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...
Oh Caro, hang in there!
Posted by: Colleen | 25 Mar 2008 23:48:48
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?
Posted by: Scott K. Johnson | 26 Mar 2008 02:09:52
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
Posted by: Lee | 26 Mar 2008 08:26:25
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.
Posted by: Caro | 27 Mar 2008 09:24:50
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
Posted by: k2 | 31 Mar 2008 01:36:12