My daughter started on a pump last Monday and I know that it is still early days but her numbers are much worse than when she was on injections, and they weren't so good.
We have had really good night time levels on a couple of occassions but generelly they are poor.
Yesterday we had to change her canula as it was hurting her so we thought that this could be causing the high numbers. After changing it her levels were 7.8 within 4 hours, GREAT, that was at 5 pm then when we tested her at 8 pm she was up to 18.5. I gave her a correction dose of 1.5 units which should have brought her down to about 6ish, checked her again at 10pm and she was still 16.3, again at 12pm and she was 15.0 checked at 2 am and she was 13.8 so she was comming down but very slowly.
At breakfast time she was 9.9 and at 9.30am she was 13.4.
Her basal is 4.2 total for the day and night but her carb ratios are 11:1 or 12:1. Before the pump she was using 5 units of levermir at night and then around 15 to 20 units per day of novo rapid to cover her carb boluses.
I am so frustrated and up to now the pump has been a step backwards for us.
Will it get better soon as we feel like giving up and going back to the injections.
Lily is 7 and of slight build weighing only 26 kg so certainly not overweight.
:?
Sorry for the rant
Harry
We have had really good night time levels on a couple of occassions but generelly they are poor.
Yesterday we had to change her canula as it was hurting her so we thought that this could be causing the high numbers. After changing it her levels were 7.8 within 4 hours, GREAT, that was at 5 pm then when we tested her at 8 pm she was up to 18.5. I gave her a correction dose of 1.5 units which should have brought her down to about 6ish, checked her again at 10pm and she was still 16.3, again at 12pm and she was 15.0 checked at 2 am and she was 13.8 so she was comming down but very slowly.
At breakfast time she was 9.9 and at 9.30am she was 13.4.
Her basal is 4.2 total for the day and night but her carb ratios are 11:1 or 12:1. Before the pump she was using 5 units of levermir at night and then around 15 to 20 units per day of novo rapid to cover her carb boluses.
I am so frustrated and up to now the pump has been a step backwards for us.
Will it get better soon as we feel like giving up and going back to the injections.
Lily is 7 and of slight build weighing only 26 kg so certainly not overweight.
:?
Sorry for the rant
Harry