Long Term Type 1 - Paradigm Insulin Pump Experience

The Paradigm pumps are great when they work. The good thing: they are good about replacing them when they stop working(which is about once a year in my case, I have a few friends that replace them at about the same frequency +/- a few months).

The CGM is also awesome when it works. But, it doesn't work almost as much as it does (for myself and literally everyone else that I know who has one.) It is more of an annoyance than anything else when the CGM isn't working, as long as you are sitting on the couch waiting to push buttons on it 24/7. If you actually get up and do anything where you can't drop everything that you are doing, read it, and push the right combination of buttons to stop the high glucose or lost sensor or calibration error or meter now or... alarms, or want to sleep a full night through every night, it is more than an annoyance.

I have stopped using mine and another friend has stopped using his, and a few others are considering no longer using them because of these situations. If you are driving or in a meeting or interview or class or on a crowded bus, you are out of luck: it will nag you until you want to beat it with a hammer and disrupt everything around you, and there is not a thing you can do about it without pulling it out and looking at it, which isn't always safe or practical.

A friend who is considering no longer using his just called and said that Medtronic has no plans to fix this problem. So, if you are an active person, maybe avoid CGM?