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Originally Posted by grace girl  You said you've stopped your split dose experiment, but I'm curious, were you splitting it 50/50? That doesn't work for everyone. My total dose is 24 units. I take 16 in the am and 8 at night...I had to do it this way to avoid night-time hypos. Just something for you to consider if you decide to try it again. |
Yeah, I stopped. I am at total 18/20 for 24 hours and was doing 12/8 for breakfast/bedtime. But it was there that I had the awful low in the am that took forever to defeat, and then the incident at 2AM which was scary. Without the split, I have had zero problems for a couple years - lows when I wake as you say. My usual waking is at 60 - which really is low, but I have no problems functioning there, then I eat and things go up. Oatmeal with a dab of molasses and 4 units for bkfst, pbj for lunch+kefer and 10 units which gets me to 350 or so. Dinner is complex carbs and little protein and 8 units, but the lantus kinda brings that all down to 50 by morning.
Perhaps I will do the split again soon, but I'm freaked for now. I know what has worked, and will calm down for the time being. Perhaps I had some residuals that hung around and blossomed under the split. Does that ever happen with insulin? I mean, there are times when I take gobs of units, and eat very little, and nuthin' happens - where does the stuff go? It must go someplace. Does it hibernate for future blossom?
Duck - thanks for the story on holding the lightweight guy down. Interesting. Perhaps each of us is strong when low and paranoid. How do I defeat the paranoid? Just too weird. And the basal baseline testing will happen soon for me. I wanna know what lunch is doing to get me so high. I'm not like Bethany and dive low, I just don't have any effectiveness at my lunch experience and get to 350 for dinner. Then I gotta defeat that with something, plus eat dinner. Oh, well, I play with this/that and figure things out eventually.
The give/take and experience exposed here should be recommended reading as part of any doctor treating diabetes worth his MD. Books mean squat in the applied world of anything.
