[Hammer]

I'm looking at my chart to see what the readings are, and every time I increase the Lantus,(I take it every night at 10pm) the next morning when I do a fasting BG reading, it's dropped from the day before. However using the same dose that evening, the next day's BG readings have gone back up again. It's as if the initial increase of Lantus doesn't affect the body's resistance at first, hence the drop in BG reading, but after a day, it has adjusted itself and the BG numbers rise.

Also, I don't take Metformin. I tried, but my stomach can't handle it. I've tried various forms of Metformin with the same result. I've tried Amaryl and Prandin and they bother my stomach also. I've even tried cutting a 500mg metformin tablet in half and taking one half after breakfast and one half after dinner, but it still bothered my stomach. It seems that anything I take orally bothers my stomach, so I shy away from them. That's why I'm on Byetta....it's not oral.

Exercise....not really. I was trying to walk everyday, but my back just won't let me. I have plenty of energy and stamina to do most any type of exercise, but my back prevents me from doing anything. As much as I enjoy exercising, it gets to be a choice between trying to exercise and being in pain, or not exercising. The not exercising is winning out. When you know that you're about to do something that hurts you and makes it difficult to stand up, much less walk, you begin to avoid it. I've been thinking about maybe getting a bike (either a regular bike or a stationary bike), but for now, I want to see what my company is going to do with me....relocate me to another state is the most likely thing, and if they do that, I'd have no way to get a bike there, so I'm waiting for them to make a decision.

Other than a bike, there isn't any exercise that you can do that doesn't put a strain on your back that would also burn off calories.....the type of exercise you need to do to affect insulin resistance.

My before bed numbers are just a little bit lower than my morning numbers. For example, when I increased the Lantus to
64 units, my morning BG was 128. My before bed BG was 120. Moving up and comparing my morning numbers from 64 units, which was 128, to 70 units which is 120, it only dropped 8 points with 6 more units. Since I've only been on 70 units for one day, I'll know better tomorrow if it's still 120 or if it's gone back up again.

It gets discouraging because when I increase the Lantus, the next mornings readings have dropped and I get encouraged by it, only to have it rise again the next day. When I increased the Lantus to 52 units, the next morning reading was 104....down from 121 the day before. The next morning, my BG numbers were 117, so I increased the Lantus to 54 units and the next morning was 123. I increased it again to 56 units, and the next morning's reading was 115. I decided to go up 4 units, which I've never done, and taking 60 units, my next morning reading was 134. The day after that, still on 60 units, it was 133. My before bed numbers were 120.

I don't usually eat anything after dinner. If I eat dinner at 6pm, I may not go to bed till 3am the next morning, so taking a fasting reading before bed gives me a more accurate fasting BG than if I test when I get up, since there's no Dawn Phenomenon to figure into the reading. I figure that no matter what my liver does during the night and how it will affect my morning numbers, my before bed numbers aren't going to be affected that much by anything (unless I eat something), so that number is the most accurate.