Ive been on the OmniPod for exactly a month yesterday and i havent had anything over 200 since starting until this last pod.
My last pod i was over 200 everytime i checked my blood sugar except once and that time it was 189… Right now when i took off the pod it was 295 and 2 hours before i just did a bolus. So when i took it off i looked for maybe a bent canula or something but nothing. I also took a syringe to see how much insulin was left thinking maybe it wasnt working, but all that was left was about 19 units…
So before i put on my new pod, i did a correction this time with a syringe for 8 units which was at 9 and then i took a bath. I just checked it again (10:47) and it is 302… I put my pod back on at 10:40 so do you think it may have not gone down since i wasnt getting my 1.7 unit basal? Or maybe the hot bath had something to do with it.
It sucks though because i havent even ate yet, and i dont want to eat when my blood sugars are so high.
Anyone have any advice? Should i wait another hour then re check and if still high do another correction bolus?
Aaron, we’ve been using the pod with our 5 year old, Logan, for about three months now… the only time we had a consistantly high number, was when we placed the pod in a place where there wasn’t much fat on his body…
Did you place the pod somewhere extra lean?
Also, check and make sure your insulin is still good- maybe you need a fresh bottle?
If you are still getting high numbers even with injections, it’s not the pod… it could be the insulin.
Sorry…I’m usually quick to respond…especially to distress calls. Jen IS correct. It appears that you’ve got a bad bottle of insulin. Because …seems like you did the right thing. I have a directive that says “twice in doubt…change it out.” But when the injection by syringe still yielding no results…it’s the insulin.
I recently called Insulet about a similar day I had; new pod, BG would not come below 250 or 300 all day. They were helpful in trying to test theories about the cause, but the response from both the phone service rep and my CDE trainer the next day was, if you have 2 correction boluses that don’t bring down your BG, change the pod (and placement site) immediately, and change the insulin bottle if possible.
I thought it might have been the insulin but today im using the same bottle of insulin and i just checked like 10 minutes ago and it was 99… So i dont know.
I did have alot mexican food for lunch yesterday, maybe the carbs stayed for some reason.
I was told that too, but what was weird is that i did two manual injections for correction both with a little bit extra then what was suggested from the PDM since it was so high…
About taking he injection: the first thing I noticed when I started the pod a year ago was that the dosages were less than half of what I had been taking via injection for the same meals. For me, CSII delivery is a lot more efficient and effective than injections.
My point is that maybe the injections would have corrected it had they been higher doses.
Then again, maybe something else about your body chemistry was just messed up that day. BG balance is a complex system that involves at least 2 other hormones besides insulin and sometimes our bodies just “spaz out.”
