sugar over 600
I just wanted to let everybody who is new to the pump know to never leave
your sight in for too long. I never learn. I left mine in for 5 days
instead of 3. My sugar was over 600. My machine only goes up to 600 then
it says HI. I remember somebody from my pump company telling me that the
body sees it as something foreign and doesn’t let the insulin go through.
Someday I’ll learn not to do this. Just a little tip.
January 28th, 2007 at 8:01 am
Good Morning Lisa,
I think you meant SET (not sight), as in never, ever leave your infusion set in for more than 3 days!!!
I used infusion sets once in a great while for slightly longer than 3 days, but much after that ran into problems of one type or another, and knew full well I would.
Pump PROTOCOL said 3 days and three days ONLY… at least before 2000. More than that was just begging for trouble of some kind. Were you trained differently on your pump (ie to keep the set in longer)?
Having a splinter for more than a few minutes the body detects an “invader”. Longer than three days with a single infusion set (think of an itty, itty-bitty IV for you non-pumpers) and it makes sense the body would go, ~…HEY wait a minute this thing is plastic, ~not of the body~ (silly Star Trek reference) an invader sent help to get rid of it… kind of deal.
Every single time I disconnected for merely an hour, I rang the “DKA bell” in a way and to a severe degree I had never in the previous two-three decades, without the pump! Didn’t take me long to decide…
Jeff