Question for pump users

[tomseeley]

  I do not use a pump, but I may have to, soon.  For me, a big issue is
how to get accustomed to having something hanging off my gut 24/7!  
I'd like to hear from those who use a particular style of pump my new
endocrinologist just told me about.  I'm sorry I don't know the name
or the mfg.

It apparently sticks to you somehow and injects insulin directly into
you without any plumbing!

I have some specific questions:

1.  I am a restless, light sleeper.  I toss and turn regularly at
night.  I get up at least 2-3 times to go to the bathroom.  It is not
uncommon for a visit to the bathroom to awaken me enough that my
brain clicks on, and I then toss and turn for as much as 2 hours
before going back to sleep!  Diabetes or not, that's been a royal
PITA for me all my life!

I almost always sleep on one side or the other, never on my stomach,
and almost all the time if I'm flat on my back, I'm awake!  So where
do I stick this thing, so that in one position or another I'm not
lying on it!  Because I'm almost positive that if I can feel it under
me I won't be asleep, and I have enough trouble with that nearly
every night as it is!

2.  I was told that the particular pump my endo is talking about comes
pre-loaded with insulin.  Does that mean that when it runs out I get
a completely new gizmo that comes pre-loaded again?

[gpeech]

I began to use a pump last year and although it doesn't stick to my body as you describe, it is the typical small (size of a pager) external infusion pump with a small tube leading to the infusion site.  I use my abdominal area for the infusion site.   I must tell you that it took me only a few weeks to get so adjusted that I forgot the pump was there.   Sleeping was the easiest adjustment of all.   I clip my pump to my bedclothes at the neck, collar, waist or whatever and it stays intact all night.   I was told by another pump user to try just laying the pump beside me in bed.   Although my tube is only 23 inches long, that method worked just fine as well.   I, too, get up during the night and soon learned to just check the security of the pump before I got out of bed.  
The pump stays on during my tossing and turning, rising and movement, even making love.  
On the rare occasions when the pump clip became loose and fell, it was no big deal.  The whole thing stayed attached at the infusion site by the tape which holds the cannula in place, and did not hurt or pull anything loose.
I wish I had obtained a pump years ago.   It has made my life amazingly simpler, and my health much stabler.    If you are able to try it, give yourself a month or so, and I suspect that you will be very surprised if you don't learn to love your newfound freedom.