Re: [IPp] bad sites
What type of set are you using? This sounds like our experience with the
straight in type. It was hitting the muscle and blocking the tube.....we
would get about 6 hours and then up, up, up....
--
Kristen - mom of Katie (15), Joe (13) and Will (11, dxd 3/05, pumping Cosmo
since 1/06)
On 4/6/07 12:52 PM, "Lisa Hepner" <email @ redacted> wrote:
> We have had three bad sites in the past day and a half. Gavin's blood
> sugar skyrockets and will not come down and then we take the site out
> and there is blood in the canula. Once we replace the site his blood
> sugar comes down quickly, but then six or seven hours later the cycle
> repeats. He just had a skyrocketing blood sugar and I corrected with
> an injection instead of through his site. I took the pump off and did
> the bolus which came out fine, but it was red indicating that this is
> most likely a bad site again.
>
> I am going to wait to take it off and reinsert it because he screams
> and kicks every time I change his site.(we try to do it in his sleep).
> He just had a complete meltdown over the injection so I am waiting to
> do anything else until I brainstorm a bit.
>
> Any suggestions?
> .
.
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