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Are there any activities people cannot do while using an insulin pump?
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Are there any activities people cannot do while using an insulin pump?

Here Dr Qureshi, Consultant Endocrinologist, discusses the types of misconceptions experienced when individuals begin insulin pump therapy and the need for commitment when choosing insulin pump therapy.

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Taking into account individual needs, are there any things that people can't do with an insulin pump? So there is a misconception that the pump therapy is always autonomous. So as long as you have access to pump therapy, you would just take over and you won't need to do anything. Most of the pumps actually make your control or your involvement, I think I must say, patient engagement really intense which means you have to do even more than what you would otherwise do because you're constantly have a machine attached to you who's giving you an insulin fusion and you have to react to situations based on the data you're going to get from your cgm device or your blood sugar and you have to act on them and the device is as good as the person who's using it So the devices are not designed to work on their own, although the new models, they're moving towards becoming autonomous, but most of the patients who are in pump therapy in the UK, they involves a lot of patient engagement and they need to be involved. So pump therapy is as good as the person using it and based on its own skill set. So when we meet patients, we try to make that very clear to patients that their engagement with diabetes control would become even more intense. And it's very important to set those expectations correctly at the start, because there is a conception, I think, in the community that as long as you have access to pump therapy, and it will be less work for you. It's actually more work.

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