so i would (with my Medtronic Pump) a 150% basal rate?
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!
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%?
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 
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thanks eric. hope it all works out well. feeling very frustrated. bummed out.
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?
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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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?
first i couldn’t get my sugars up, now i have to bring them down. i hate the D roller coasters.
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.
Hey, that’s a great trick! You are a clever one!
Nice!
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?
Hey!! I sent you 200 8mm syringes!!! Use one of them!
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.
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.
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. 
i think i’ll use one of them just for the heck of it; i’ll fill it with chocolate milk.
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! 
refer to my previous reply
Glad you found them!
If you want quick delivery, try one of those in the back of your calf.