I did exactly this yesterday for only the 2nd time. I took 1.5 u of NovoRapid and 1.5 u of Regular, and then took 1.5 u of Regular every 2-3 hours until I got home. Had remarkably stable blood sugars!
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Love hearing that this morning. 
What is the doctor’s rationale? Just to stay in practice in case you need to switch to MDI in a hurry?
Okay. Free as a bird… I’m in for like 89 injections today, but so far so good. 
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And a quick question for any other pumpers… I’d like to carry my pump around with me. If I were to set up a new basal pattern, set it at as close to zero as possible and then remove the reservoir, do you think this would have any kind of negative effect on the pump?? I think it’s just going to beep every 15 minutes if I leave it in suspend. My backup plan is to remove the reservoir and just deal with the beeping, but I can’t think straight enough to work through any possible consequences of a long suspend or the removal of the reservoir… any thoughts?
Eric, I’m gonna need to find a way to do doses smaller than a unit. Not today. But soon.
I’m so excited for you Nicky 
I’m also excited to read about how it goes for you.
Is that because of your cgm?
For me, the whole benefit of MDI is that you can be free as a bird!! When I went off the pump, it was for a few different reasons (sites were becoming major problems), but honestly, I just hated having this bulky device attached to me all the time. I couldn’t stand it anymore.
If you’re keeping it around for the cgm, maybe you could just keep it in your purse or tape it to your phone or something similar. That way you can still feel the freedom of not having a pump, but you’ll probably be near your phone often enough that the cgm should still work pretty well.
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I have posts on 1/2 unit pens. Somewhere on FUD.
You can get a non-disposable Humalog pen, called Luxura HD. HD stands for half-unit dosing.
And you can also get a Humalog KwikPen Junior. That is their disposable version with half unit dosing. You have to specify KwikPen JUNIOR to get their 1/2 unit one.
The disposable KwikPen Junior is by Lilly, so it’s Humalog. It is smaller than any of the NovoLog pens. That’s really your best bet!
Lilly KwikPen Junior. 
Yes @Beacher, that is exactly their rationale. They want you to switch back and forth so if your pump breaks you remember what to do. At first I thought this was stupid overkill, and that my son is smart enough to figure it out when it happens. But after watching my son actually do it, then prefer it for a while, then switch back to the pump after a month, encountering small issues at each step, I really think everyone should do this every X years (2-3?) even if only for a week or so.
That may be the biggest (worst) example of a run-on sentence I have written here.
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In the past 10 days, I have had to pretend to be a non-diabetic 3 different times. It’s become totally natural to take some Levemir, and then peel off the Dexcom and pod in the parking lot before going in for my appointments.
My wife was a party to it one time. She had the BG meter in her purse and put a strip in while it was still in the purse. I lanced my finger with a lancet I had hidden in my palm and just reached my bloody finger over to the purse and she touched it to the meter without anyone seeing it.
I cut my face shaving that morning, just a little bit, so I would have a valid reason for the blood drops on my t-shirt and finger, in case anyone asked about it (nobody did).
Anyway, good skills to maintain.
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I will probably regret it, but what type of situations would necessitate you having to pretend? Love the cover story of shaving.
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Oh, what I would do to be inside your head for a day. Just a day though… I have a feeling it’s hardcore.
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I will have to post about this sometime in the lounge where prying eyes won’t see it.
But let’s just say it has to do with a research study in which diabetics would not be allowed to participate. Because after all, diabetics can’t possibly perform safely in a test where you are supposed to run to exhaustion.
And what makes it particularly troubling for the researchers is when the person refuses to hit the stop button, and never reaches what the researchers think is “exhaustion”.
Maybe it’s just because the person is one of the oldest people in the study. And young athletes who have not had to deal with diabetes all of their lives have a completely different perspective on when it is okay to “give up” and “quit” because their body hurts.
Anyway, all of that can be done on Levemir, no pump, no CGM, and only testing BG when nobody can see it. And cutting yourself when shaving.
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And that is EXACTLY what I’m wearing today, too… 
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Yes. You are right. This is the idea. Sometimes I do stupid things and then get even stupider ideas about how to streamline the originally stupid things, and that is pretty much what I’m doing now… just trying to get myself to the other side where there’s freedom and fun. 
this is already fun (not sure what that says about me)… and free as a bird in COMPARISON.
Look— none of it is on me now… now I just carry it in loose.
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@Nickyghaleb
Did you do 11 units this morning? How’s that working out so far?
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So my pump, in hearing of my departure, sent me off with a one hour suspend as a departing gift. Wise guy. So it took some wrestling this morning to get my numbers to settle down… and hitting pause on my coffee 
, but I got it. I’ve food shopped, I’ve been to PT, and I’ve done a 40 minute jump… and not too bad.
I’ve also done 6 shots already and haven’t eaten any carbs… I think I’m going to skip eating today and see if that doesn’t help. 
My numbers DO want to push up, and I keep seeing that high calibration factor which just means I’m not really DROPPING. I assume this is something I could tweak the 11 units to fix??
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You could bump it up, yes.
Remember, I said we are going with safe conservative numbers to keep you from plummeting. Just getting ya going.
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And I appreciate that. A touch high is a lot more comfortable than getting buried.
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Under too much insulin… bad choice of words. Though it works either way.
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