Small bump and brusing on injection site

[Skater P]

Did I mess up my lunctime bolus? My rising BG level suggest I might have.

Jab again or wait it out?

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Local 'betes team called me back, and suggested jabbing 2 (of the 3 that I tried at lunch) will see if this clears the my current BG high.

 

[rebrascora]

It happens occasionally when you nick a small capillary blood vessel with the needle. It isn't anything you did wrong, just the luck of the draw. It will gradually absorb and disappear in a few days. The insulin you injected should still work but may be a bit slower.

Quite surprised your team told you to inject more, but it depends how high your levels are.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Good to hear you have contact from your clinic @Skater P

Insulin going missing / not absorbing as expected is an unfortunate part of the exciting game of pretending to be your own pancreas.

A conference presentation I saw, once described subcutaneous insulin therapy as delivering “the wrong type of insulin, with the wrong activity profile, into the wrong place”! 😱

Hope your high BG has gradually and smoothly descended 🙂

 

[Skater P]

Quite surprised your team told you to inject more, but it depends how high your levels are.

I was up at 12mmol/L when I put the 2U in

Hope your high BG has gradually and smoothly descended 🙂

Lucky to say it did flatten out a very comfy 5 just in time for dinner (which didn't didn't send me much above 7)
I think I might be in the middle of a/the honeymoon period but that is for another post.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Lucky to say it did flatten out a very comfy 5 just in time for dinner (which didn't didn't send me much above 7)
I think I might be in the middle of a/the honeymoon period but that is for another post.

Fantastic! Did you resist the urge to stand on the table with your fist in the air and shout, “I am a diabetes GENIUS!!”?

 

[rebrascora]

I was concerned that that 2 unit "correction" would still be active when levels were at 5 before dinner and potentially cause a hypo later. Hope my concerns were unfounded.

 

[Skater P]

Fantastic! Did you resist the urge to stand on the table with your fist in the air and shout, “I am a diabetes GENIUS!!”?

I did, but only because in the last few week or so my T1D seems to have been set to easy mode lower spikes and soft landings.
Okay till I went skating on Wednesday having carbed up before hand and the skating did nothing but I should know by now that it doesn't at the time.

 

[Skater P]

I was concerned that that 2 unit "correction" would still be active when levels were at 5 before dinner and potentially cause a hypo later. Hope my concerns were unfounded.

I've been eating very late recently, I think it was 10pm last night, so it was out by the time dinner came around, and anyway going low just means pudding becomes a medical requirement (got to take the positives, right?)