I have not had good blood sugar the last four days. Watching the little blips on Dex go crazy high and then plummet below my "low" mark has been nerve wracking to say the least.
What did I eat? Did I not exercise enough? Did I overdo my exercise? Am I stressed? Is it hormones? Is my meter calibrated right? Did I calibrate Dex right? What did I eat? Did I forget to bolus? Did I miscalculate carbs?
What did *I* do?
The last four days I blamed myself for my roller coaster blood sugars. They were horrible, really. Highs so high and not responding to insulin. And then when those highs finally started coming down I felt comfortable enough to eat and my sugar would shoot back up. I think Dex woke me up most of those four nights.
Sure, it occured to me that I had a bad set, but there were some scattered good numbers -- enough that I thought the crappy numbers really were my fault so I let it go.
I generally do an entire set change -- new infusion set, fresh and full reservoir -- in the morning before breakfast so that if I have a kinked set I know about it fairly soon instead of having an entire night of high blood sugar. But last night my reservoir was low and I knew I wouldn't make it through the night. (Should have been my first clue: I was using so much insulin that I couldn't make it my normal four days.)
In the two hours between the site change and going to bed I flatlined on Dex. I really thought it was a fluke considering how wacky my sugars had been the last four days. I had a bedtime snack and bolused appropriately.
This morning (after NOT being beeped awake by Dex) I saw a nearly 9-hour flat line. And that's when I realized I had been dealing with a bad site for nearly a week. Gah! Today's numbers have been beyond spectacular. I'm seeing nice pregnant bumps on Dex after meals and really cool nearly flat lines between meals instead of super high highs that leave me crashing hours later.
I've been in range for the last 24 hours and there is such a weight off my shoulders. *That's* the value of a good infusion site.
