Thanks everyone… here’s the latest installment…
Last Friday, I called medtronics because they had shipped the wrong reservoirs. First guy I talked to wanted to charge me for them, even tho they shipped the wrong ones. Finally get to talk to someone in Returns who says I will have the correct ones on Tuesday. Still haven’t received them by Wednesday, so I call back… guess what? no record of the return. Let’s just say that this is been less than a pleasant experience and my impression of Medtronics is not a good one. The lady I spoke to today there was really appalled at the situation and has it taken care of, I just got the return label and it’s been about half an hour.
So while I’m frustrated, I call my Medtronics rep and explain to him what has been going on. He offers to get me hooked up with one of their trainers and calls the doctors office. About half an hour after that, the doctor finally returns my call from this morning. We do indeed increase my basal rates and lower my carb ratio from 1:10 to 1:8. I also took a normal injection of Humalog to get my sugar levels down. I am drinking a ton of fluids, not sure if I am going to be able to drink enough to avoid some IV fluids tho. The last time I was ketotic like this, I was getting over the flu, took me several days to stop spilling
I guess I am really uncomfortable dropping a manual injection into the middle of the settings changes, seems like it will just make it a cluster to figure out and things seemed to be jacked up enough all on their own.
Thanks for the tips and support kids, I appreciate it even if I am old and cranky