Wondering what to do?????

[cheryl]

Ok, i like to do my site changes out 2 hrs after breakfast cause just incase I screw up or if the sites screw up I have all flippin day to fix it.......and i am awake and aware...

So anyway, I prolonged the site change by one day because number 1 the kids wanted to go to the lake and number two, I had enough insulin in the resevoir for another day, so yea I am a tight wad with insulin...

Anywho, so today I was 86 when I ate breakfast and my two hour post meal is 83 wtf.....ok weird ok if I didn't do a site change I would of ate something but since I just did I am not sure if I should of but I do have to do a prime of .6 units also, but if I didn't do it right or it is stubborn I am going to sky rocket....if not i might plummit...........

What would you all do eat something really tiny or wait about 30 minutes and test to see if your going lower.....I have not seen a 200 in almost 2 weeks and i don't want to start today...

Cheryl

[xMenace]

I always head low before lunch, so I'd have a small snack. But my DP lasts well into mid morning, so it'd be a very small 10g type of thing.

[JediSkipdogg]

You still have to prime. If you don't, then until that amount of insulin is "primed" you will start running high. Priming DOES NOT go into you at all. It simply fills the empty space in the infusion set from where the needle was taken out.

[poper77]

I am not sure this will really help your question, but thought I would throw 2 cents in on site changes. I ALWAYS do a site change before a meal, so that i can do a fairly large bolus. Supposidly the bolus pushes stuff out of the way under your skin making it easier for your body to accept the insulin. So if some kind of tissue is in the way you would slowly creep up because you have not bolused to help push it out of the way. I have found I have had less instances of running high after site changes doing it this way. I hope this comes out making sense....

[cheryl]

You know that does make sense, because Sunday I am having the same affect as I am having now, I had my low carb lunch that I always have because i did a site change and i am 187 two hours later....if I never ate anythng....and I figure if I wasn't getting insulin I should be higher then 187 after a meal.....so what I am trying to say once I ate dinner Sunday night and suffered another post meal spike, then I treated the high for two hours and went to bed with a normal number woke up at 57 oops.....then had beautiful numbers the next three days.....so you made sense maybe adding in an extra .5 units or so to the bolus for lunch might help me next time....I might attempt that for dinner.....i dunno yet....we'll see how I do....but thanks it makes a lot of sense...

Cheryl

[Cyborg]

I ALWAYS do a site change before a meal, so that i can do a fairly large bolus.

I actually stopped doing set changes right before a meal. Now, when I change a site, I try not to eat for a few hours afterward. The reason is that a few months ago my bg started skyrocketing when eating right after a site change. Not sure if I'm starting to have absorption problems, but after a few hours all seems well... :hmmmm:

[cheryl]

Well **** i went up to 210 and hour after that 187 corrected again, then down to 172, then down to 114 then when i was going to attempt to eat dinner 67 ok well all is working now, I dunno maybe i'll just skip lunch on these days and have a big arse breakfast before hand do a postmeal reading and then do the site change, I don't feel comfortable with bolusing big before a meal because i am not always stubborn it depends and what if I decided not to be then i am gonna go low too oh well such is life....

Cheryl

[JediSurfer]

Oh Cheryl. my heart goes out to you my friend.

I would've smashed the **** thing into tiny pieces by now. I really don't know how you are managing to put up with all this.
Thru the right type of insulin to suit yourself and your knowledge of diabetes you would have less hassle injecting and non of this added stress. All you have to do is inject. Compared to all the other nonsense which comes with injecting is a drop in the ocean.

All my love as always
Rich

[cheryl]

Oh Cheryl. my heart goes out to you my friend.

I would've smashed the **** thing into tiny pieces by now. I really don't know how you are managing to put up with all this.
Thru the right type of insulin to suit yourself and your knowledge of diabetes you would have less hassle injecting and non of this added stress. All you have to do is inject. Compared to all the other nonsense which comes with injecting is a drop in the ocean.

All my love as always
Rich

Thank you Richy you always know how to make me smile, now i am doing well again, it is sad as long as the sets work i do so wonderfully, it is a big pain sometimes it really is.....but so where all my lows with lantus i dunno anymore what to do or what the right answer is.....all i know it is a big hassle to trust sets and be close to a DKA if something can go wrong, but I always had to live according to the lantus, like i got low all the time, no matter what atleast with this thing, i beat the low's most of the time...now....if i can't come to a happy medium i dunno i might just go back i will give it a little while longer.....

Thanks again for your understanding and your support
Cheryl

[JediSurfer]

Maybe you could try a different pump which uses a more reliable set? Is it possible to switch and change that way?

Rich