[prydey]

My youngest started on pens as they don't like to put you straight on to a pump, and it takes time to organise a pump with insurance so for the first few months she had Lantis at night, for the Basal (long acting, 24 hours) and novorapid or something for the Bolus.

Pens are pretty easy to use and a lot better than back when you had to draw up your own insulin into a syringe and inject yourself.

Pumps just use a single type of short acting insulin (novorapid) and it just trickle feeds constantly in the background at the set amount, and then pumps more in when you tell it, each time you eat.

Its good that there are different methods and everyone doesn't have to conform to a fixed regime.