[duck]

I went from NPH to Humalog (later Novolog) on a pump, so I never used Lantus. But in theory, since it is a basal insulin that provides about 1/24 of your shot amount every hour (for example, you take 24 units at 8AM, then for the next 24 hours you get 24/24=1 unit Lantus and hour), a low from Lantus should be easy enough to recover from since there shouldn't be *that* much Lantus working...

But that theory is fraught with issues. If you need as much as 1.5 units an hour at some points in a day and less than 1 unit at others, then you will either go high or low depending on how you took your Lantus. My suspicion for you Dan G is that your overnight needs are lower than your waking needs, and at that point your Lantus is working "harder" than you need...

You could try Peanut Butter at bedtime for a slow-release/slow breakdown food that should "prop up" your sugars. Or we can take a look at your shot times/amounts and see if further tweaking can be had.

When I was on NPH, I noticed that if I went low very, very slow, I was **** for a long time afterward. I was "stupid", couldn't reason to save my life. I was weird, I would throw things and act out. Drink a little coke and I was almost instantaneously better.

I have a story for Dan G too: My freshman year in college, some of the football players lived in my dorm. One of the upper-classmen football players was over visiting, and someone said I had diabetes. He asked me if I got violent when low, and I said no, just weird sometimes. He said his freshman year, the starting Senior Tight End was diabetic, and became violent AND paranoid when low. His girlfriend was constantly calling on the offensive and defensive linemen to come over and hold him down to get him to eat/drink something, and dude said it was ALWAYS a mammoth battle. Part of me wishes I could have witnessed that, 300-pound boys trying to forcefeed a 260-pound paranoid diabetic.