{"id":621666,"date":"2010-01-05T21:06:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T02:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/pumping-insulin\/47276-ever-feel-like-youre.html"},"modified":"2010-01-05T21:06:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T02:06:05","slug":"ever-feel-like-youre-pumping-insulin-and-its-having-no-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/621666","title":{"rendered":"Ever feel like you&#8217;re pumping insulin and it&#8217;s having no effect?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>So Glad I stumbled across this website.  This is my initial post and I am in need of some input or direction.  I have been on an insulin pump now for 15 years.  I am currently using the Medtronic Paradigm 512.  I have had 3 periods over the past 1.5 years where I am having nearly continual high readings.  It feels like I am injecting insulin that has gone bad.  This is especially true overnight.  The second time this occurred I figured out I, in fact, had an entire batch of bad insulin.  This time I am stumped.  I have doing a lot of troubleshooting including the following:<\/p>\n<p>1)  Called Medtronic and put the pump through 45 minutes of testing.  Pump did fine.  It is supposedly working.  Also I noticed all along that Insulin is coming out of the Silhouette setting tubing when I disconnect and do a fixed prime or a bolus.<\/p>\n<p>2)  Changed infusion sets, cartridges and sites multiple times and made sure to use an unused site several times.<\/p>\n<p>3)  Got new Novalog insulin from a different pharmacy and put it in the pump.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, out of sheer desperation and with a BS of 351, I changed my insulin and put in some older (but not expired) Humalog (instead of Novalog) insulin.  Today has been better, however, I have not gotten through the night yet.<\/p>\n<p>I am wondering two things: 1)  Can it be that the Novalog breaks down in my pump after about 12-24 hours while the Humalog does not?  My insurance co made me switch from Humalog to Novalog.  2)  Am I digesting my dinner overnight?  I have gastroparesis.  Would this explain the nighttime highs and does this happen to anyone else?  Any advice, suggestions or feedback from the pump pros would be much appreciated.  I feel like I am the only person in the world this has happened to when I speak with the pump company or my current lackluster endocrinologist.  I have set up an appt at the Joselin Center in Baltimore for the end of January.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Glad I stumbled across this website. This is my initial post and I am in need of some input or direction. I have been on an insulin pump now for 15 years. I am currently using the Medtronic Paradigm 512. I have had 3 periods over the past 1.5 years where I am having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2BIS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}