Information and opinions on health from JennyO2216 at HealthCentral.com. HealthCentral.com is one of the top health destinations on the Web, with more than 35 condition-specific, wellness and general health Web properties. http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/945335/index http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/945335/rss self application/xml en-us 15 120 19 http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/945335/index http://www.healthcentral.com/diabeteens/c/945335/137289/long-time Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:08:30 -0400 JennyO2216 Well it has been a long time since i've posted. I have now had diabetes for two years and one month. I've had the insulin pump for almost a year now. I really like it, for me it's a lot easier. With the pump a lot of bad things happen. i've had about three bent infusion sets so with that i got really high. With one of those bent sets i fainted. It was on new years eve. and i use to change the sets like at eight o clock and i didn't check at... http://www.healthcentral.com/diabeteens/c/945335/137289/long-time http://www.healthcentral.com/diabeteens/c/945335/113648/pump Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:48:30 -0400 JennyO2216 Hey everyone guess what. I just got my pump on, on Monday. It was really the thing you get nervouss. The class was seven hours and a half. There were only three families including mine . well in the class we learned how to use it how to change things. I thought that we would just learn and start to use the pump another day. No before we left for lunch they told us that we would put the set on and start to use the pump. Then we had to go... http://www.healthcentral.com/diabeteens/c/945335/113648/pump http://www.healthcentral.com/diabeteens/c/945335/110907/pump Tue, 04 May 2010 20:37:08 -0400 JennyO2216 Hey everybody!  Well yesterday i went to a jdrf support meeting and my sister stayed home to wait for the pump. So it did come. It's also blue and it is the medtronic paradigm revel. It's the newest pump of medtronic. The thing is that i don't when my pump classes are on. My nurse went on vacation she picked the best days to go on vacation.  I just want to be able to use it! Oh and the infusion set i'm going to use are the quick set.... http://www.healthcentral.com/diabeteens/c/945335/110907/pump http://www.healthcentral.com/diabeteens/c/945335/109203/doctor Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:48:20 -0400 JennyO2216 Yesterday i went to the Childrens Hospital LA i go there every three months.  He asked like always if we had any questions. So i said yes and then i told him that i've beens wanting a pump for a while.  I thought that he was going to try to stall and be like " why you don't need it, it's not that important."  But he just said yeah you can have the pump you deserve it. I was so surprised that he said it like that.  Ok so my... http://www.healthcentral.com/diabeteens/c/945335/109203/doctor http://www.healthcentral.com/diabeteens/c/945335/105606/year Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:14:51 -0500 JennyO2216 Hey everyone it's Jenny again!  So it's almost been a year with diabetes. I'm kind of excited. I know it sounds weird but i am excited.  Ok you could call me crazy i call my self crazy too! Ok all of you know that i've been wanting a insulin pump since i was diagnosed. So i've been going to these jdrf meetings where all the kids there have diabetes. They also know that i want a pump and told me that i should ask my doctor about... http://www.healthcentral.com/diabeteens/c/945335/105606/year http://www.healthcentral.com/diabeteens/c/945335/99094/pick Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:43:49 -0500 JennyO2216 Hey you guys its jenny again. Well remember when i first came on diabeteens i asked questions about insulin pumps! I'm between these two pumps( medtronic minimed paradigm and animas one touch ping)! So i was wondering if you guys could tell me which pump you think is a better choice! http://www.healthcentral.com/diabeteens/c/945335/99094/pick http://www.healthcentral.com/diabeteens/c/945335/96527/thanksgiving Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:56:05 -0500 JennyO2216 Today we just got back from a party we went. We had to sleep over at a family members house. My bg was all over the place! Plus i wasn't hungry the whole time i was there. Everybody kept thinking my mom was the one who had diabetes not me. The thing was they had chocolate cake!  Everybody was saying it was so good i wanted to scream! My bg was fine at home before we left then it was high (probably from the pumpkin pie) then it was high... http://www.healthcentral.com/diabeteens/c/945335/96527/thanksgiving http://www.healthcentral.com/diabeteens/c/945335/94879/holidays Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:28:04 -0500 JennyO2216 Hey you guys its jenny! i now have 7 months going on 8 with diabetes. My favorite time of year is coming. One of the reasons i like this time of year is because of the food! 7 months ago i never had to count carbs worry about my bg and take a shot. My family during the holidays makes a lot of food and now my mom is probably freaking out about (if i probably cheat on my diet!) what to make! I've found a lot of low-carb recipes... http://www.healthcentral.com/diabeteens/c/945335/94879/holidays http://www.healthcentral.com/diabeteens/c/945335/91277/flu Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:12:10 -0400 JennyO2216 Hey guys ! Just wanted to say hi.  Also wanted to say that I'm not sick anymore! When i was sick i had a fever, then i had a cough, after that i then had a runny nose! i didn't go to the docters to have a swine flu test. the bad thing is that my older sister is sick. my mom said that she thinks that she might be sick. well good thing you guys don't need to worry about getting sick. HOPE i don't get sick again because i've already... http://www.healthcentral.com/diabeteens/c/945335/91277/flu http://www.healthcentral.com/diabeteens/c/945335/88327/hey Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:29:26 -0400 JennyO2216 Hey it's Jenny again just wanted to say hi. Hope that everybody that reads this is feeling really well. So I was wondering that if anybody out there is using an insulin pump if they could tell me. I've been thinking a lot about an insulin pump. I just want to know how it feels and if you guys like it. Oh yeah if you could tell me which pump you use. Just coment if you... http://www.healthcentral.com/diabeteens/c/945335/88327/hey