robert72
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Keep us posted. Are you using a Libre at the moment?Thanks Robert. 9u at 10pm to start with then!
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Keep us posted. Are you using a Libre at the moment?Thanks Robert. 9u at 10pm to start with then!
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Keep us posted. Are you using a Libre at the moment?
So, today I went back for my 3 month review - what a different experience than the December one! I was back at my local hospital instead of the major city one I visited in December - same consultant but a much more positive experience all round. I have been on Insuman basal evening and Levemir morning for 3 months now and whereas my control was shot to pieces and my HbA1c had risen to 5.9%, it is now back to 5.5% and the huge swings from high to low are greatly reduced. My fasting levels still tend to be a little unpredictable - 5.5, 11.2 and 4.8 in the last three days. So, I start on Tressiba this evening!!! I think I need some advice from @robert72 and @drahawkins_1973 on how to phase in such a long-acting insulin when I've already had 7 units Levemir this morning!
Hey smidge thats great news!!! Welcome to the Tresiba club
I started off slightly lower dose of tresiba vs levemir but in actual fact after a bit of tweaking I've ended up taking the same amount. As Robert suggests though maybe start off around 9u to be on the safe side.
Also I found that taking the tresiba in the morning works better for me rather than in the evening when I used to take my levemir....dont know why and dont have an explanation. I was holding perfectly steady overnight but dropping a bit mid afternoon. Now I've change the timings I'm pretty level all day. Something to keep in mind when you getting your levels right.
Good luck and let us know how you get on!
Wow - congratulations !! Tresiba sounds ace, all that steadiness.So, today I went back for my 3 month review - what a different experience than the December one! I was back at my local hospital instead of the major city one I visited in December - same consultant but a much more positive experience all round. I have been on Insuman basal evening and Levemir morning for 3 months now and whereas my control was shot to pieces and my HbA1c had risen to 5.9%, it is now back to 5.5% and the huge swings from high to low are greatly reduced. My fasting levels still tend to be a little unpredictable - 5.5, 11.2 and 4.8 in the last three days. So, I start on Tressiba this evening!!! I think I need some advice from @robert72 and @drahawkins_1973 on how to phase in such a long-acting insulin when I've already had 7 units Levemir this morning!
All in all, a much happier Smidge!
@smidge - I think you'll find that you can move Tresiba dose times around without affecting the basal levels. Since you are currently hypoing overnight it might be worth just switching tonight's dose to tomorrow morning. Sorry to hear you are having so many night time lows.Well, I think I might try switching to morning basal jabs some time over the weekend - although I've no idea how to switch on such a long-acting insulin - do I take half my dose one eveing and then a full dose next morning or what? I guess that'd hypo me so probably not the right approach! Anyway, I guess I'll figure it out!
I woke at 6am to a very nasty feeling hypo this morning - 2.0 - so maybe the increase from 11 to 12 units was too much. I've had a really bad headache all day and just want to go home! Anyway, I'll knock back the units to 11 again this evening and then tackle moving my basal to jab to the morning on Saturday/Sunday.
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I don't think that's strange. I suspect it may be quite common. I think it may be one of the reasons so many Type 1s have night time hypos. (I did switch to a pump eventually because that problem proved completely intractable for me. ) My Lantus used to give me night/early morning hypos, then apparently completely disappear by late afternoon. I considered twice daily shots of Levemir instead, but juggling that many injections a day just seemed too much. What's your basal insulin?For some reason basal insulins seem to have a strange profile for me whereby they seem to have a peak a couple of hours after I've taken them and then don't last as long as they're supposed to! I think I must just be strange.
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