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Last night I checked my blood sugar before going to sleep. It was 73. <\/strong>I checked my pump and saw I had no active insulin, but fearing a low, I ate a two small pieces of watermelon- just in case.<\/p>\n

This morning when my alarm woke me at 4:55am I staggered quietly out of bed and checked my blood sugar before getting ready to run. \u00a0228<\/strong>!\u00a0 I assumed that my high waking sugar was a “rebound” from an overnight low.\u00a0 This is known as the Somogyi effect or rebound<\/a>, and it’s something I suffered from frequently before getting an insulin pump.\u00a0 Normally after an overnight low I feel terrible in the morning and sometimes can barely lift my head.\u00a0 This morning I didn\u2019t feel that<\/em> bad\u00b8I just felt a little hammered- something I could attribute to three mornings of waking up pre-dawn.\u00a0 (Monday and Tuesday were 3:55 a.m. wake ups).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Other than the Somogyi effect, I couldn\u2019t think of any other explanation for my ridiculously high blood sugar so I took some insulin to get my blood sugar down to normal.\u00a0 And since I\u2019ve had very little success running after nighttime lows, I went back to bed.<\/p>\n

At 7:30am I felt fine and went about the usual morning chores .\u00a0 At 8:15am my blood sugar was 238<\/strong>. Frustrated, I bolused again.<\/p>\n

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A few minutes later I looked at my infusion site. I’ve been placing my infusion sets a little bit toward my back after getting some good advice, once again, from Jerry Nairn<\/a> on TuDiabetes “Diabetics Who Run Marathons”<\/a>.\u00a0 Jerry suggested this as a place where the set won’t come out while running.<\/p>\n

My site looked more or less fine, but I decided to change it anyway since it had already been a few days. When I detached the set I understood why my blood sugar had been so high even after I bolused. The set had detached and the cannula was out and bent down.<\/p>\n

\"Broken<\/a><\/p>\n

Annoyed, I changed my infusion set and decided to try and lower my blood sugar and my frustration level by running. It was late (9:00am) and very hot and humid, but I decided to run any way. Since my blood sugar was still high I didn’t lower the basal rate on my pump. I stopped to check my blood sugar after 35 minutes. It had dropped to 195. I decided to lower the basal rate to 35% (where I usually run) and continued for another 25 minutes. The heat was unbearable and after an hour and a little under 7 miles, I decided to stop.<\/p>\n

When I got home I checked my blood sugar again. It was 160. Not perfect, but better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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