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Originally Posted by Cyborg  If it is an absorbtion problem, wouldn't that just make it worse? Sound like some morning to afternoon basal testing is in order. |
Well, here's the basal test results: (I did each of these several ttimes)
morning test: (from rising to lunch-time) bg drop of 50 points.(once it was 80)
afternoon: (lunch-time to supper time) no more than 20 point drop.
Evening test: (from dinner time til 9pm) no more than 2o point drop.
The first test would indicate that I need less lantus, the other two would indicate that it's dead on.
It's just the crazy way my body seems to deal with lantus. No matter how many units I take my bg drops slowly for 4 hours from the time of injection, then drops quite drastically in the 4rth hour. I only take 7 units at night and when i did the over-night basal tests I found it doing the same thing...it will drop 50-80 points if I haven't eaten anything. Yet dropping the dose to even 6 units had me waking up high every morning.
So, I've been having a small snack, which keeps the drop within a 30-40 point range, which I can live with.
It's just this morning thing....
My bs rises in the am after I get up usually around 30 points. If it weren't for that I'd go hypo after the am lantus shot even on the days I don't eat.
