03/27/2007: "Riddle me this"

I'm no doctor, but maybe you are. Maybe, if you are, you can explain this to me, because I'm at a loss.

Without insulin, my fasting blood sugar hovers between 100 and 110. A few times it's dropped into the 90's, occasionally it's been 112. But in general, 100 - 110. Now then. I introduced 6 units of long acting insulin at night on Friday. I've had absolutely no response to it. My numbers are still exactly the same as when I was not injecting myself.

When I told the perinatal NP this? Her regime change was to add 1 more unit to the injection. So now I'm supposed to take 7 units. I'm completely unclear what she hopes to accomplish by this. I went from no insulin to 6 units and saw no change at all. If 6 did nothing to budge the numbers, why would the addition of one more (which equates to an additional 2 drops, these units are so tiny) make any difference whatsoever?

I asked myself this all evening, hoping that a reasonable response would come to me. As it did not, I filled the syringe with 7 units (which is a real bitch because the space between 6 and 8 is itty-bitty) and did the deed.

And this morning, you know what? No change at all. Fasting blood sugar was 102.

Still... I'm no doctor. What do you (doctors and others) make of it?

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