Help! need advice- Missed Basal

[howdysf]

Hey all,

I take 19 units of Lantus everyday @ 7:30 and last night I forgot to take it, I just realized this morning.. what do you guys usually do? Just wait and take it at normal time tonight, or should I take half now? Just a little now?...

Any advice is appreciated.

Thx:confused:

[JediSkipdogg]

I would take none now and just test your BG every 1-2 hours and inject a little of the fast acting as needed. You will be stacking quite a bit, but just inject for maybe half of what you think you need each time to keep the BG down. Then take the Lantus as normal tonight.

The problem if you take it now is that it will then make you low when you take your normal dose from having to doses of it on top of each other. So best to forget it and just use fast acting and watch more.

[howdysf]

Thanks for the advice Jedi...

[cheryl]

He gave you really good advice, I wish I would of done things like that.......

What I have done is take my dose then every day take my dose two hours earlier till i hit my mark to when I usually took so for instance see I used to take it between 10 and 11 pm.....so if I woke up and said woops at 5 or 6 in the morning or even later lol....I'd take it so then if I took at at 6am then I would take it at 4am then the next day 2am and you get what I am saying, I usually did ok with this, and I was too nervous to just use my fast acting back then, before I understood how pumping worked and all that I was a bit clueless if I did that now and was on mdi, on lantus, I probably would do what Jedi suggested....

Cheryl

[Alice]

I do something similar when planning an overseas trip. I skip a regular dose of Lantus...then use Humalog/meter to try to keep numbers reasonable. Then when in new time zone, I get back on my regular schedule. That was one reason I started taking Lantus in the morning (when I was on one dose per 24 hours)...it was easier to remember in the morning.