Comment by MossDog on September 2, 2011 at 3:26pm

Sounds to me like this endo is TOTALLY off base. The only reason it should make any difference to your endo is what reports they get when the pump is downloaded. Otherwise for him it should make no difference. The trainer of the pump does get paid by the pump companies but I can't imagine an endo is doing their own pump starts. His behavior makes me VERY suspicious of his motives.

Comment by Theresa on September 2, 2011 at 7:00pm

My son is 13 and he likes his Animus Ping. His doctor did not try to sway us one way or another. They told and showed us all 3 pumps that they are trained to support and the decision was ours as to which way we went. Good luck!

Comment by SuFu, Ph.D. on September 2, 2011 at 7:27pm

One of the reasons is familiarity with the system. While it shouldn't make a difference if the endo is more comfortable with a system then they will push that one hard. I am the only patient at a VERY large endocrinology group practice that uses the PING. The majority of the doctors, even though I made informed decisions, have a PhD in biomedical science and am a medical student, were still uncomfortable with me getting the PING because of their lack of experience with it. Either way I went with the PING and am very happy with it (with the exception of a major error a month ago). I wouldn't take it completely as that he is only for MiniMed because there is something in it for him, but it may be that he understands that pump and those are the only pumps that he has CDE's for. My CDE had never even seen a PING before I brought mine in. I had to read the direction booklet on how to work it. So they were less than helpful when it comes to troubleshooting and with a 2 yo on the pump they really want to know how to work it. Could you be right that he's in it for other reasons, absolutely, but don't jump to conclusions if you've always had good experiences with him previously.

Comment by luvmyelyssa on September 2, 2011 at 9:32pm

Seems the whole town knows that he only uses MM. I'm hearing it from everyone. He just said so many crazy things. One of his biggest reasons was that he could crunch her numbers better with the information he could download from the MM. I told him that if he was a good dr. then he should be able to help get her better numbers with which ever pump we go with or which ever method of insulin we are using. Guess we aren't getting a Xmas card from his office this year. LOL....I found out that the CDE for the Endo. dr. was a representative for Animas until a couple years ago when she started working for his office. I guess that's why she didn't call me back to give me her opinion. Can't change endos. right now so I have to continue the fight for the Animas. I think its so crazy he wont let it be my choice.

Comment by Kelly WPA on September 6, 2011 at 1:12pm

If uploading software is his main reason, you can use something called Diasend to upload the pump info for him to look at. Not sure that will really help though because he will then probably come up with another reason. You can call Animas support for technical pump questions. Unfortunately, some doctors are like that and until you can change doctors, you will be stuck with MDI or a MM pump.

Comment by luvmyelyssa on September 20, 2011 at 8:43am

Ok so it took many long talks with the Endo. Dr. but he finally approved the Animas Ping for us. I picked it up Friday and we have training Monday. Yippee

Comment by Kelly WPA on September 20, 2011 at 8:54am

I am glad that you were able to get him to see the light! Good luck with the training. I am sure you will do fine!

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