Author: Injecto

Also, I’ve been noticing that losing weight has it’s own set of issues with pumping, because as you lose fat, the pillowy layer betwee the canula and muscles for pumpers is drastically reduced, making site failures more common.

Perhaps my question is more directed at those who have lost enought fat to make this happen to them, or those who have always been "leaner". Do you have these kind of issues, and if so, how to deal with them.

Maybe I need to change pump company completely to get a different better suited type of set?

How do you know if you’ve suddenly (over a few months) developed any insulin resistance vs whether your body just drastically changed your insulin needs to a much greater amount?

Seems my relatively little insulin needs have skyrocketed in the last two months, to the point where nothing I ever did in the last 3+ years works anymore. Not my ratios, sensitivey rates, basals etc….nothing. How the **** can everything just change so fast when everything else has stayed consistent?

Why, over the course of a month, would my insulin needs have dramatically increased?

For the last 3 years + I have been able to live on about 20-25 units of Novorapid per day, covering both my basal and bolus needs. Now, all of a sudden, I’m up to 35-40 units per day. My ratios used to be about 1 unit for 20/25 carbs. Now I’m at 1 unit for about 5 to 10 carbs. For me that is an unusually high volume. It’s scary because in the past, taking 6 units of insulin for a meal would most certainly mean having a low. I was nervous at anything over 4 units and would dual wave anything higher. Now, 6 units is seemingly nothing. Even 8-10 units per meal, without and dual or square waving, is fine. But I don’t get what would have happened in my body over such a short period of time.