The doctor put me on a higher dose of Prednisone than I've ever had before! I got up to 319 yesterday afternoon and got into the 200's during the night. Woke up at 259 and took bolus for high and breakfast. Took half the dose of Prednisone he prescibed. Forgot to check my BS until noon! I was 519 at that time! Yikes. Took 8 extra units for that plus 2 for lunch. Should have NOT have ate! Took the second half of the Prednisone. Checked at 2 PM and got "High Glucose" ...Argh! Not sure how much to take as figured still had some left in me (I had taken it with syringe). But took 5 more units. Checked at 3 PM ...High Glucose! Can't rember what I did ... getting rummy, I guess. Though actually I feel fine! No symptoms of high glucose. But I think I decided I had 15 Units in me so wouldn't do anything yet. At 4 PM still says High Glucose. When is the insulin going to kick in? how high was I? have no way of knowing. Shall I wait another hour before giving another bolus ? Should I use the pump? Most of what I gave with syringe would be gone after 3-4 hrs, so it would be safe.
So what do I do? Just keeping checking and bolusing until it comes down? I'm guessing that is all I can do. I don't want to give myself so much I crash, but actually a low bg would be a relief right now!!!
Oh yeah, I should mention I'm drinking gallons of water!
