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What causes a spike to stick?

MushyPeaBrain

MushyPeaBrain

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Pump
So I woke up this morning with good BG. I'm using the libre and my current sensor is very accurate. I bolused 25 minutes before eating breakfast and then ate 20g normal breakfast. My BG rose to 8.8 ( slightly more than normal) and dropped back slightly to 7.6 and stuck. I could see it was stable and not dropping at all (fingerprick confirming). I bolused extra insulin and no drop at all. Bolused again and still no drop, or rise. Figured I might be slightly stressed as son is poorly so put temp basal of +20% on. To get my BG back to pre meal I had to do 2 further boluses. BG stayed stable and then had very low carb lunch of 6g. BG spiked to 7.8 again (never does this with low carb normally) and again is being very resistant to dropping.

I have been basal testing recently and tried a higher daytime basal but ended up having hypos. Site feels fine and is obvious working because stays stable once it's spiked. Any ideas why this happens?
 
Sometimes its unexplainable, I've been IDD for 44 years and used to concern myself over individual issues that shouldn't occur, but finally realised that sometimes random things happen that you cannot explain :) and its easier not to worry about these as you can never fix them.

I'm not talking here about issues that do repeat themselves and also are explainable and correctable.

Hopefully yours is one of those random ones.
 
Had a day like that last week where despite multiple boluses. I just stayed level. Sometimes it just seems to happen.
 
Glad it's not just me!! I think I'm more aware of these things since having the libre - maybe too aware sometimes!!
 
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