Diabetes365 day 13 October 20, 2007 - No Delivery
To control my type 1 diabetes, I use an insulin pump instead of taking injections.Before each meal I use the pump to take additional insulin to cover the carbohydrates that are in the meal. The rest of the day (the whole 24 hours), the insulin pump delivers a small background dose (basal) of insulin.
And that's what normally happens for me. But this morning I was woken abruptly at 2:50 AM by a loud beeping and buzzing.
My insulin pump was displaying the error message No Delivery, which meant that it wasn't delivering insulin to me.
So I:
- Get out of bed to capture this photo.
- Get rid of the error message on the pump.
- Take additional insulin to cover my blood glucose level (around 220 mg/dL).
- Drink lots of water.
There's no cure for diabetes. Yet.
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Labels: diabetes365, failure, insulin, insulin pump
posted by Bernard @ 9:27 PM
3 Comments:
Hello Bernard
Some where on your 365 Photo Journal there was a reference to sending all the useless little caps back to Medtronic. This evening when I started to cleanup my site change mess --- I thought - why do we not take it one step further and send all of the expensive site change land fill and bio garbage back to Medtronic and let them deal with it. For variety we would could also send some to the insurance companies (for those of us that are lucky to have coverage)as they are paying for this expensive landfill they might as well look after the cleanup.
Send landfill packages to a variety of executives. Michael Moore and Al Gore may also be interested........
So why was your pump not delivering? Our 4-yr-old has the same pump, and frankly being beeped awake at 2 am would really freak me out.
Hello Bernard....I have been a diabetic for 30 yrs, on the pump for 7...for the last two years I began to have trouble with my pump and noticed my sugar spiking to over 300. I would then become upset, frustrated, and over-correct the situation and bottom out. I tried for months to find out what was going on...why this was happening over and over...until FINALLY someone figured it out. My body (white blood cells) was rejecting the little plastic piece injected under the skin...causing it to clog and prevent insulin from being distributed. Instead of changing my site every 3 days, I had to start changing every other day. I'm not sure if this is what is going on with you....but it could be a possibility if you can't find another solution. I also noticed on several occasions the end under your skin would bend frequently which causes a "No Delivery" reading. Just a little FYI.....Hope this helps. Tnova.
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