{"id":35767,"date":"2014-04-16T09:12:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T13:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=35767"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:41:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:41:43","slug":"doing-diabetes-right-but-getting-it-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=35767","title":{"rendered":"Doing Diabetes Right, but Getting it Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I woke up feeling extremely tired last Thursday morning, and could feel that my blood sugar was high. I couldn\u2019t sit around drinking coffee and bolusing until I got it down because I needed to get blood work done that I\u2019ve been putting off for the last month. It couldn\u2019t be put off any longer or the results wouldn\u2019t all be in for my endo appointment at the diabetes clinic tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">My blood sugar has been high pretty much all the time for the last few months. I\u2019ve increased my basal rate and increased my bolus ratio, but I\u2019m still always correcting my high blood sugar, even when I haven\u2019t eaten anything. Even running doesn&#8217;t always get it down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I\u2019ve had plenty of things to attribute my high blood sugar to. First, I attributed the change in my blood sugar to hard marathon training and increased food intake. Then, I thought it must be a result of a decrease in training after the <a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/michael\/blogs\/exercise-blogs\/tiberias-marathon-2014-a-humbling-experience\/35115\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tiberias marathon<\/a>. Then I ran the Tel Aviv marathon (a total disaster) and then I was sick for a couple weeks. There were endless changes in my life to attribute the increase in my blood sugar levels to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">My fasting BG on the morning of my blood test was 285.\u00a0 When I returned from the lab, it was 304. Feeling lousy, I bolused. \u00a0I checked my blood sugar 40 minutes later and was happy to see it was slowly moving in the right direction. It was 280.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">An hour later I tested again and it was 317.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I decided to replace my infusion set, hoping that would do the trick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">When I removed the set from my body and took the reservoir out of the pump, I was overwhelmed by the smell of insulin. I looked at the reservoir and saw it was wet, covered with insulin. I looked into the chamber where the reservoir goes and saw drops of insulin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">At that point I called the Medtronic rep who helped me last time my pump broke. She told me to switch to a new batch of reservoirs and asked me if I could come in to their office (not far from my house) to get a new pump.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I drove to the Medtronic distributor\u2019s office and got my \u2018new\u2019 pump, which with a new infusion set and reservoir got my blood sugar levels down to normal quickly\u00a0 (a couple hours).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">When my blood test results started coming in as the day went on, my BG issues were clear as a vial of insulin.\u00a0 My fasting BG was 347 (40 points higher than the glucometer \u2013 go accuracy!) \u00a0and my A1c was 7.4%. (I also had ketones in my urine.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I don\u2019t know if all or most of my blood sugar issues over the last couple months have anything to do with my pump or faulty reservoirs. But, at least I\u2019ll have a good excuse for my endo tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Suffice it to say that it is <em>so<\/em> hard to figure out where the problem with out of range BG lies.\u00a0 You can do every step of the equation correctly, and the answer still comes out wrong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":53098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Doing Diabetes Right, but Getting it Wrong<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"My blood sugar has been high pretty much all the time for the last few months. 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