment methods I have used prior to the insulin pump
had forced me to make numerous compromises with my life style and
health. The insulin pump removed those constraints and gave me back an
open door to living!

But then I had a shocking realization. Even though insulin pumps are
very versatile; neither doctors, their staff, or the insulin pump
companies are set up or equipped to help an insulin pumper to make the
continued adjustments and life adaptations that are needed day by day.
There is much more that you need to learn to get the big health
benefit.

Thankfully, I have a scientific background due to my training and my 40
years working for and with NASA. Over the last 27 years I have used
this experience to find solutions to not only adapting to living with
an insulin pump, but also how to take the insulin pumping way beyond
basic therapy and to the next level. These solutions that I sought out
had to be simple and practical, otherwise I would not keep employing
them.

As my doctors began to see improvements in my A1C readings and my
health, they began to question me about what I was doing and I shared
some of the improvements with them. Both my primary physician (an
internal medicine specialist), and my diabetes/insulin pump specialist
strongly suggested that I write a book that would make this information
available to help a lot of other diabetics.

I am motivated to help other diabetics to lead healthier and more
satisfying lives. In the past I have helped a few individual adults and
children but that only helps a few. I have shared a few techniques with
insulin pump user groups, but that also helps only a few people. But
sharing the ideas fully in book form could help so many more.

I have compiled all these practical and easy to use solutions in this
book. It took months to write and is over 100 pages of helps organized
in quick lookup sections. You can just flip to the section on whatever
you need help with. It would have been great if I could just have
bought this book over 25 years ago, but the information was not
available. OK, so what kind of help could you get from this book?

These are the basic questions:
* Is an insulin pump for me? Do I really need one?
* What is an insulin pump? What do they do? How would one help me?
* Insulin pumps are not cheap ... why would insurance companies want to
cover most of the cost? How could it be cheaper in the long run?
* What are the major insulin pump companies and what are their leading
insulin pump models and how do they compare?
- Medtronic Mini-Med Paradigm 522 Pump review
- Medtronic Mini-Med Real-time Revel Pump review
- Animas Ping Pump review
* What features of insulin pumps are important to me and how do I
decide on one?
* What kind of doctor would help me most with insulin pump therapy?
What should I look for when I visit one of these doctors?
* How do I adapt my life to living with an insulin pump? How do I
sleep, or travel, or exercise, or go to a restaurant, or deal with sick
days? What about intimacy?
* What about children needing an insulin pump? What pumps are best for
children? Do children need to be a certain age to use an insulin pump?

These are the `next step questions' that release the big benefits of
living with an insulin pump:
* There is a super important feature of insulin pumps that has saved my
life once, and helped numerous other times. I would not accept any
insulin pump that did not have this feature, and I will always make use
of this feature. What is this life saving feature? How do I know it is
one an insulin pump that I am considering? How do I use it?
* How do I tune an insulin pump to give me good blood sugar control? By
the way, this is not hard to do. How do I know when an adjustment is
needed? How do I decide for sure what needs to be changed? How do I
make the changes safely so I am not at risk?
* What kind of records do I need to keep for tuning my pump and keep it
tuned? What can I do with those readings so my doctor can readily
understand them and can make suggestions to me on my checkup visits?
* How do I keep my fingers from getting sore from taking so many blood
sugar readings?
* How do I keep my infusion sites healthy and not sore and not building
up scar tissue?
* Why is exercise so important?
* When I was on shots, I had to eat as many carbohydrates as I was
exercising off. How can I loose weight and stay trim if I have to eat
those same carbohydrates back? This was a big frustration to me that I
only found answers to in the last few months.
* What about those between meal snacks that I had to eat when I was on
shots? Do I still have to eat all of those? Is it easier to keep good
control if I eat those in between meal snacks or is it easier to avoid
them when on an insulin pump?

* How can I use my pump to help me lose weight and keep it off? This is
a powerful benefit of the pump that is not very practical with shots.

(Submit) Click here to get book!

Additional helps: The forms that I developed to keep track of blood
sugar readings and tuning a pump are available for free download on the
`Free forms from the book' menu tab. If you have Microsoft Office
Powerpoint and Excel, or if you have the free equivalents from Sun's
Open Office you can download and directly edit the very same forms that
I am using. If you do not have these applications, you can still
download PDF equivalents of these documents that you can just mark up
with pen or pencil to personalize them for your need before copying
them to get the same benefit.
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therapy, insulin pump weight loss, Pumping Insulin Like a Champion

Insulin pumps - Great weight loss tool

Posted on March 8, 2011 by John Wilkinson Leave a comment

With shots you are locked into a diet with a certain amount of
carbohydrates planned into every meal. If you eat less than that your
blood sugar drops low because you had more insulin than it took to
cover your meal. With shots you also need to eat in between meal snack
to keep your blood sugar from dropping low between meals. Why is that?

Good question! It is because with shots, you need to take a
time-released insulin and the time release curves of the insulin are
not precise enough to match a standard 3 meal a day diet. It also draws
the blood sugar down in between meals as well.

But the insulin pump brings with it a powerful tool that helps you
adapt to the food you actually consume at the time you actually eat it.
Of course this is a double edge sword. You could use it to eat a lot of
unhealthy or unnecessary foods and leave you feeling miserable now and
be stuck with the added weight later. In my book "Pumping Insulin Like
A Champion" I show you how to harness this built in power in your
insulin pump to manage your weight no matter whether you need to loose
weight, gain weight, or hold your weight.

There is a healthy weight for your body. And there is a healthy BMI or
body-mass-index for your body as well. You will feel the best when you
are in a healthy weight range and a healthy BMI range. So how do you
know what is healthy for you? Visit your doctor and talk this over with
them. They can tell you if you are out of balance, and help you set
healthy target that work best for you.

Non-diabetics can exercise more, or eat more or eat less and their
pancreas will adapt to all the related changes in insulin demands. Yeah
... that would be nice, but I am a diabetic!

Exactly! But enter the insulin pump into your corner before you have
that next fight between your fork and your weight. The tool on the
insulin pump that helps push the battle into your favor is the bolus
insulin amount for a meal. You can set the number of carbohydrates of
the meal to match the food you are consuming. So if you choose to eat a
lite bread with that sandwich, and get some water or tea instead of
that diet drink, and get a piece of fruit instead of that piece of pie,
you can set the new number of carbohydrates and you WILL lose weight
over time.

My book has a lot to say about this to help you. But also there are
discussions about how to use exercise to help loose weight and improve
your BMI. The book also covers how to fine-tune your pump so you are
not having to regularly consume extra calories just to bring up your
blood sugar.

(Submit) Click here to get book!
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weight loss, Pumping Insulin Like a Champion

Adapting to an Insulin Pump - Not so scary after all ...

Posted on February 22, 2011 by John Wilkinson 1 Comment

My book "Pumping Insulin Like a Champion" covers all the little secrets
that I use to adapt my pump to my life and my life to the pump. I want
to give you an idea of what is involved. First of all, an insulin pump
is prescribed by your doctor. You can't buy one on Ebay or Craig's
List. If your doctor has other diabetics that are on insulin pumps (and
I sure hope they do otherwise you should probably be looking for a
different doctor), they will have a relationship with one or more
insulin pump companies.

Your physician will determine what your initial insulin pump setting
are based partly on your insulin shot therapy and the knowledge of how
to estimate starting settings for your insulin pump. Over time, your
doctor will help tweak your pump settings to give you better blood
sugar control. However you will find that unless you are a very stable
diabetic and your blood sugar readings just do not jump around much,
more help will be needed than that to fit better to your life needs.
This takes more time and effort than can be done with a visit to your
physician every 3 months. This process of fine-tuning of your insulin
pump settings is covered in detail in my book. Fine-tuning your pump
though is a step well beyond just adapting to the pump.

I found simple solutions that make adapting to the pump easy also in
the following areas. All are covered in detail in my e-book.
- eating out at restaurants with a pump
- sleeping with a pump
- exercising with a pump
- traveling with a pump
- intimacy while on a pump
- bathing with a pump
- sick days with a pump
- importance of an understanding partner

Some of these life changes can seem bigger initially than they need to
be once you see simple life adaptations to each one. I have found that
in the end, none of these topics will be hard to overcome once you have
a solution in mind.
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Insulin Like a Champion

Insulin Pumps - Need one? Which one?

Posted on February 22, 2011 by John Wilkinson 1 Comment

How did I know that I needed a pump? How did I decide that I was
willing to make the changes necessary to go on a pump? Would I make the
same decision now? If insulin pumps are new to you, then you are
probably asking yourself and your doctor all of these questions. While
I do answer them in detail in my book "Pumping Insulin Like a
Champion", I would like to give you a summary of them here as well.
Once you decide you do need an insulin pump, then your next question is
going to be, which one?

The first question was `How did I know that I needed a pump?'. That is
a good place to start. I had been trying diligently to make insulin
shots work. I had seen some older diabetics come into my doctors office
with some obvious diabetes related physical problems, and it make me
think what I would need to do to give myself the best chance of staying
healthy and either eliminating some of these serious side effects, of
postponing them for a very long time. I knew that since I had a lot of
high and a lot of low blood sugar readings that changes in my therapy
were needed. But there were other reasons too. Travel was one. With my
job, I needed to take business trips. With shots, these trips were a
big problem to my insulin shot therapy. Between flight times messing up
meal times, different food messing up preplanned insulin levels,
different timezones messing everything up, long meetings making meal
times unpredictable all left me feeling like I could not adapt well to
travel which limited my job performance. Handling having to work
different shifts from time to time was tough. Another area was
exercise. I like to live an active lifestyle. I like to walk, and run,
and climb hills, and do aggressive high-energy aerobics such as Tae-Bo
kickboxing, and do some weight training on a Bow-Flex, and go sailing
on a Hobie-Catamaran. All those actions burn energy. They have a big
effect on insulin needs. Doing them on insulin shots was not
impossible, but I did have to eat a lot of extra food to balance every
exercise type I took on. Eating like that defeated a lot of what I was
trying to accomplish with exercise. There were many other areas that
cried out for a better solution than shots.

The next question is `How did I decide that I was willing to make the
changes necessary to go on a pump?'. I have 2 answers. First is that
when I saw what the limitations to my lifestyle was with shots, and how
poor my blood sugar control was, and saw the complications that other
patients were experiencing who were not able to maintain good blood
sugar control, I was open to a change. Second, I met someone just going
on a pump who is a real pumper hero named Roberta Weaver in Orlando
Florida. She went on to form the Orlando Florida Insulin Pump Group at
Orange Memorial Hospital. Roberta gave me more hope and courage. If
Roberta could do it, so could I!

For the next question, `Would I make the same decision now?'. My answer
is ABSOLUTELY YES. For me, there is no other game in town.

As for the last question `Which one?', there are more than one insulin
pump that meet my requirements today. There are several that do not.
Insulin pumps have changed in many important ways in the 27 years I
have been a pumper. The current crop of insulin pumps come in a bunch
of cool colors, and have many common features, yet they also have
distinctions that are important. My book covers what insulin pumps do,
all the major features that will be important to you, special features
that add value that are offered by particular insulin pump models, what
pump I have now, and which pump I am likely to upgrade to once my
warranty runs out.
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Insulin Pumps - Easy setup and forget?

Posted on February 22, 2011 by John Wilkinson 1 Comment

Most people using insulin pumps today are coming from insulin shots.
They have found shots to not be effective in keeping them healthy. That
was certainly true for me as well. I worked with my doctor and
collected a large number of blood sugar readings and tried for years to
get shots to stabilize my blood sugars. Finally it became obvious to me
and my doctor that I needed something beyond shots to stay healthy.

So I went on the pump. My doctor used information from my shot therapy
to setup my insulin pump initially. This is a huge help and one that I
was thankful for. From time to time, my doctors suggested small changes
to that initial therapy. I am a brittle type 1 diabetic whose insulin
needs changed and my activities screamed for a lot more freedom. Was I
stuck with these initial pump settings and small tweaks from my doctor
every 3 months? Was that the best I could get from a pump? I was still
getting lots of highs and lots of lows. My fingers were getting some
from all the blood sugar checks. Some of my infusion sites were getting
sore. My A1C readings were still high. So for me and I expect very many
young diabetics the answer has to be ... NO THE PUMP HAS TO DO A LOT
MORE FOR ME THAN IT IS DOING NOW. The insulin pump is NOT a set and
forget device when the patient is young and active and probably a bit
brittle as well. It turns out that insulin pumps are actually very
flexible devices that can adjust very well to our lifestyles,
activities and changes in our body's needs.

Thankfully over the past 27 years, I have discovered that fine tuning
an insulin pump and getting it to adapt to my body's needs and my
active lifestyle is a straight forward process that can be easily and
safely applied once you know the techniques. Parts of the process can
be repeated whenever you discover that something has come out of
balance and you begin to see more high or low blood sugar readings.

It does not need to take you 27 years like it took me. This site was
created to help other insulin pump users, or those considering an
insulin pump to lead healthy and happier lives with a lot less stress.
How to accomplish this is presented in my book "Pumping Insulin Like A
Champion" which is available on this site.
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John the Insulin Pumper
Hi, John here. I have been a diabetic for over 40 years, and a Type
1 insulin dependent diabetic for over 38 years, and on an insulin
pump for 27 years. Over that time I have learned many practical
methods to adapting to living with a pump. I have also learned how
to go way beyond just adapting to living with a pump, but how to
secure much of the potential health benefits that an insulin pump
can bring without holding you back at all from a full active life.
I do walking, jogging, Tae-bo kickboxing, climbing hills, Bowflex
weight training, and Hobie Cat Catamaran sailing.
One of my passions is to help other diabetics live a full and
healthy life.
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