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04-28-2008, 06:32 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Midwest, USA
Posts: 12
| | | I take 36 units of lantus at dinner, and take novolog at breakfast, lunch and dinner.
some of you split lantus between 2 shots (breakfast, bed) and some of you take it only in the morning....do you have better control this way? |
04-28-2008, 06:38 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rothesay, New Brunswick Canada, eh
Posts: 5,562
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Originally Posted by garnett_21  some of you take it only in the morning....do you have better control this way? | It does make sense when you consider it can run out before 24 hours. It also makes you less dependant on one very important shot getting good absorption. I've had those days where it didn't seem to work at all. I have a fair amount of scar tissue.
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04-28-2008, 06:44 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Midwest, USA
Posts: 12
| | | xmenace - someone said they split it so they did 10 units in the morn and the rest at bed....is it better to do that, or do half and half? |
04-28-2008, 07:43 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Pittsburgh
Posts: 84
| | | 10 units at night since dx a year and a half ago.
__________________  Diagnosed 1.5 10/20/06
Pittsburgh,PA.
Lantus 10 units PM
Novolog to scale and 2 units at dinner
A1C 10/23/2006 14.2
A1c 03/23/2007 6.3
A1c 02/25/08 6.1
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04-29-2008, 03:40 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: UK
Posts: 355
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Originally Posted by garnett_21 xmenace - someone said they split it so they did 10 units in the morn and the rest at bed....is it better to do that, or do half and half? | Well I personally prefer not to do an extra injection  if you split it you end up with two smaller holes instead of one big hole. Its swings and roundabouts. It depends how much the hole in your Lantus coverage is affecting you, are you getting rapid swings around the time you do your injection? I know I get spikes from it after injecting and eating a meal in the evening.
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A1c 6.1 - 29th of Novemember 2007 
A1c 8.1 - 23rd of May 2007 
Diagnosed 27th of August 2006
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04-29-2008, 08:38 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Midwest, USA
Posts: 12
| | | shiftzor - if it keeps me in better control, I don't mind doing an extra injection....don't remember not doing it....18 years and counting!
currently, I'm running higher than I want to....who isnt? lol but, I take lantus at dinner (6 PM) and if I don't eat enough at bed if my BG is good levels, I crash....if I'm 250-300 at bed, and I have 2 carbs minimum, I start my day around 100....otherwise I wake up with a low....but my morning BG is usually fine....my lunch is usually mid 100's....dinner tends to be higher....and bed is higher too....any suggestions?? I may bring this up with my doctor when I go next week |
04-29-2008, 08:42 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Auckland
Posts: 179
| | | I take my lantus as:
10u - am
14u - pm
the reason is I tend to rise during the course of the day and overnight so the extra lantus in the evening helps keep that in check.. |
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