{"id":163996,"date":"2010-01-11T02:10:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T07:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-1-diabetes\/47484-recent-troubles-raising-insulin.html"},"modified":"2010-01-11T02:10:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T07:10:46","slug":"recent-troubles-with-raising-insulin-doses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/163996","title":{"rendered":"Recent troubles with raising insulin doses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I&#8217;ve definitely been a little distracted by life lately.  Anyway, it has resulted in drastic changes for me over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>I was put on an insulin pump a little over three years ago and things were working out great at first.  My A1Cs were dropping, I went from around a 10 to below 7. I was using between 40-50 units a day.  Most all of my tests were right where I wanted to be and I really felt good about where I stood.<\/p>\n<p>Lately I have been up to 80 or 90 units of insulin on my pump per day.  My A1C has gone back up to 10.2 last month and I just can&#8217;t seem to dose enough insulin.  It&#8217;s crazy!  I admit I have gotten into some bad habits with diet and a little weight gain, and have gone from checking my blood sugar 6 or 7 times a day to sometimes only twice or three times in a day.  But It&#8217;s almost because I just don&#8217;t want to know how bad I&#8217;m doing.<\/p>\n<p>Is this normal?  has anyone else had a similar experience?  I swear sometimes I could dose 20+ units for a meal and it still isn&#8217;t enough.  2 years ago 10 or 12 units would&#8217;ve given me enough for half a pizza or something.  My endo says my c-peptide shows a reduction in insulin production.  but it still is showing a very small amount of insulin being produced.  It&#8217;s just hard for me to accept dosing 100 units a day.  it seems like an insane amount and I keep feeling like I&#8217;m overdosing when in reality I guess I am under dosing.  Does anyone else use this much insulin?  Am I becoming resistant?  I have put on a little bit of weight but no more than 15 pounds or so from when I was doing so well.   <\/p>\n<p>Life has been stressful and distracting the past couple of years, got married, bought a house, moved accross the country. I know this has resulted in me not giving my diabetes the attention I should, but I still feel like it doesn&#8217;t explain why I am having to dose twice as much for everything.  Before it felt like I could do no wrong&#8230;every dose was right on the money and two hours after food was close to 100&#8230;now I can do no right, everytime I dose, two hours later I am ridiculously high&#8230;..any thoughts?  I know this is may sound like a rambling mess, I am just at my wits end with this thing right now.  I can&#8217;t seem for the life of me to get things under control.  :confused: <\/p>\n<p>Any help is greatly appreciated<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve definitely been a little distracted by life lately. Anyway, it has resulted in drastic changes for me over the past year. I was put on an insulin pump a little over three years ago and things were working out great at first. My A1Cs were dropping, I went from around a 10 to below [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}