NJL
07-01-2008, 02:24 PM
Last Wednesday I picked up two new vials of Lantus from my pharmacy. That night I injected 28 units (prescribed dosage) at 10 pm the usual time. Immediately following I felt something was wrong. I checked my sugar at 10:05 and I was 156, then @ 10:10 it read 101. At that point i knew something was up and assumed I had accidentally injected Humulog instead of the Lantus. I proceeded to chug oj while keeping track of the amount of servings consumed. 18 servings later I was 65 and out of oj. I rushed to the store down the road to get more juice. Luckily there was a cop and an EMT hanging out in the parking lot of the store. I told them my predicament, the EMT tested me and it read 20. He immediately gave me an IV and pumped full of simple sugar. A minute later I was 201 but appeared to be falling again. So they took me to the ER where they monitored me for about 3 hours.
This whole time I thought I had taken the wrong insulin, which I had never done before, and was extremely upset that I could have been so stupid and almost killed myself.
So the next night I was a bit nervous taking my nightly lantus shot because of the previous nights disaster, but told myself it couldn't happen again. I left myself high (mid-high200's) and took 25 units. Long story short the same thing happend but this time i was prepared and acted quicker. One sandwhich and 14 srvings of oj i lvld off at 75.
Next day I told my Dr at the Joslin Cntr and he said there is no way Lantus should be doing this..I aggreed. He suggested trying half the dose at night and then half 12 hours later. I was fine that night but still crashed even with half the dose and then the next day severly crashed again when I took the second half.
Talked to the Dr again he said he would call in a new prescription and don't use that bottle again. Picked up the new vial of Lantus on Saturday, and everything has been fine since while back on the regular dosage. The pharmacy was calling the FDA and Aventis to let them know.
Sry for the long post but has this happened to anyone else before? Secondly, any opinions on what I should do about this...if anything.....Thx for reading.
This whole time I thought I had taken the wrong insulin, which I had never done before, and was extremely upset that I could have been so stupid and almost killed myself.
So the next night I was a bit nervous taking my nightly lantus shot because of the previous nights disaster, but told myself it couldn't happen again. I left myself high (mid-high200's) and took 25 units. Long story short the same thing happend but this time i was prepared and acted quicker. One sandwhich and 14 srvings of oj i lvld off at 75.
Next day I told my Dr at the Joslin Cntr and he said there is no way Lantus should be doing this..I aggreed. He suggested trying half the dose at night and then half 12 hours later. I was fine that night but still crashed even with half the dose and then the next day severly crashed again when I took the second half.
Talked to the Dr again he said he would call in a new prescription and don't use that bottle again. Picked up the new vial of Lantus on Saturday, and everything has been fine since while back on the regular dosage. The pharmacy was calling the FDA and Aventis to let them know.
Sry for the long post but has this happened to anyone else before? Secondly, any opinions on what I should do about this...if anything.....Thx for reading.