When else besides the Friday heading into a holiday weekend would my pump decide to crap out? Just randomly gave me a cartridge error saying “this cartridge can’t be used”, tried to replace the cartridge and the moment I hit “load” it just gives the error again. Called Tandem technical support, they’re sending me a new one and hope that it will be here tomorrow morning, fingers crossed, not excited by the potential of a surprise pump break until Tuesday lol.
I am unfortunately unprepared for this, (with my excuses being pandemic and I just moved cross-country about a month ago), and the only pen of backup long-acting I could find is not only several months expired but has also been at room temp for quite some time. Have new insurance and, moved, so could only book a couple months out to see my new doctors. Have an appointment with a same-day clinic in a couple hours though to hopefully sort this out. Regular small Humalog “basal” doses in the meantime, closely monitoring the situation, and extremely exasperated with this turn of events
The last time I had a pump die was also, without exaggeration, the week of orientation when I first started college, maybe 2 days after I moved into the dorm. I know there’s never really “good” timing for a pump to crap out unexpectedly but my luck is incredible in this department lol.
Thank you! I considered this might be true (and I know it is true of fast-acting) but I was a little nervous to try it with long-acting. If I can’t get new stuff tonight I’ll give my old stuff a go.
(There’s a classic and unfortunate family story of when I was taken out fishing with my dad at like age 4 and my 25/75 was left in a bag in the sun for like 2 hours, long-acting portion broke down and it was effectively all fast-acting, small Laura did not do well, glucagon was had. Perhaps feeds into my nervousness lol. I think we’ve technologically advanced past there though)
That sucks. I hate it when stuff like that happens! You sound super knowledgeable and solid in the problem solving department, though!! I hope it gets worked out quickly!
50% of my Lantus is expired. At the start of this year all of it was. We (my wife and I) carry around a Lantus pen all the time, just in case, so that’s been at “room” temperature throughout Oregon’s 100F+ summer highs. Despite abusing my Lantus I’ve never had a problem with it that I don’t have with the fresh stuff.
@glitzabetes: Bad luck with the timing, I wish you good luck with the express delivery; at least you are in the Bay Area, where it’s pretty good.
@glitzabetes : we are in the Bay Area, in Berkeley, and we have spare Lantus pens (although probably expired). If you can drive by (I dont’ drive yet) I can give you some of mine.
Just randomly gave me a cartridge error saying “this cartridge can’t be used”, tried to replace the cartridge and the moment I hit “load” it just gives the error again. Called Tandem technical support, they’re sending me a new one and hope that it will be here tomorrow morning, fingers crossed, not excited by the potential of a surprise pump break until Tuesday lol.
