# Daisy Mae's swimming BG thread
**URL:** https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/daisy-maes-swimming-bg-thread/894
**Category:** Sports & Exercise
**Tags:** exercise, blood-sugar, swimming
**Created:** [May 11, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/daisy-maes-swimming-bg-thread/894 "2017-05-11T23:29:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 39
### Author:  [@daisymae](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/daisymae)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2017, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/daisy-maes-swimming-bg-thread/894/761 "2017-08-12T17:57:12Z")
so i would (with my Medtronic Pump) a 150% basal rate?
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2017, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/daisy-maes-swimming-bg-thread/894/762 "2017-08-12T18:00:20Z")
That sounds good. You just replace some of the lost basal, not all of it.
But hopefully you will get to swim. Trying it in less-than-perfect circumstances is a great way to learn!
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### Author:  [@daisymae](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/daisymae)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2017, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/daisy-maes-swimming-bg-thread/894/763 "2017-08-12T18:04:54Z")
OKAY, here goes: my BGs refuse to come up. DAMN IT. i have been off my pump for 1 hour and 45 minutes. i even ate some cheese and some peanut butter. Nothing. so its almost 2 hours off my pump ( 0% basal ).
so now, if i understand correctly, i have been off my pump more than just the hour that you used as an example. would i do a **2 HOUR TB OF 150%?**
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### Author:  [@daisymae](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/daisymae)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/daisy-maes-swimming-bg-thread/894/764 "2017-08-12T18:16:17Z")
set the TB for 150% for 2 hours. going to get myself some more yogurt at the market. i am absolutely starving. need to fuel up today for tomorrows swim 😉 .
thanks eric. hope it all works out well. feeling very frustrated. bummed out.
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2017, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/daisy-maes-swimming-bg-thread/894/765 "2017-08-12T19:19:31Z")
> [@daisymae](#):
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> set the TB for 150% for 2 hours. going to get myself some more yogurt at the market. i am absolutely starving. need to fuel up today for tomorrows swim
Sorry I was late to respond!
Yeah, if you were off for 2 hours, doing a 150% for 2 hours should bring you close to where you want to be.
You can do it that way, up to a point, and then it becomes easier to just do a replacement bolus instead. Like if it was 3 hours, I would not want to bump up basal for another 3 hours, I would just do a single replacement as a bolus instead. Hope that makes sense.
But anyway, 2 hours at 150% should be okay.
BTW, what was the highest it came up to after 2 hours?
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### Author:  [@daisymae](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/daisymae)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2017, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/daisy-maes-swimming-bg-thread/894/766 "2017-08-12T20:33:22Z")
> [@Eric](#):
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> BTW, what was the highest it came up to after 2 hours?
1.
I bolused to eat at 3pm, and my BG was 122. that was 3 hours after turning my pump off.
now i am just waiting to see how i responded to the 150% TB. (i was thinking that it might have been easier to just bolus for 1/2 the missed units. but then i might have crashed from getting a straight-out bolus all at once. ??? food for thought (yes, pun intended 😉 ).
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### Author:  [@daisymae](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/daisymae)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/daisy-maes-swimming-bg-thread/894/767 "2017-08-12T21:39:01Z")
eric, i just tested 2.5 hours post meal. this is after the 150% TB had ended. from 122 pre-meal, i spiked to 221 post.
i am guessing that this is b/c of the lack of basal i had been missing for those 2 hours???
i did a correction with a syringe, and detached from my pump and bloused the 1 unit so that the pump could show me how much IOB i was dealing with. (pretty clever of me, huh? )
will this level out? its just been one of those days, ya know?
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### Author:  [@daisymae](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/daisymae)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2017, 9:40pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/daisy-maes-swimming-bg-thread/894/768 "2017-08-12T21:40:19Z")
first i couldn’t get my sugars up, now i have to bring them down. i hate the D roller coasters.
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2017, 11:43pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/daisy-maes-swimming-bg-thread/894/769 "2017-08-12T23:43:26Z")
Hey DM. Just got finished with my beat down. I’ll go through your posts a bit more after I recover.
Cutting basal and then not exercising kinda screwed you up today. That’s a tough one. I do know how that zero basal can mess with things.
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2017, 11:56pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/daisy-maes-swimming-bg-thread/894/770 "2017-08-12T23:56:28Z")
> [@daisymae](#):
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> i did a correction with a syringe, and detached from my pump and bloused the 1 unit so that the pump could show me how much IOB i was dealing with. (pretty clever of me, huh? )
Hey, that’s a great trick! You are a clever one!
Nice!
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### Author:  [@daisymae](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/daisymae)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2017, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/daisy-maes-swimming-bg-thread/894/771 "2017-08-13T00:31:05Z")
thanks for the vote of confidences today. its funny though, b/c when i was giving myself a shot i remembered your post about the length of the needles. i was rumaging through every D supply i have on hand, and all i had were those darned 4mm syringes. then i started obsessing about whether or not it would work. why on earth do i only have these incredibly short syringes?
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2017, 12:35am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/daisy-maes-swimming-bg-thread/894/772 "2017-08-13T00:35:02Z")
Hey!! I sent you 200 8mm syringes!!! Use one of them!
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### Author:  [@daisymae](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/daisymae)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2017, 12:36am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/daisy-maes-swimming-bg-thread/894/773 "2017-08-13T00:36:13Z")
i cant find them. all i can find are the 6mm 1/2 units you sent me. i’ll keep looking i’ll go and look for them right away. they MUST be in there somewhere.
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### Author:  [@daisymae](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/daisymae)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2017, 12:56am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/daisy-maes-swimming-bg-thread/894/774 "2017-08-13T00:56:27Z")
i found the ones that you sent me that have the 1/2 unit markings on them; they are 6mm.
BUT i did find an entire box of 8mm ones that are from my pharmacy. they were on the bottom of the pile.
in the future, i’ll know which ones to use. i can be a real scatter brain sometimes. 😉
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2017, 12:57am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/daisy-maes-swimming-bg-thread/894/775 "2017-08-13T00:57:44Z")
The syringes I sent you are 8mm. I promise, cross my pancreas, hope to die.
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### Author:  [@daisymae](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/daisymae)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2017, 1:01am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/daisy-maes-swimming-bg-thread/894/776 "2017-08-13T01:01:07Z")
**OMG!!!** youre 100% right **!!!**
i found them. boxes of bags of them !!! you’re an angel. today was one hell of a day for me, huh? and my husband isnt home this w/end so i am kind of off my rocker to begin with. 😊
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### Author:  [@daisymae](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/daisymae)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2017, 1:03am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/daisy-maes-swimming-bg-thread/894/777 "2017-08-13T01:03:03Z")
> [@Eric](#):
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> I sent you 200 8mm syringes!!! Use one of them!
i think i’ll use one of them just for the heck of it; i’ll fill it with chocolate milk.
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2017, 1:03am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/daisy-maes-swimming-bg-thread/894/778 "2017-08-13T01:03:31Z")
> [@daisymae](#):
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> BUT i did find an entire box of 8mm ones that are from my pharmacy.
30 units, BD brand, 31 gauge, 8mm needle length, 2 boxes of 10 packs each, 10 syringes per pack. In a cardboard box with a postmark from Georgia…
Those are the ones from me, not the pharmacy! 😜
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### Author:  [@daisymae](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/daisymae)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2017, 1:04am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/daisy-maes-swimming-bg-thread/894/779 "2017-08-13T01:04:25Z")
refer to my previous reply
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2017, 1:11am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/daisy-maes-swimming-bg-thread/894/780 "2017-08-13T01:11:20Z")
> [@daisymae](#):
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> i found them. boxes of bags of them
Glad you found them!
If you want quick delivery, try one of those in the back of your calf.
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