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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James472" data-source="post: 2651699" data-attributes="member: 471261">Only time for one tonight ...........Hi [USER=101136]@Jaylee[/USER] ,Just had some thoughts last night based on what you'd written, not saying they necessarily apply, but let me throw them out there anyway (in my usual rubbish dump fashion !), and you can pick and choose, or laugh !  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Re: your impression of cartridge potency ..........I don't think it would be this, but I'll include it anyway, if only so you appreciate I'm trying to think of all possibilities ........... years ago, the older insulins I seem to recall, were more temperature sensitive.  So is there any possibility, that your lifestyle routines involve 'some' cartridges suffering higher temps for certain durations, and maybe that is having a negative effect after a few days.  Although, I wasn't aware that even Novo & Lantus sufferered that too much, being a bit more modern than the insulins I'm thinking off.Now, if there is any meat to the scenario I'm talking about in the thread, could it be that you have a bad day / bad night (due to my 'unknown source' - and remember, most occasions are associated with nasal rhinitis, but some aren't), and that actually, there's nothing wrong with your cartridge.  The only way to test that, would be to leave that cartridge aside for a day or two, and then try it again.  Maybe even a 3rd time, just in case the 2nd time is also a bad day !  So maybe there's nothing wrong with the cartridge, maybe it's just a bad day, or bad couple of days.And if the cartridge does seem OK on 2nd trial, or even 3rd trial (if you can be bothered !  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> ), then the next question is ........ what's actually causing the bad day ?  That's harder work.Now, what you're describing as the 'stacking effect' - again, could be related to this 'unknown' thing I'm trying to pin down.  On the days when you're cruising at 5 with no basal onboard, you're almost non-diabetic !  I know I get weird periods like that, and I've heard others do.  Say I was right, and dust mites were involved, well ........ maybe the really bad days are when they're eating (and releasing their enzymes), but maybe there are other times when they're 'stag rutting' <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />, or moving colony, or something which doesn't affect us as badly, so our systems aren't then in auto-immune mode, and no longer need the insulin.I'll stick my neck out again, and say (and it's going to probably take longer to work this one out), I believe what we call 'sneezing' may actually have some meaning.  Maybe it's a signal that they use, either to say - hey folks, large food portion over here, or new colony set up here, or end of colony here - that clown on 2 legs has started again with the Eucalyptus !  I could easily be wrong on the sneezing theory, but I kinda just have a gut feeling about that, and I've been monitoring all of this for quite a while now.Only thing I can say regarding the insulin potency is, see if there's any other common denominator that happens around that time, and that's hard work, trying to identify the other common factor.Sorry [USER=101136]@Jaylee[/USER] - I probably haven't helped !</blockquote>

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