Nineteen

The steady line on my CGM is very pretty. It's very, very flat.

It's just a shame it isn't 14mmol/l (250mg/dL) lower down.

My blood sugar has been sitting steadfastly at 19mmol/l (342mg/dL) for the last nine hours. Nineteen for nine hours.

The recipe for (attempted) correction has included:

• Two correction boluses - a rational 3.7 units (as per Bolus Wizard suggestion) and a rageful additional 5 units when I hadn't budged 90 minutes later.

• Another 5 units via a syringe, plunged angrily into the fleshy bit of my backside where infusion sets never go, as I don't relish sitting on my infusion set for 3 days. Since insulin never goes there, I figured I have no absorption problems.

• A new infusion set, a new reservoir and new insulin, from a brand new bottle.

• A few more correction boluses. Total units delivered since first testing at 19mmol/l = 22units. That's over two thirds of my usual total daily dose.

• Total carbs eaten since that time = 30g. That was my (small) lunch. I haven't eaten dinner, for fear of ending up higher.

• A 200% basal rate for the last 3 hours. So I'm getting double basals right now.

But I'm still 19mmol/l. 19.3mmol/l to be precise.

There has been:

• A lot of water drunk and a lot of trips to the bathroom.

• An awful lot of test strips used.

• A lot of priming and checking of my pump.

• A lot of cursing and getting angry.

• One (but only one) incident of hurling my testing kit across the room in a rage.

• Some double checking with other (two other) meters...

Yep... still at 19mmol/l.

The good thing?

No ketones.

Every cloud, and all that...

Comments

[Colleen]

Oh Caro, hang in there!

[Scott K. Johnson]

I frickin' hate those kind. You wonder what the FUCK!!! And then, eventually, just as silently as it crept up so high, it comes back down.

Just be patient and careful. I don't want to read about you at the hospital because you went nuts correcting and stuff. Ok?

[Lee]

Thant sucks! Since my diagnosis I think I have been lucky in that those highs don't stick around longer than an hour or two... Just saw on your Twitter - snowflakes in London! I am going to be arriving there soon - yay - for a brief visit. Won't you drop me a mail (if you don't think I am a stalker lol). It would be great to meet a fellow d. BTW travelling with pump through Heathrow - any glitches or tips?? Last time I did that was with pens :) L

[Caro]

Come down it eventually did. Don't worry Scott - I didn't end up in hospital! I just finished up indulging in a carb-heavy middle-of-the-night eating fest to mop up the leftover insulin when I finally came back in to range. Where all the earlier insulin went, I still have no idea!

Lee - an email will be coming your way later tonight.

[k2]

What goes up, must come down, but when it's your bloodsugar it's like, WTF, why the hell did it have to go up in the first place?
Glad 2 hear that u finally got the mystery high down and that u were able to indulge in some late night carb-a-roonies.
Kelly