Picked up samples of Levemir from the endo's office today. Won't bore you with my Lantus saga--short version: the first six weeks I was really close to having the basal under control, but out of six vials/cartridges of Lantus, 3 lost potency in the third week, 2 didn't last two days and 1 seemed to peter out after a week. It was maddening. I've come to the conclusion that Lantus is the J. Lo of insulin--total diva!
Anyway, Levemir comes in a Flexpen like Novolog--except with a green push button instead of orange. I think Insulin makers need to make the difference between long acting and rapid acting insulins more obvious to insulin takers!
Figuring out what to dose was tricky. I decided to start at 10 units total (8 was my number on Lantus) and split it 6/4 am vs. pm. I injected at 9 am and at 1:30 pm (before lunch) I was 183. Not good, but not too bad either. Before dinner I was 94. Perfect! I'll update as I go along but I'm very optimistic about this. I just feel better right now. Hopefully it will last. The CDE keeps pushing the pump. Bless her heart she actually wore it for a weekend infusing saline to see how it felt.
