Quote:
Originally Posted by Gary_W  The 'keep upping the lantus until your morning BG's are normal' is standard advice from docotors who fail to back it up with two other important questions 
1. What is your BG before you go to bed?
2. Are you sure you aren't going hypo in the night? |
I have been thinking about the DP that I have read about from BlueSky and now drummingfool. Interesting thing, DP.
I wonder if the lantus in the evening is becoming more and more of a problem for us. I quit doing evening lantus a couple years ago. I take lantus in the morning and am usually fine the next morning - I split sites for my 22 units lantus. I am thinking that perhaps the body mechanism is a bit lantus resistant and "seems" to need more and more lantus. Whereas, perhaps you can wean the body off lantus resistance by lowering the dose and switching to morning dose - a suggestion if that....
These are my suspicions - no experience to back them up, except that I quit taking lantus at night. My reasoning is that I am doing nothing from 10 PM to 7 AM and thus need no real sugar processing, therefore no need for lantus - give the body an insulin rest for a short period each day, as it is said that lantus is 20 hours duration or so.
Another lantus experience I have from time to time - always logical and generally miscalculation by me - the low that lantus produces is wicked. It is wicked loooong, sneaky, and quite resistant to sugar feeding, it seems to me. I don't like lantus low at all.
