Anyway, this isn't about that. I'm looking for advice, friends. The L-ster has some sort of croupy cough that her pediatrician saw fit to treat with steroids (prednisone). It's helped her cough a bit but oh em effing g, it has wreaked havoc with her BGs. Under direction from her endo, we have changed her sensitivity and increased her basal and are checking ketones blah blah blah but I was wondering if any of you with more experience than us can chime in with some handy hints to minimize the insanely high crap we've got to deal with for the next three days.
THANKS, GUYS. For your enjoyment, here's a pic of my goofy-ass family on my birthday.
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Just like everything with diabetes it is not an exact science, and it took me days to figure out doses, and once I figured it out I was done with the meds and then had to figure out how to drop my doses back down. I just remember testing, testing, testing and big time doses of insulin
ReplyDeletethanks, anon! that's what we've been doing so far. will keep on.
DeleteI've done the blood sugar dance to the steroid beat many a time. I find it best to slowly increase your basal rate and test like a MOFO until you start to see numbers that look normal - And don't focus on the fact that the temp basal rate might be higher than you'd like and or are used too.
ReplyDeleteIf it does the job, don't worry about it! Same thing goes for incrementally bringing the temporary basal rate back down.
I wrote about my experiences on the blog several times:
http://diabetesaliciousness.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-cortisone-bitchswich-flipped.html
Hang in there, this doable my friend, TOTALLY!!!
Kelly K~
kelly, thank you so much for those links. seems like through trial and error you really were able to get through without your BGs going as high as L's have been. we're on day 3 and after getting all this feedback, feeling much more confident about adjusting her basals. thanks again!
Deleteps. congrats to cristin on her new adventure! :)
Is it your birthday? Do we have the same birthday? And K2 too, I think?
ReplyDeleteYour family is looking adorable as ever.
I have no roid rage tips, but did find the courage (after facebook consult) to provide my pollen snuffler with Children's Claritin and that seems fine. Maybe she could take Children's Claritin. We are using the grape chewables.
my bday was earlier this month, go bulls!
Deletethanks, pal, you're too kind.
over the weekend when the cough started i had her pop a zyrtec. it didn't help but her BGs were crazy high, and then i looked on the internet and was like, oh. duh. glad kid's claritin seems to avoid those issues!
Insane amounts of insulin is the only thing I can say. It does require lots of testing & correcting and is a real pain. Things will slowly return to normal as the meds leave her system & that's a tricky dance too. Diligence! And good luck!
ReplyDeletethanks, tammy! we've been testing and correcting like crazy, but from all the DOC feedback i am encouraged to be more aggressive. thanks for taking the time to comment!
DeletePrednisone - nooooo! Hate that stuff. Hopefully you're well done with it now! We end up cranking up basals to +150% over about a day, staying there, then cranking down about half a day after the last dose.
ReplyDeleteFantastic picture, and happy belated birthday! Are you in May?
No advice, just miss you. That is all.
ReplyDeleteNOOOOOO! Still on roid rage?
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Love the picture!
ReplyDeleteAnd the beautiful thing about the DOC? We're here when you get done being busy. :-)