[moorejames]

Originally Posted by retired60

I actually reduced the glucaphage that the doc had me taking from 2500mg daily to 1000mg daily by starting Lantus. For the last three years I have been able to get my a1c just about anywhere I would like it with out any problems.

That's great. I added byetta and dropped my metformin dose down a bit. Lot's less problems with the metformin side effects now.

The metformin side effects seem to be offset by the byetta side effects Without going into details, I seem to have found a happy, regular medium...

[CountYourselfIn]

Originally Posted by fgummett

The big caveat with insulin -- apart from the risks, of which I am sure you are already aware -- is that it gives you the ability to eat as much as you like, cover it with insulin and still have great BG levels... a sure-fire recipe for weight gain

*eye twitches*

Yep.

[CountYourselfIn]

Originally Posted by rdfrdf

My 3-year old loves saying "dia-bee-tees" and tells everyone he has it. He says my Glucerna cereal and other sugar-free foods taste like diabetes. The other day he said his Kung-fu Panda toy had diabetes, and now he calls him Diabetes Panda. Sometimes it almost feels like a good thing...

I didn't think about the Metformin that way(about switching up the doses). I'll go back to taking what I'm supposed to at night. I'm just so paranoid about dying in my sleep. I am a Dawner, however, so that's probably not anything to worry about. What does it feel like to wake up in the middle of the night LOW?

That's just about the funniest thing I've ever read on here.

Waking up low = cold sweat, instantly alert, going what's going on.. what happened.. ok my BG is low, sugar now. Then you relax and go back to bed.

Once you tweak your insulin levels you figure out what you need to stay in the acceptable range, while avoiding going hypo overnight.

All this stuff, this micromanagement, becomes second nature after a while. All these dumb lil things like night-hypo's are temporary things.