Gary_W
09-08-2009, 01:47 PM
Whilst my pump is generally the best thing to happen to my diabetes in a long time, it does have its moments.
I've been working away the last couple of days and had last night in a hotel. Just before dinner, I needed to do a set change back in the room. No worries. It went in fine, felt fine.
I went down for a beer before dinner. My head started pounding (nothing to do with the D, just one of those things). I took pain killers and went back to the room and got my head down for an hour. Woke up an hour later with a BG of 10.0 (180) and figured it was because I hadn't bolused for the beer.
I couldn't face going downstairs again as my head felt bad still... I ordered room service as I hadn't eaten. I was starving. Club sandwich and some fries. I know this is bad news for many folks on here but I always do fine with that kind of food... Honest :)
It took an hour and a couple of phone calls to turn up meaning I ate it at 10.15 at night. I bolused for it (guestimating as you do when you're out). I set my alarm for 2am just to check things out and went to sleep.
When the alarm woke me up, I was really thirsty. I tested as a 20.0 (360), my highest score in years. With corrections and me, I find that for every point over the 10.0, I need to add 10% to the suggested correction bolus on the pump. I've tested this theory up to a 16, but haven't gone this high. Adding 100% onto the suggested dose whilst in a hotel room alone doesn't sound like a good plan. I add 70% and decide to test 2 hours later again. When the bolus goes in, I notice a strong smell of insulin and the site is wet! How much went in and how much went on me? You tell me.
So there I am changing a set at 2am trying to decide quite how much more bolus I want to risk. I pop some more in.
2 hours later, I test and I'm still a 20.0. So I correct again.
Woke up at 6.30 as an 8.8. I shower and by the time I'm down to breakfast 30 mins later I'm 3.1.
I've kept pretty stable all day, but you just don't need this kind of ****. When I took the offending site out, the canula looked like a fishing hook. I haven't managed to bend one like that in months, and certainly I've not done that when it felt A1. It gave me no clues at all.
No moral to the above. Just sharing ;)
I've been working away the last couple of days and had last night in a hotel. Just before dinner, I needed to do a set change back in the room. No worries. It went in fine, felt fine.
I went down for a beer before dinner. My head started pounding (nothing to do with the D, just one of those things). I took pain killers and went back to the room and got my head down for an hour. Woke up an hour later with a BG of 10.0 (180) and figured it was because I hadn't bolused for the beer.
I couldn't face going downstairs again as my head felt bad still... I ordered room service as I hadn't eaten. I was starving. Club sandwich and some fries. I know this is bad news for many folks on here but I always do fine with that kind of food... Honest :)
It took an hour and a couple of phone calls to turn up meaning I ate it at 10.15 at night. I bolused for it (guestimating as you do when you're out). I set my alarm for 2am just to check things out and went to sleep.
When the alarm woke me up, I was really thirsty. I tested as a 20.0 (360), my highest score in years. With corrections and me, I find that for every point over the 10.0, I need to add 10% to the suggested correction bolus on the pump. I've tested this theory up to a 16, but haven't gone this high. Adding 100% onto the suggested dose whilst in a hotel room alone doesn't sound like a good plan. I add 70% and decide to test 2 hours later again. When the bolus goes in, I notice a strong smell of insulin and the site is wet! How much went in and how much went on me? You tell me.
So there I am changing a set at 2am trying to decide quite how much more bolus I want to risk. I pop some more in.
2 hours later, I test and I'm still a 20.0. So I correct again.
Woke up at 6.30 as an 8.8. I shower and by the time I'm down to breakfast 30 mins later I'm 3.1.
I've kept pretty stable all day, but you just don't need this kind of ****. When I took the offending site out, the canula looked like a fishing hook. I haven't managed to bend one like that in months, and certainly I've not done that when it felt A1. It gave me no clues at all.
No moral to the above. Just sharing ;)