Lilituc...

[Funnygrl]

How's the Lantus going?

[lilituc]

Well, it's only been a day and a half so I think it's too early to really see the effects yet. I certainly haven't had any lows, though.

So far, it burns and the injection site swells up after I give it, but it goes down within a couple hours.

[lilituc]

Ok, after longer on the Lantus, I *am* having a problem with it. Specifically, it's lasting like 27 hours for me. Since I'm on a 5 unit dose, this means that during the overlap I'm dangerously close to my total basal needs. I discovered this by having lows during and after dinner (which never happened before), and the night I went to the store and walked around during that time period, I was 50-something for about an hour. Yes, I was shoveling carbs into my mouth.

Now, I was trying to stick it out since I was hoping to get my pump soon and I didn't want the setting to be really complicated just because the Lantus was working differently for me. But I just learned Monday that the training was further off than I thought - the 27th. So Monday night I started taking 4 units of Lantus and so far I seem to be doing much better. I haven't tried to exercising or anything during the overlap yet, though.

[Keezheekoni]

Where are you going for training? Is it one of the Medtronic classes?

[lilituc]

Where are you going for training? Is it one of the Medtronic classes?

My (new) endo's office has everyone go through Joslin, so I'll be doing the training there.