Twice Daily Levemir Dosages

[seanmarr]

If you are a:
* Type 1 Diabetic
* Use Levemir as a twice daily basal insulin

Could you please post your doses, injection site, times you take these doses and any other information you think may be useful to this thread. This would help me a lot in just knowing what other people do.

Cheers.

[liz32]

not t1 but do split levemir dose. I do 20 units at night and 14 units day....about 8pm and 8am. If i get up earlier I take it right away to help with dp.
Liz

[Gangrel]

I'm T1, and take a split dose.

Currently, I take 21u at 7am, and 19u at 9pm. But I'm playing around a bit because I'm having issues waking up too high, and having problems with pre-dinner readings, but I may have it solved now........

[Injecto]

Up until two weeks ago today I was doing this:

8 Units at 12PM
5 Units at 10PM

The image below shows roughly how the insulin acted and lasted in my body as per my individual experience.

[Geoff]

I am type 1 and have been using Levimir for the last six weeks, I was on Lantus for eighteen months before that.

I started using the same total amount of Levimir as Lantus, 13units, but splitting it 50/50 at 22:15hr/10:15hr. I found that I was getting good cover in the morning/afternoon with this regimen, but running out by late evening 19-20:00hr. I read that a lot of people coming from Lantus to Levimir, needed 12-15% more insulin for the same cover. So I increased my dosage to 15 units, but was having worse control, so I started reducing my night time dosage, and increasing my day time dosage over a three week period. I now have near perfect control, with my fasting bs between 5.0 mmol/lt (90) and 5.6 mmol/lt (100.8) and my total daily av is at present showing 5.5 mmol/lt over the last 30 days.

[seanmarr]

OK I diagnose myself as unusual. Thanks for your posts :-)

[seanmarr]

BTW, my sig needs changing. I'm now on 15 units at 9am and 12 units at 9pm - mostly my own doing and choosing. I switched from doing 40u Lantus on 20 January, to 15/15, moved up to 20/20 on 24th, moved down to 18/18 on 28th, then 15/15 during the first week of feb and over the past few days moved to 15/12.

[Gary_W]

Good for you. Are you feeling any better yet?

Also, this thread is quite interesting reading, especially the stuff about 'ballpark' insulin dose for your height and weight etc.

http://www.diabetesforums.com/forum/diabetes/16532-need-someone-with-experience.html

Gary

[Mick]

I take 12.5u Levemir at 10:30pm and 6u when i get up in the morning, usually 7am, but that depends on if it's the weekend or not. This was after many years on lantus one a day, and having various and continuing control issues. Altho control continues to be a constant juggling struggle, that's the nature of this disease. After 41 years, I'm in as good a shape as one could expect--and as good as i pretty much have ever been, more or less.

Michael
dx'ed 1966

[Tyler]

16 units at 9am
11 units at 9pm

[June91]

What is the exact duration of Levemir based on your experiences - 18, 20 or 24 hours? I am trying to get my basal right and getting very very frustrated... :(

Injecto's excel spreadsheet is an excellent manual tool to determine overlapping and I still can't get it right. My mind is not well equipped to deal with empirical data and numbers - give me Scrabble any time though :D. If anyone can help me match my bg trends with Levemir, please pm me, I'd appreciate it.

[spring]

When I started on it, I tried one shot a day just to see, and it lasted me almost exactly 20 hours.

Right now I take 16 units AM, 8 units PM
(at 8am, and midnight:when I wake up and go to bed. I've managed to shift it around by an hour or so with no major issues.. say midnight and 9am or 1am and 7am)

[Geoff]

I am now using 11 units at 23:00, and 3 units at 11:00am, For me the max is 18hrs duration to get good control

[ant hill]

If you are a:
* Type 1 Diabetic
* Use Levemir as a twice daily basal insulin

Could you please post your doses, injection site, times you take these doses and any other information you think may be useful to this thread. This would help me a lot in just knowing what other people do.

Cheers.
I concider myself to be on heavy doses and try to keep BG's to an acceptable level. So my doses are.

8:00AM i have 66U of novomix30 and 12 hours later i have 44U of lantus and the short acting i use the novo rapid so according to the situation like if i am high then have say 30U and wait 20 minuets. :)

[xMenace]

Have any of you had success profiling your basals: skip a meal and test hourly with an objective of flat bgs? I know Gangrel tried it. My reading suggests gaps may exist that can be covered with a blast of x-alog.

[June91]

To avoid the morning gap which is really bad for my dp, I figured (with a little help from my friends) that I'd have to take Levemir at 3 am :eek: which does not go well with my continued struggle to maintain reasonably good control without major adjustments in my daily schedule.

[Gangrel]

Have any of you had success profiling your basals: skip a meal and test hourly with an objective of flat bgs? I know Gangrel tried it. My reading suggests gaps may exist that can be covered with a blast of x-alog.

i have done tests once in awhile..... Like June, I think i have a morning gap that I'm trying to get a handle on, but things have been so crazy for me this week I haven't even bothered.

Working 20 hours a day kills the BS levels, lol.

I have never tried taking Levemir once a day, but I may..... I mean, heck, i already feel like an experiment, what's one more? ;)

[Scarlett]

just wondering why and what the difference is between Lantus and Levemir-
I've been on Lantus for about 2 years now-Dx'd @ age 10-44 yrs. young now-5'5"- 133 or so lbs. >130 <135(fluctuate)-been on several types of insulin and the pump-
why would I change insulin and have to take more of it-sounds like a pharmaceutical ploy (I like to see the same cereal on the shelf manufactured by 12 different companies-sales are sales are sales!!! money makes the world go around!) if there's no significant difference in control

[June91]

just wondering why and what the difference is between Lantus and Levemir-
I've been on Lantus for about 2 years now-Dx'd @ age 10-44 yrs. young now-5'5"- 133 or so lbs. >130 <135(fluctuate)-been on several types of insulin and the pump-
why would I change insulin and have to take more of it-sounds like a pharmaceutical ploy (I like to see the same cereal on the shelf manufactured by 12 different companies-sales are sales are sales!!! money makes the world go around!) if there's no significant difference in control

You can read about personal experiences on this forum that have nothing to do with pharmaceutical marketing. Try searching for "Levemir" or "Lantus" in thread titles.

Lantus, for example, had some really bad side effects for me. I was constantly hungry and put on a lot of weight in a very short time. I have been on Levemir for the past month and apart from struggling with timing haven't seen any side effects yet.

[sparrow1]

just wondering why and what the difference is between Lantus and Levemir-

According to the research, Levemir is more weight-sparing. Some have even lost weight with Levemir.

I am currently taking 12 units a night and 18 in a.m. But it's early days and I am still experimenting.