The Day Apidra Died
It was the wee hours of Day 5.
Our Novolog sites easily made it 3-5 days, and I wanted to see if Apidra held up as long.
Apparently not.
Note to self: Change Apidra sites on Day 3-4.
Period.
So there you have it.
The
day we started.
The
experience.
The end.
More on our APIDRA experience...
The day we started.
The experience.
The trial end.
The 6 week review.
The verdict.
While I'm happy to share our experiences with what works, and what doesn't work, for the management of Type 1 Diabetes and Celiac Disease in our house, please do not mistake anything you read here for medical advice. Decisions regarding your/your child's health care should be made only with the assistance of your medical care team. Use any information from this blog at your own risk.
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That is pretty cool, though - you can see exactly where it stopped working! CRazy. :)
ReplyDeleteWe just tried Apidra for a couple of weeks and had the same experience. It would give out, sometimes in less than 3 days, so we had middle of the night set changes. Not fun! I hoped Apidra would make life easier, but it felt like the opposite. Since going back to Novolog, our daughter's BGs seem calmer. (Our T1D daughter is 8 and has celiac too, so I doubly like your blog!) Good luck!
ReplyDeleteHey, sorry about the high, but at least now you know what works for her. Hope she's come back down within range :0)
ReplyDeleteYes, this is what happens. Apidra is only guaranteed -- if that is the right word -- to work in the pump for two days, not three. She will often have a normal BS at 3am and then be 300 at 6am Day 2.5 but usually will easily go 3 days. So we sometimes do get caught unawares. She would be very unhappy changing sites every two days, Since the sites last 75 percent of the time for three days, I leave site changes to three days. I would not attempt to wait for 4 days; I think the site would usually fail at that point. Apidra is still worth it, though. But they can go really high, really fast.
ReplyDeleteI've been keeping up with all your updates on your apidra experiment. Very informative...thanks for sharing! Hope she continues on a good trend with it!
ReplyDeleteWow! You are brave to venture into day 5 territory! Knowledge is power though! Glad you got some answers. :)
ReplyDeleteWow - super dramatic!
ReplyDeleteyou crack me up - and now you know, right ?!
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