Last night I had to suspend my pump because I was having a low and bolused for a snack at 5am when my husband and I came home from a bar… But forgot to check first and it started bolusing.
Well, I thought I turned off the suspend mode but apparently not because I woke up to this…
Over 600+
and this is how the entire day went below!
429
591
437
197
153
91
Took all day to get my blood sugar down, and during that whole fiasco I had ketones too. Ugh!
Note to self: Make sure to un-suspend!!
6 Responses to “What a day…”
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March 8th, 2010 at 7:39 am
Gina,
So frustrating - I know how hard you’re working… Gotta’ love seeing the happy number at the end of that trail, eh? Good job getting back on track!
Cheers!
A-D
March 8th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
Hi Gina. I’m glad to see you are back to normal. What were you able to eat throuout that day, as you were bringing your bg down? Bob West Virginia GentleB@gmail.com
March 8th, 2010 at 9:14 pm
Ouch - not fun! I guess when you set it to Suspend that you did not set a time frame (e.g. 4 hours)?
When you have BG’s like this - do you take care of your BG by injecting rather then using the insulin pump? Just curious. That’s what I do, especially when I have to do a BG correction and my pumps says to bolus for 4 units of insulin. I’d rather inject at that point in time! I tend to only bolus no more then 1.5 - 2 units at a time with my insulin pump.
Anyway, just glad things are back to normal. You had a good evening obviously with coming home at 5 a.m.! Whoo! Whoo! To be young again (I used to come home from a night out - at 6 a.m. - and then go to work for 8 a.m. (Thursdays were the big night for going out in younger days).
March 8th, 2010 at 9:54 pm
Bob- I didn’t eat till 8pm
Anna- when I suspend it doesn’t give me that feature to do a timeframe. You just have to unsuspend what I should have done was a temp basal instead that was really stupid on my part. Oh well, lesson learned! ughhhh
March 13th, 2010 at 3:50 am
Gina,
I have been down that “forgot to suspend” road before. What a pain! What I do know is do a temp basal rate of 0% for either :30 or an hour. That way if you forget, your pump reingages on its own.
BTW, are you still using your CGM?
Jim
April 23rd, 2010 at 9:57 pm
I feel for you. I hate it when my blood sugar doesn’t cooperate. Argh. How’d you manage to get it down? Im on insulin glargine. Are you?