Multifamily Utility
It took me nearly two months to finally get a solid range of good blood sugar numbers. Many checks would have me hovering in the 200's, only to be followed by a bottomed out low caused by a flagrant over-correction. The devil is in the details when it comes to pumping and I started out with the wrong details!
When I first started wearing the OmniPod, my doc and I erred on the side of less insulin each day. This would give a solid starting point in which to raise insulin flow from and keep any untimely lows from sprouting up while learning a new system. Learning the menus and button pressing structure was simple enough, I just played it too safe for my own good. I would spend chunks of time assessing blood sugar numbers and decide how to even them out, slowly increasing a basal rate here, lowering an insulin-to-carb ratio there, tweaking insulin profile segments based on blood sugar graphs. I felt confident in the changes I was making, but not confident enough in the larger jumps I should have made. A little voice of diabetes confidence was mumbling in the background, (two extra basal units a day won't hurt you-Kick it up a notch!), but a busy schedule and less time to focus on daily numbers kept me reined in.
The ability to change basal rates in increments of as little as 0.05 units per hour and bolus as little as 0.10 units was also too exciting to pass up. My common sense was overrun by this new minimalist approach to insulin delivery. Years of injections with one unit increments suddenly seemed archaic and this new found freedom was too enticing to resist. Even though I'm past the initial hang-up, it is still exciting to see 0.70 correction units pulsing away or a 4.20 unit meal bolus pop up, doing their part to ward off any progressive highs.
The whole works is sitting pretty at the moment. Each new pod I pop on gets fed the individualized data I have programmed in the wireless handheld unit. The data floats through the air and keeps steady, accurate streams of insulin doing their thing. I may have taken longer than expected to dial in my pumping numbers, but now, high blood sugars are scarcely adhering and lows are nearly diffused away.
