Oh boy, rocky mtns and shenandoah valley all in one. Let’s go skiing! The valley was during/after a nap. This ALWAYS happens, no clue why, no matter what my bg before. Mt Everest - 219 - was from a meal I’ve had a million times with almost flatlines. At 123 but don’t want to mess around with a correction bolus.
Downloaded the dex… it said 219 shrug. The lows it said 30s-40s, but I don’t think it was that low.
I’ll take the difference 
Ether way it’s way too high, and way too fast. I don’t usually feel the lows or highs when they’re gradual, but these actually felt like being on a rollercoaster LOL. Maybe a zip line since it’s so mountainous.
Ill take Danny’s word for it. LOL. 219 with an uphill trend like that is fast! I can imagine you feeling like being on a rollercoaster. Nice recovery from your last rocky.
Curious low. looks like you corrected then dipped again. The trend makes for a lovely seagull. =^) Id say its a well managed rollercoast ride.
"W"s and seagulls… what else can we create? LOL
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… another seagull???
Time to adjust my early am bolus, the first drop is around 2-3am (again), the second is napping, after eating a small kielbasa to try to eliminate the drop. The peak is a combo of DP and breakfast… again as usual. Gotta try extending my early bolusing time. Blech.
Blah is the sentiment here. The first peak was from meat pies that were mixed up. I was thinking I had artichokes and spinach, when it was actually meat and potatoes. Surprise, potatoes bomb! The second was because I had a decent about of IOB and wanted to hit the hay (it was 3am). So, I covered and changed the morning basal as well. Ill have to wait a few “normal” days to see how its working.
Sure am surpried about my basal amounts in comparison to others. Pretty interesting stuff.
About comparing basals: for some reason I was RELIEVED that there was another person who only had 2, like I do, and I was SURPRISED that there was one person who only had one! I guess I just don’t want to be any weirder than I already am, LOL!!
(And I’m NOT going to tell you good job for those Rocky Mountains!)
Well done Danny, Daphne (my dex) says 157.
Appreciate the pep talk! =^)
I think in all honesty, your just as strange as the rest of us. PWDs are just odd balls I think. Something about OCD and monkey-w00t immune systems.
Ill take 157 for off days. Nice management for a diabetic day. I am in process of adjusting my AM basals as well. Looks like we might both be in here testing for a while.
This actually does remind me of mountainous terrain.
Just tweaked my 2am-7am basal down .05… a little at a time. I hit a low of 39 again last night, drank a juice box after some struggle. Had it right next to the bed… those little straws in their little cellophane wrappers that have to go in that little hole, ugh. It carried me about an hour then back down to the low 40s. Looks like yesterday’s origami bird but with lower lows. I ate a small kielbasa before going to bed with no bolus. I think tonight I’ll try the juice box and some cheese or meat (if the dogs don’t get it first).
Haven’t figured out why I all of a sudden started crashing then. I’ve always dropped as soon as I lie down, nighttime or nap, and gone back up when I get up, but these last 4 days have been extreme. Maybe I need a piece of boston cream pie by the bed 
So, i uh… went hiking in the mountains! Well, not really, but my dex did:
First pump site failure, and you can see the end results. Sigh… swapped out site and came down other side of Mt Fail. lol
Well, it’s not a fail, because you accurately identified the cause of the high BG and acted on it. The rest of the line looks good! (I’m beginning to sound like Danny!)
Good catch and recovery Ken. Bad sets can lead to all sorts of trouble. Glad your caught it quick and delt with it swiftly.
Good catch Ken, and fast too! I wouldn’t call it a fail either - a challenge that you met head on.
Try the treetop applie juice cans. They are 20 carbs for 1 can, 7oz., and can be taken like a shot. As for the overnights, Im not sure that carbs is doing you any good, you may try to cut back .10 at a time and see if you opeak, then increase that if there is a need (I.e., skip the 30/40s).
Maybe less glucose stores recently? Or less glucose production while sleeping? any change in eatting habits?
Treetop it is next time I buy. Last night was fine… don’t know if it was the yummy empty carbs or not, but I didn’t want to go to sleep at 88. Went low but not scary low. No change in overall diet. Tonight will tell, I’ll repeat exactly what I did last night.
Thanks OS
Combination of: painful salivary gland infection, for which I’m on antibiotics (and going to have surgery to remove it a week from tomorrow), painful cat bite, which is being treated by same antibiotics, and running out of insulin while I was at a pot-luck brunch. I KNEW I should have refilled my pump before I went to the brunch, but spaced it. Interestingly, the pump said Zero Insulin, but it DID deliver part of a bolus.
Lines are between 50-120, and I never even got, much less stayed, between them. Highs (going backward) were 222,196,199,231 and 224. Lowest of the low was 126.
And I NEED lines like this to remind me that my diabetes did not go away while I wasn’t looking. And next time AR says he doesn’t know how I do it, I’m going to refer him back to this line; I don’t know how HE does it, LOL!
Hi Natalie,
sorry to hear of all your infections, but sounds like you’re on the mend. Hoping for a speedy recovery.
When my minimed shows 0, I can usually get another 10-20 units from it. What surprises me is that when I do let it run that low, and do a bolus, there isn’t even a warning !! with all the other alarms, you would think it would remind you that it thinks there is no insulin !