One of those days

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I felt like blogging about my day yesterday, but didn't quite know how to do it, so last night I did it mostly with a single picture.

One of Those Days

The culprit seems to be my Apidra going bad. I took an INSANE amount of insulin yesterday and still did not see a single reading below 11 (and only one even close, at that). I tried shots (using the same batch of insulin as what was in my pump), corrected almost every hour, cranked my pump settings up, changed sites. Finally changed insulin which caused me to completely crash in the middle of the night. Put all my pump settings back down, ate a ton of food, woke up barely high this morning.

This is a first for me and Apidra. It's kind of scary to think about, in a way. I think if I hadn't piled on a TON of insulin (over a hundred units in one day!!!) I could have easily headed for something like DKA. Even with that much insulin my blood sugar was 14-20 (250-350) constantly. I only had a small amount of ketones when I finally checked after work, so obviously the massive amounts of insulin were keeping things from completely spiralling out of control, but still! I don't know of many other life-sustaining medications that would just stop working like that!

I feel like diabetes stole the whole day yesterday, even though overall it was just over 12 hours of ridiculous highs. Hopefully today will be better!

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That is a scary thought and unfortunately always a possibility with insulin. I glad you made it thru the day OK. Like you said there is always tomorrow.

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Jen I always really dislike it when insulin goes bad. Man I am like angry, angry. I am glad you found the issue. I have resorted to injecting and not using a pump if my insulin in take gets too large. I think pushing to mush insulin caused the abscess on my abdomen. I bought some syringes and have been worried to push to much now weeks.

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Ironically I had used a shot for a correction twice with no effect. Probably because I use the same insulin from the pens in my pump, so the insulin in the pen and in my pump were the last bits of the same batch. I've only ever had insulin go bad twice before, once was Humalog and once was an entire batch of Lantus. But both of those were close to ten years ago, so not recent in my memory.