A weekend off type-1, now worse than ever!

I've had a day off before - i.e. a day of constant hypos, and then just eating lunch without insulin, and testing at 7 - 8 mmol/l.

The weekend gone, I had a whole weekend of it, and almost the Monday too.

I ended up dropping my basal a bit, but now it's back at 10U at night.

On the weekend, I kept drinking cherry beer (bacchus), and gulping syrups (that you put in coffee). I skipped insulin with my 40-carb lunch, and then at night I had a full big Lion bar - 50gr-carbs - and it did nothing. I thought I was cured.

Anyway now I'm finding that my insulin is hardly working. I have over-done some biscuits today and yesterday, but i'm testing at 13 on minute, then 10 the next, then I have a couple of units, and i'm 13 again.

Suspect my insulin has maybe got too warm. I take it to work with me.

Anyone else have these 'cured' days? It's happened one day in the past, and then two days this weekend gone. I thought it might have been because I gave up clomipramine - but I was only taking 3mg anyway, which is a third of the smallest tablet they do - barely even an active dose. Also wondered if it was the Steel Panther, waking up my sleepy pancreas, as well as the rest of me.

I forgot to say.. the other thing.. I put up lots of daylight fluorescent lights in my garage - making it into a paint room, but my engine broke so I spent almost 12 hours in there.

Anyone think daylight-frequency fluorescent lights can affect BGs? Maybe I should keep quiet until I get a patent

It's these lights.. 6,400k colour temp:
http://catalog.gelighting.com/lamp/linear-fluorescent/t8-tubes/f=t8-polylux-xlr-g13-cap/p=12943/d=0/

Yeah that sounds like what's happening.

I just had to google QA, BI, etc, and I figured out what CP was but didn't realise they were in 10s (thought you just ate tiny portions!)

So 1 unit insulin per 3 grams? That's a lot isn't it! Do lots of people require so much? I'm new to this.. I'm doing 1:10 with corrective doses at the 1.5-2hr point if needed. Lantus & Novorapid like you.

I'm sorry but if I had taken more insulin with BGs of 4mmol/l, I'd be dead.

Ah I see. Well I think my insulin has got too warm. I have been back on my usual routine since Monday, having thrown yet another pen away.

Over the weekend I was having constant hypos throughout the day - as in below 4mmol/l. 3.2, etc. I drank/ate sugary stuff, and had lunch without insulin, and still never went above 7.5. It would then drop drop again.. So for that day, taking further insulin would have been a bad idea I think.