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Old 05-11-2008, 09:05 AM
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Eddy Eddy is online now
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I am a: Type 1
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Kansas, US
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I am currently taking a grand total of 9.08U per day in basal.
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As you can see, the 7-fold increase in early hours to dawn was no fun on Lantus. If you do the maths on 14u of Lantus, that equates to around 0.58u per hour if you take it as being genuinely flat. Of course it doesn't work like that but you can see how this gave problems.
No wonder you were having such a rough time with Lantus. What puzzles me is how you went from being a flatliner to your current basal pattern. What causes such changes? (Or is this just another case of "stuff happens"?)
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DXed 2007/04 = advanced-stage DKA, A1c of 12.9%, and BMI of 21.3
post-DX A1c = 5.4% @ 2008/07; 5.2% @ 2008/04; 5.3% @ 2007/12; 5.3% @ 2007/08
c-peptide = 0.0% @ 2008/07
current BMI = 26.0 (86kg on 182cm); want to get back to 23-24
basal = 2U human N @ 0630, 5U detemir @ 0630, 11U detemir @ 1200, 17U detemir @ 2030
bolus = 1:15 I:C ratio; varying mix of aspart, human R, human N

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