[Lizzie G]

Originally Posted by ant hill

Hi Lizzie , It will be good if our insulin would act at the time that we eat but the onset of insulin is not as fast that we would like.
Hi Pete

Im hopeless on working the multiquote thing so please excuse lack of appropriate font changes and punctuation!

Are you just having the one Lantus shot to cover 24 hours?

Yes - im doing one lantus at around 8pm (14units). Iv not really expereinced any problems with this like some mention and actually find that im naturally lower in the late afternoon...i do get a natural pick up around 6ish but it fits in nicely with when i exercise normally....do you have problems yourself with it lasting out the 24?


Liz, I see that the cheese is getting the BG's a workout and the bagel is also the BG mover too. Buy the way seems to be very nice MMMmmm I think to have that too for lunch.
Have you tried the dual bolus like half the dose and split it an hour from each other. I get to do that with pizza as the base that uses pure white dough and that keeps me high for quite a while.
Now you got me thinking of getting some bagels now. YUM!!!

i do a dual bolus with a big meal like pizza sometimes, mainly due to the whole restaurant factor - its always guesswork and its more down to caution....if im in a restaurant eating pizza chances are i'll have a couple of glasses of wine which bring me down, but i havent tried 'at home'. today im having low GI oatcakes (dont know if you know oatcakes but they're not a cake they are a biscuit!) and i have bolused a half hour before, at which time i was at 5.0 (90) and just about to eat and experiment! so, if i were planning to eat something bagel based and for arguments sake i knew i needed 5 units to cover it. if my pre meal BG was say 5.6, would it be an idea to take say 2 units 45 mins before and 3 with the food?

Also, What was your fasting BG, If it's high then bolus and wait half an hour and the low BG and have your bolus and eat immediately.

fasting BG this morning was 6.3 (113) which was same as when i went to bed (maybe a little higher than some might like but i tend to eat late at night so sometimes hard to tell whether im still going down from novo!)