My blood sugars are insane

Seriously. Blood sugar is totally out of control and obeying no rules nor logic. My day went something like this:

I tested at 16.7 (300 mg/dl) for some unknown reason before bed last night. I decided to leave it and see what happened. Woke up at 2:00 in the morning to test and check it out and was still 16.8 (302 mg/dl). So I did a correction and went back to sleep.

This morning I woke up feeling like high-crap and got a lovely 13.9 (250 mg/dl) on the meter. Just such a great feeling, being high all night. I realize I've been wearing my infusion site for about five days, which is the probable reason for it apparently deciding to give out, so I changed sites. I corrected (with the old site) and ate breakfast and headed to work.

At work I tested before working with a student (about an hour and a half after breakfast) and got 7.1 (128 mg/dl). In range, but considering I'd been so high before eating I didn't like how much that had dropped in less than two hours. I ate two glucose tablets to make sure I didn't go low and then went and taught.

The student was uncooperative and did not want to work (she even told me so). So perhaps that stressed me out a wee bit. Then I went and had lunch. I didn't test before lunch but all I had was half a grilled-cheese sandwich and some chicken. Pretty standard stuff, so I bolused accordingly.

Two hours later I figure I should test, and get a 16.6 (299 mg/dl). I correct and then go out with my mom shopping. Takes about an hour. When I get home I'm feeling kind of nauseous so figure I should test for ketones and test the blood sugar. Ketones come out at small. I'm all prepared to change the set ... and then test. Blood sugar is 5.3 (95 mg/dl). I seriously do not believe it. It just makes no sense (though, granted the ketones were urine strips so those are delayed, but still!). I decide to wait half an hour and recheck.

Half an hour later I'm 2.8 (50 mg/dl). I eat glucoset tablets and wait fifteen minutes. Fifteen minutes later I'm 3.2 (58 mg/dl). I eat one or two more tabs and then start talking on MSN.

Half an hour later I decide to have dinner. Test expecting to finally, just maybe, possibly, be normal. I'm 12.1 (218 mg/dl). I do not believe I could have skyrocketed so much in just half an hour so recheck and get the same. I eat dinner and take a meal and correction bolus.

And now ... now. Now, an hour after dinner, I test at 5.9 (106 mg/dl), which is seemingly good but not good so soon after eating when insulin hasn't peaked. I decide not to eat and to wait. I wait twenty minutes and test again. This time I'm 7.1 (128 mg/dl). I don't know what to do. I'm scared to eat and I'm scared to not eat! I am about ready to throw the meter (or meters, because I am using multiple ones when double-checking) out the window.

I broke out the control solution tonight and, according to that, all three meters are accurate. So it appears my blood sugar is just deciding to make rapid, nonsensical shifts in direction at an alarming rate.

I may chuck this insulin and get new stuff. I'm beginning to believe the stuff in the vials is crap compared to the cartridges (penfills), because I do vaguely recall this happening the last time I got a vial.

I also am skipping breakfast, and likely lunch, tomorrow. I really don't know what is up but I can't live with my blood sugar being so unpredictable. This is worse than what it was doing when I was on shots! I really need to get back to square one and make sure my basals are correct and go from there. My blood sugars have just been insane for the past three days (they have all pretty much been like this, though not as extreme) and I have had enough.