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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Westley" data-source="post: 2651896" data-attributes="member: 254425">To answer your initial question bluntly - yes, I think you are.This extreme focus on dust mites seems like a big distraction, and getting in the way of you improving your situation.I do believe allergies could play a moderate role in varying BG levels, but small compared to the basics of appropriate insulin use, diet, bodyweight and exercise, discussion of most of which seem conspicuously absent in this thread.It sounds to me like the real issue here is serious insulin resistance, the huge doses of bolus, a lack of basal, and I'm guessing diet.It seems quite predictable that these would lead to rollercoaster BG levels. MDI of fast acting insulin isn't good at maintaining steady levels on its own for T1s. These huge doses probably introduce a lot of variable absorption and injection site issues. Insulin duration is also dose dependent, so the doses are probably stacking in hard to predict ways. It also doesn't seem surprising that there would be occasional brief periods of stability in there when the overlaps just happen to balance right for a little bit - stopped clock twice a day and all that.What's that saying? - when you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras (or unicorns or galloping dust mites!)</blockquote>

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