As trustworthy as the insulin pump is, sometimes things can go wrong with it. The “straw looking” port that is actually inside your body may become bent when you first inject the new site into your body. This causes no insulin to enter into your body making your blood sugar go up high. When this happens the most important thing to do is NOT TO PANIC!!!
Usually to test to see if your pump is working when you just changed the site, you should eat something, bolus for what you just ate, and then test your blood sugar in an hour to see if your blood sugar is at a normal range, meaning the pump is working. But sometimes after you wait the hour and test your blood sugar, it may be something high like 397, when it was 183 before you ate to test if the new pump site was working. This happens sometimes when your blood sugar randomly goes up without explanation. The best thing to do is to correct for that new high sugar, wait 45 minutes to test your blood sugar again, and then see if it went down. Usually your blood sugar will go down by then.
If it doesn’t, that means that you have to change your pump site and do the test all over again. I know some diabetics who had this happen to them, and instead of correcting for the high blood sugar, they just quickly change the pump again. You normally should wait to see because then you don’t waste extra insulin and get rid of a pump site that is working even though you don’t think it is. But most of the time the insulin pump is working. Some causes that leave your blood sugar up high are due to the food that you ate or your emotional state.
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