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Yesterday afternoon and last night something went awry with my blood sugar, raising mysterious questions worthy of Lost.

My blood sugar was inexplicably high before dinner, and despite a correction dose and a dinner not unusually high in carbs — a chicken and grilled vegetable burrito, sin arroz y sin frijoles — it soared up to 351 before 10 o’clock, when I switched up my relatively new infusion set and took a correction by syringe. Then I started to fall down to 52, where I found myself when I woke up in a totally befuddled state around 1 am. It was one of those deep lows, where you feel like you just have to keep eating, but you can’t really taste what you’re shoveling in your mouth. I woke up again around 6, feeling gross and having rebounded back to 290, despite a small bolus that I took with the food at 1. I find that wrenching up and down like that tends to leave me feeling dizzy for about a day.

What was the problem? Fluctuations in electromagnetic fields? A disconnect in time? I have no idea. My top theory right now is different receptivities to insulin when the pump is installed in different areas of the body.