Hi guys
I've not been on for a while but I'm experiencing some weird things at the moment and I'm nearly at the end of my tether, it's so frustrating!
I've been seeing it for a while now, but I used to only get it right after a cannula change. Sometimes, my BG would 'shoot' up to 12-14 and whatever I do, it wouldn't budge. No correction or temp basal would make it come down. I used to think I must have been too adventurous with cannula sites and found a place with bad absorption, or hit a muscle or something. I would change the cannula and my levels would come down back to normal almost straight away.
The last few weeks though, the same thing has been happening to me but to cannulas that were on day two! They were fine on day one, but then all of a sudden again my levels shoot up to 12-14 and won't come down. The other night I had tried 3 correction boluses and two cannula changes and by 12am it hadn't even come down by 1 mmol! Then, 6 hours after the first correction they all 'hit' and I spent the entire night fighting off hypo after hypo.
Last night it happened again, but I was wise enough to give up after the second correction. This morning I woke up on 6.5 and it's been fine again until the scheduled cannula change on day 3.
I use the Silhouette cannulas. I've already tried to explain this to my DSN but she had never heard of it before - has anyone on here ever experienced the same?
The strange thing is that my BG doesn't go UP either, it just sticks really firmly between 12 and 14, and every time it happens it rises up to the same levels!
I've not been on for a while but I'm experiencing some weird things at the moment and I'm nearly at the end of my tether, it's so frustrating!
I've been seeing it for a while now, but I used to only get it right after a cannula change. Sometimes, my BG would 'shoot' up to 12-14 and whatever I do, it wouldn't budge. No correction or temp basal would make it come down. I used to think I must have been too adventurous with cannula sites and found a place with bad absorption, or hit a muscle or something. I would change the cannula and my levels would come down back to normal almost straight away.
The last few weeks though, the same thing has been happening to me but to cannulas that were on day two! They were fine on day one, but then all of a sudden again my levels shoot up to 12-14 and won't come down. The other night I had tried 3 correction boluses and two cannula changes and by 12am it hadn't even come down by 1 mmol! Then, 6 hours after the first correction they all 'hit' and I spent the entire night fighting off hypo after hypo.
Last night it happened again, but I was wise enough to give up after the second correction. This morning I woke up on 6.5 and it's been fine again until the scheduled cannula change on day 3.
I use the Silhouette cannulas. I've already tried to explain this to my DSN but she had never heard of it before - has anyone on here ever experienced the same?
The strange thing is that my BG doesn't go UP either, it just sticks really firmly between 12 and 14, and every time it happens it rises up to the same levels!
