| If your BS are not responding to your Lantus it maybe that you need to take a larger dose. Remenber that Lantus is a background insulin and for it to work continuously for 24 hrs you need enough units. We are all different ,in my case I started on a large dose and worked down. Initially it was 60 units and then split 30 am 30 pm. Then I realised through the forums here that maybe I needed a rapid insulin to beat the highs. I then went to 30 units lantus am and Novorapid based on my carb count, which usually was about 30 units before my evenning meal. The Lantus 30 units seemed to get me through the day ok. What I did learn, when I was recently hospitalised and needed careful BS monotoring, was, that my diet, which I thought was ok , was in fact not ok. and not rotating my injection site was adding to the insulin not being as responsive due to tissue scaring at the injection site.
The solution was to strictly adhere to a the basic prinsiples of diabetic eating as monitored by my doctors in hospital. (eat 6 meals a day 3 being snacks, plus breakfast, lunch and evenning dinner and count those carbs). In addition I started rotating the injection sites.
The results, now a heathier life style and Lantus down to 15 units am and beween 15 and 20 novorapid in the pm.
What I learnt from this experience was that I may not have been as honest about my eating habbits as I should have been and I eventually paid the penalty,
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