Hi Ali
Don't worry as I said above Levemir is a fab insulin, and has turned my control right around .Im in touch with a few others that have swapped and exactly the same thing has happened to them with the switch...And we were all experiencing the same problems on Lantus..WEIRD, but Levemir which as you say in a analouge is fine.
Having said that there will be thousands of people who are on Lantus and who get on with it just fine, you tend only to look into things and report on them when there IS a problem. There does seem to be much more anecdotal stories "out there" with Lantus. To be perfectly honest if I had of had good control on it the stories of Cancer ect would not have stopped me using it...as EVERYTHING is linked carcinogenic :roll: these days....and let's face it ,it's either the big C which gets you when your time is due..or the old ticker gives up, why spend life worrying...
But feeling terrible on a daily basis, crashing Hypo's ,bad night time Hypo's all the time was something Lantus caused for me, so it had to go.
Sanobar , you will find you will probably be absolutely fine on it, as Pheonix says she really got on with it. I was on it for over ten years and for a good proportion of that time I was OK on it. Not as good as now but it was manageable in the early years on it. I just thought that was how Type 1 Diabetes progresses and was heading down hill on it...and fast towards the end. This is what brought me onto the net looking for alternatives..up until then Diabetes never really interested me, I mean it's dull enough living with it!
I'm glad I did though, and I am thankful for people like Jus who tell their experiences on things ,as with everyone else that has written their experiences good or bad with an insulin. Take from things what you will as and when you need them, but don't go looking for problems that aren't there.
It is good there are alternatives, and it's important we know of them IF we need them.