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12-28-2006, 05:52 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: South Shore, MA
Posts: 60
| | | Starting Lantus and Humalog tomorrow
After 18 years of using the same insulin (Humalin R & Humalin N)
Tomorrow morning I move forward and start on Humalog and Lantus
I hope it doesn't kill me. Insulin scares the heck out of me sometimes.
I want to change because this roller-coaster is making me crazy.
When my Endo tried to figure how much Lantus I should take ...it seemed like it was a quick judgement on her part. THEN she starts talking about writing me a script for a glucagon kit!!! 
Yeah I think I have a right to be a bit scared.  |
12-28-2006, 05:58 PM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Manassas, in the Old Dominion
Posts: 6,534
| | | If you are on NPH, you probably should have had a glucagon kit anyway.
You'll be fine. NPH is vile stuff (I'd say it less politely but Tony would ban me).
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12-28-2006, 06:02 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: South Shore, MA
Posts: 60
| | | N & R treated me OK for about 15 years.
Now things have changed and it is a constant rollercoaster.
It will be interesting to be able to have meals when I want to - instead of when my insulin tells me to. This changes a lot of habbits for me. |
12-28-2006, 06:18 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rothesay, New Brunswick Canada, eh
Posts: 6,810
| | | See if u can get those basals regulated. I think that's the key to a lot of it.
Best wishes! |
12-28-2006, 06:31 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Southern USA
Posts: 1,500
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by xMenace  See if u can get those basals regulated. I think that's the key to a lot of it.
Best wishes! | I'm on Lantus and Humalog, and yes, getting the basals regulated is KEY!!!! I was never on the insulins you've been on, but others that were very controling. I think you'll find the freedom wonderful! |
12-28-2006, 06:38 PM
| | Junior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: South Shore, MA
Posts: 60
| | It will certainly be different
I always test in the AM then take my insulin then get to work and have to eat snacks then test again at lunch eat a certain amount to balance off what the BS was at...in 2 or 3 hours test again to see if levels were getting too low(and if I would be able to drive home safely) then take some more Humilin R to cover for whatever I was having for dinner. Then test again before bedtime and see if I needed more insulin or a snack....WHEW. too long on that schedule. I hope it will be a good change. THANKS!  |
12-28-2006, 07:55 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Orlando, FL
Posts: 7,835
| | Good luck with the new treatment.  |
12-28-2006, 08:20 PM
| | Junior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: South Shore, MA
Posts: 60
| | | This is the first step towards possibly getting a pump. My Endo wants me to use Lantus first.
Thanks Cyborg |
12-29-2006, 01:23 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Bellevue, WA
Posts: 645
| | | Wow. I was never afraid of Lantus, but I was always afraid of NPH to the point where when I needed to start Lantus and couldn't get it, I didn't go buy some NPH (which you can get without a prescription).
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Correctly dx T1 (LADA) 11/2006
MM 522 w/NovoLog since 1/07
Previously on Actos, Starlix, Metformin ER, Lantus
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12-29-2006, 05:22 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: South Shore, MA
Posts: 60
| | I was just worried about how easily my Endo came up with the amount of Lantus I should be taking. She is certainly well trained and has good credentials. As I injected the amount prescribed this morning, I just hoped that it was not too much for me. 24 hours of low blood sugar does not sound very fun at all. Don't even get me started about the Humalog!!!
I have had some bad days with my old insulins. I want this to go smooth.
I will be testing A LOT!!!  |
12-29-2006, 05:49 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 1,051
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by KMP N & R treated me OK for about 15 years.
Now things have changed and it is a constant rollercoaster.
It will be interesting to be able to have meals when I want to - instead of when my insulin tells me to. This changes a lot of habbits for me. | It'll be an adjustment, but in all probability, you're going to love the increased freedom of MDI compared to the regimen you were on with NPH and R. Eventually, you'll be kicking yourself for not having started sooner. |
12-29-2006, 10:25 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: BC Canada
Posts: 80
| | | I can't imagine switching two types at once ( but on that note, go team switching - I'm on my third day of Levemir instead of NPH as we speak).
Good luck!
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Diagnosed: March 1997, at age 11
Formerly on NPH;
as of December 26, 2006, using Levemir and Humalog |
12-29-2006, 06:54 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: CT
Posts: 4,588
| | | Good luck with the switch... No insulin can correct all the swings and rollercoaster ride that being a Diabetic provides, but hopefully it will improve things for you and make it the ride a little smoother...
__________________ I’ve faced myself
To cross out what I’ve become
Erase myself
And let go of what I’ve done
Put to rest
What you thought of me
Well I cleaned this slate
With the hands
Of uncertainty
So let mercy come
And wash away
What I’ve done
I’ve faced myself
To cross out what I’ve become
Erase myself
And let go of what I’ve done
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12-29-2006, 11:20 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Dallas for now, back to Orlando soon
Posts: 364
| | | If your worried about the amount of Lantus don't worry, it's not as strong as NPH, and if you have to treat a low it doesn't take long to correct at all, sometimes if I'm too low it will only take about 5 minutes to feel better as compared with NPH which could take 1 hour sometimes. You'll do fine just test more often and you'll be okay!! |
12-30-2006, 10:09 AM
| | Junior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: South Shore, MA
Posts: 60
| | Yes I have been testing quite often.
Things went pretty good for the first day. UNTIL the Lantus wore off last night (about 18-20 hours in) So Lantus seems as though it will not last me 24 hours. I am already thinking of switching from a morning shot of Lantus (as my Endo advised) to an evening shot of Lantus - then I would be awake when the Lantus tapers off (around dinner time) and correct it with my dinner time shot of Humalog. I think that would fit my schedule better than splitting the Lantus into 2 shots 12 hours apart.
Thanks for all the well wishing.  |
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