This Is My Brain: This Is My Brain On Diabetes, Site Change Edition. - Diabetes Stories

Diabetes is so damn different every day and at every turn. It's like a goddamn crapshoot!

3 days ago I filled up a new pod with 150 units of insulin (180 units is normally too much/too wasteful for me,) and placed it on my side boob.

95% of the time, boob sites work extremely well for me.

This time around, it worked freakishly well.

We're talking almost a solid flat line on my Dexcom for the past 72 hours except for post-meal normal spikes and 3 actual low blood sugar alarms.

All of the above had me seriously thinking like: Oh my God, did somebody kickstart my pancreas and not tell me?

Anyway, pod expires at 6:11 pm tonight.

I currently have 39 units in my pod.

Even if I keep the pod in for an extra 3 hours (and half of the 6 hours grace you get when your official pod time officially runs out,) I'll still have more than 30 units left.

Do I really want to start a new site/pod at almost 10 pm at night and post-dinner? NO, I DO NOT. Because then I have to stay up late and make sure everything is copasetic with the new site. 

Because if it isn't, then I have to start the process all over again.

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If I put less insulin in my new pod, there's a 50% chance that diabetes will flip it's bitch-switch and I'll go through my normal 150 units for the 72 hours post new pod activation and require even more insulin and I will have to change out the pod early. Unless of course, it doesn't.

Because who the hell knows what will happen/what will be required from a new infusion site and no matter the brand of robot pancreas. All of the above happened when I wore a pump with tubing.

Do I put less in the new pod and continue correction injections with the previous pod's remaining insulin?

Insulin is the 5th most expensive liquid in the world. - I don't want to waste it.

This is only a small portion of the diabetes necessary minutia that runs through our minds and on a daily basis.

This is why when a healthcare professional asks me how many units of insulin a day I look at them like they have 3 heads.

Every day requires a different amount of insulin because every day our blood sugars are different - and for dozens of different reasons and just because.

This is my brain. This is my brain on diabetes.

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This Is My Brain: This Is My Brain On Diabetes, Site Change Edition. - Diabetes Stories