# GETTING BACK INTO THE POOL (after 2 years away) **URL:** \ **Category:** Sports & Exercise\ **Created:** [May 24, 2022, 8:19pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/getting-back-into-the-pool-after-2-years-away/12729 "2022-05-24T20:19:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 94
**Author:** ![daisymae](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/daisymae/32/1199_2.png) [@daisymae](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/daisymae)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/getting-back-into-the-pool-after-2-years-away/12729/94 "2022-07-18T17:58:34Z")
**BG HIGHS AFTER PUMP MALFUNCTION EXPERIEMENT #1:** well my overnight BGs were perfectly in TR. However, when I woke up my BG was140; I did a correction immediately, however, by the time I was eating Bfast, my BG had climbed to 154. I bolused for my meal and added extra insulin to try and catch the spike. I was sleepy and thought nothing about looking carefully at my pump for any explanation. After Bfast, my BG had only come down to 140. I looked at my pump and saw air bubbles in the tubing. I changed my pump ASAP!!! I still had significant IOB so I didnt want to dash to the pool just yet. I waited another 15 minutes and re-tested. My BG had climbed back up to 140, so I figured F-it and dashed off to the pool. I had .3U IOB. when I got to the pool, my sugars were 134. I had only .2U OB and decided to just jump in and go for it. It was a good, strong swim. The time flew by. All I thought of was the future swimmers high and my refuel shakes (mmmm, chocolate! 🤩😋) when I finished my swim, my BG was 102. I ran up the stairs to my locker and bolused .5U, showered, dressed and made a phenomenal dash home. 10 minutes before I got home, I bolused on the sidewalk for my shakes so when I got home I would have to wait less time for that pre-bolus to kick in. Brilliant, I thought 🤣 **in the morning, when I woke up with such high BGs, I thought Sh\*t. I’m gonna just bag it**. My sugars are gonna b too high to swim today. My husband told me I would have a great opportunity to swim off the high BGs and that I should just **GO FOR IT.** I trust my husband 3,000% (and more) so I took his advice, got out of my pity pot, and made the decision to swim. I feel much better about myself for listening to him. It was well worth it. But, as you have probably surmised over the years of reading my threads and my posts, I am very easily frustrated by my numbers. I know this drives Eric crazy. I mean, the whole point of swimming is to enjoy myself (which I always do just as soon as I get into the pool) Its just that I do get caught up in trying to get as close to perfection as possible. **I need to remember that this is a disease, and although I can do the best that I can, it doesnt always work out the best I want it to. But, that doesnt need to limit or to define me.** Anyway, I’ll b back in the pool Wednesday , and I get to try it all over again. Stats: (starting with last night) 8:05pm BG 71 9:45pm BG 71 10:30pm BG 84 went to bed 12am BG 85 2:30am BG 83 7am BG 140 bolused .4U correction (got out of bed) 7:30 BG 154 bolused .3U correction 7:50 BG 150 bolused for Bfast plus additional .1U correction waited 40 minutes till eating, when my BG started to come down and was 120. Then I ate my Bfast ( 1C Cottage Cheese) 11am BG 131 11:15 BG 140 .3U IOB Left for the pool 11:40 BG 134 changed into my suit, cap and goggles and went down to the pool) 12:15pm BG 102 bolused .5U 12:40pm (as I was still walking home) bolused 3.3U (this may have been a silly obsessive mistake as I bolused an extra .1U for my shakes just out of sheer frustration that my BG were over 100 when I finished my swim…but easily corrected later) 1:05pm BG 88, drank my shakes. (super duper delicious 👍 ) hopefully my new infusion and tubing will work properly. I dont see one air bubble and the infusion site was nubile and without any feelings of scar tissue. I often wish I were on the POD, but as the Dexcom never worked for me, I doubted I would get successful results using the POD. I may try it in the future though. Just a thought. signing out, **DM** **PS:** this weekend my husband took me to Paragon Sporting Goods and bought me my first new pair of goggles in 4 years; what a difference it makes to b able to see clearly. 🤣 He also bought me a bunch of new swim caps and flip flops. Hes such a nice guy! --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/getting-back-into-the-pool-after-2-years-away/12729)._