Dory
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Well, haven't been on here for a while but thought I had to share my experience last night with you - my first (yes, I know!) cannula kink....
changed set at 10pm as normal, when i inserted it I thought 'ooh, that feels a little odd, like it's hardly there'. Quick thought: 'uh oh, is it not in properly?' (which I think EVERY time i change a set) so the sensible side of me said 'stop thinking like that silly girl!', I primed the set, checked for leakages (none) so was satisfied it was ok and went off to bed.
Didn't get off to sleep very easily but a few hours after I did, my pump alarm went off. In my semi-conscious state, i assumed it was telling me the cartridge was low (realised this morning that my cartridge was only half empty so I must have REALLY been out of it to think it was that!) so I silenced it and went back to sleep. A few hours later, it alarmed again and this time I blearily looked at the screen to see the message 'occlusion'. Thinking it would be in the tube somewhere (which I do find happens occasionally), I stopped the pump, unhooked it, flushed the tubing and reattached it (all with my eyes closed and half asleep I would add!). turned over, went back to sleep.
...or at least, I would have liked to. 5 minutes later, more bleeping and this time i did wake up, checking the tubing. All ok there. I wondered what was going on but got up to go to the loo. Whilst up, I did a mental body scan and thought 'ooh, I feel a bit dry mouthed, I wonder if my reading's high?'. Tested to find it was 14.9. Which, given I'd done 2 lots of HIT in the last 24hrs and had gone to bed with 5.9, was very worrying.
Thought it must be the cannula, so I changed it - it was only when I pulled the old cannula out I found it was as the picture........ so I'd gone 6 hours without proper insulin dosage (god only know how much I had actually got from the kinky cannula). gave a correctional dose, then off to bed again.
As a result, was shattered this morning when I was up at 6am but sugar was 6.9 so went off to work....only for me to crash at 3.2 when I got in the office at 9am!
This has come at the WORST time: just yesterday I read the article in the paper of the pumper whose pump faulted and she developed KDA. Left work and just home now, shattered, head-achey and with loads of work left to do.
Diabetes 1 - Rachael 0.
changed set at 10pm as normal, when i inserted it I thought 'ooh, that feels a little odd, like it's hardly there'. Quick thought: 'uh oh, is it not in properly?' (which I think EVERY time i change a set) so the sensible side of me said 'stop thinking like that silly girl!', I primed the set, checked for leakages (none) so was satisfied it was ok and went off to bed.
Didn't get off to sleep very easily but a few hours after I did, my pump alarm went off. In my semi-conscious state, i assumed it was telling me the cartridge was low (realised this morning that my cartridge was only half empty so I must have REALLY been out of it to think it was that!) so I silenced it and went back to sleep. A few hours later, it alarmed again and this time I blearily looked at the screen to see the message 'occlusion'. Thinking it would be in the tube somewhere (which I do find happens occasionally), I stopped the pump, unhooked it, flushed the tubing and reattached it (all with my eyes closed and half asleep I would add!). turned over, went back to sleep.
...or at least, I would have liked to. 5 minutes later, more bleeping and this time i did wake up, checking the tubing. All ok there. I wondered what was going on but got up to go to the loo. Whilst up, I did a mental body scan and thought 'ooh, I feel a bit dry mouthed, I wonder if my reading's high?'. Tested to find it was 14.9. Which, given I'd done 2 lots of HIT in the last 24hrs and had gone to bed with 5.9, was very worrying.
Thought it must be the cannula, so I changed it - it was only when I pulled the old cannula out I found it was as the picture........ so I'd gone 6 hours without proper insulin dosage (god only know how much I had actually got from the kinky cannula). gave a correctional dose, then off to bed again.
As a result, was shattered this morning when I was up at 6am but sugar was 6.9 so went off to work....only for me to crash at 3.2 when I got in the office at 9am!
This has come at the WORST time: just yesterday I read the article in the paper of the pumper whose pump faulted and she developed KDA. Left work and just home now, shattered, head-achey and with loads of work left to do.
Diabetes 1 - Rachael 0.
