I've copied this right from the link above. I don't like seeing really high numbers, I'm more comfortable when they are closer to 300. I wonder if I'm doing something wrong. His diet has been very consistent since March 9, 2018. Except he didn't want to eat much tonight.
" Repeated overdose with
long-acting insulins can even cause high, flat numbers all day long."
"A good explanation of Somogyi is that it occurs when too much insulin has been administered,
but the amount of overdose is
not enough to cause an
actual, full-blownhypoglycemia incident. Because the body detects the fall in blood glucose, the
counterregulatory hormones are released just as though it was a true hypo emergency. They signal the liver to release its
glycogenstores and convert it back to glucose
[10]."
"It's unusual to be monitoring glucose right when this happens, and typical to just continue the overdose, leading to a repeated rebound situation. So it's good to learn to recognize the patterns of repeated rebound.
- A typical rebound pattern, most often seen with long-acting insulins, is a high, flat, unresponsive blood sugar over a period of days. Sometimes, often when raising dosage, this high flat curve will be punctuated by sudden drops to very low values, (with possible hypoglycemic events) followed by a fast return to high unresponsive numbers. (It's the sudden dip that distinguishes this pattern from inadequate insulin, but it doesn't always happen.)"
