dka, Stress, etc.
Hello Jenny, Joan, others…
Joan… let me get this straight…. someone had the gaul to tell you it was your GLOTTANY, meaning I take it your eating that was the “certain source” of a series of highs you were/are having ????? Just need to get that straight, in my own head…
Are you eating such that eating could be the trigger of your highs? Did you ever have a past habit that direction?
Jenny,
DKA and the pump is a known phenomina, at least when I where I was trained. Everytime the pump didn’t work 100% textbook perfect… DKA was guaranteed to follow, period. It was 100% guaranteed. If a high hit and couldn’t be knocked down, DKA was hiding in a corner and happy to have a seat….!
Stress to the degree you seem to be talking could definitely do the job. However, the short acting insulin should have brought it down. I don’t care how high, I can knock it down unless I am developing something? Any chance it could be that time of the month? Stress added to your period could do the trick as well.
If you can’t knock the number DOWN………SKIP the pump bolus to bring the numbers down.
Use injections instead to cover see if the numbers come down that way.
If so replace the site, the tubing, and the insulin in the resevoir. If NOT try using a different insulin pen, or different vial of the short acting whichever you use… it might have been comprimised somehow…
Jeff
December 28th, 2004 at 1:18 am
Jeff,
I hit the fridge when I am stressed. It’s finals week, and I have a husband with a very short temper. (absolutely never hits, but is occasionally verbal with the kids…. this is stress inducing). Hence, the nursing school so I can at least have the option of getting myself and the kids away from the self-directed anger my husband displays at times. There are no friends or family here for support, and my parents would not help me with rent the one time I moved out, because they believe my place is here with my husband. So, I moved back in instead of going homeless. The fridge became my friend, and, voila, extra poundage and high sugars. I do not share this with you all for sympathy. There is light at the end of the tunnel, for I sit for the boards in May, and husband has agreed to seek some help, for he knows he has a problem (adult child of alcoholic). The fridge is becoming just an appliance again, and my jeans are beginning to fit a bit looser. The sugars still
bounce around at times, but I don’t think I have had one over 800 for quite a while. It used to stay there.
So. I have spilled my guts to a whole room of strangers. Rather cathartic, I must say. Thank you all for listening, and if you all find yourself getting stressed, at all, I would highly recommend exercising for stress relief. : ) Avoid the fridge at all costs.
Joan