Splitting lantus

[NoKindOfSusie]

Exactly the same with me. the Libre showed that I was rising around 20 hours after taking the Lantus. Switched over to Tresiba and it's been smooth sailing so far. Plus, it doesn't feel like I'm injecting sulfuric acid into my legs any more!

I moved it from 8am to 8pm because I was always waking up high. Now when it starts to run out around dinner time, I just deal with it as part of dinner. Still makes me feel like someone's injected hot glue into my lungs.

 

[Jaylee]

I guess I'll just dive in and ask. Right now I take 16 units of lantus at 8pm. I used to take it at 8am, but that was basically making it impossible to function during the morning, when I would be working. I'm pretty sure it's the lantus as it always happens about 3 hours afterwards, even when I have travelled and taken it at weird times compared to when I am asleep, or when I moved it from 8am to 8pm an hour at a time. It was always 3 hours afterward, maybe 4. When I do it at 8pm I just end up sleeping through the worst of it, usually, but it's been building up and building up, to the point where it's waking me up in the middle of the night, not low blood sugars but just feeling like I have flu. I feel like I am just getting over flu most of the time, most of all in this 3 hours afterward sort of time span, but it is getting to the point where I really can't do anything because of it.

So if there is any chance that splitting it in half would help I would like to do that as I can maybe do it without involving any clinic people. The question is how I would do that. Presumably I would just take 8 units at 8am, and 8 units at 8pm. I have a couple of days free where I can probably do that, and just keep testing like crazy inbetween times to make sure I am not killing myself.

Yes I know everyone will tell me this is hideously dangerous and I must get a form signed in triplicate from some nurse, but seriously, is there likely to be a problem with me doing this because I am just desperate.

Hi Mindi,

Well you've had advice regarding mending good will with your HCPs. (But that's not why I commented.)
Lantus. I don't split mine. But then I don't have any symptoms you associate with its use either.

What I do remember from your earlier postings is you live in shared, rented accommodation..

What is your relationship like with the "landlord?"
More importantly. When was the boiler/heating system last serviced?
If it's gas?
You could be experiencing mild carbon monoxide poisoning?!? (Judging by some of your symptoms.)

Worth mentioning!

 

[rmz80]

you could contact the manufacturer's help desk. Their form is not for medical issues but this is not really a medical issue

http://www.sanofi.co.uk/l/gb/en/layout.jsp?scat=6AECA88F-F18B-4D47-AFE0-F6D307B9F218

 

[NoKindOfSusie]

Hi Mindi,

Well you've had advice regarding mending good will with your HCPs. (But that's not why I commented.)
Lantus. I don't split mine. But then I don't have any symptoms you associate with its use either.

What I do remember from your earlier postings is you live in shared, rented accommodation..

What is your relationship like with the "landlord?"
More importantly. When was the boiler/heating system last serviced?
If it's gas?
You could be experiencing mild carbon monoxide poisoning?!? (Judging by some of your symptoms.)

Worth mentioning!

I don't think so. It would be affecting my roommate, it wouldn't have followed me to Melbourne, Phoenix and Los Angeles, it wouldn't have moved when I moved the lantus.

If it helps it's reaching peak effect right now.

Or as I say maybe everyone's just used to it and this is normal but right now I don't want to go to bed, because it's too much effort to get out of this chair, this cannot be normal surely.

 

[Jaylee]

I don't think so. It would be affecting my roommate, it wouldn't have followed me to Melbourne, Phoenix and Los Angeles, it wouldn't have moved when I moved the lantus.

If it helps it's reaching peak effect right now.

Or as I say maybe everyone's just used to it and this is normal but right now I don't want to go to bed, because it's too much effort to get out of this chair, this cannot be normal surely.

No, I agree it's not normal. But then I hold down a full time job & play in two bands.

What are your blood sugars like at the peak of these symptoms..?
In my experience, a Lantus low with no bolus on board can be a bit of a slow creeper...

 

[Levy]

I know you'd rather not, but I really do think you should get yourself onto a different basal insulin. No insulin should be making you feel this way or deteriorating your standard of life to such an extent. I never had these issues with Lantus (apart from the very painful injections) but have been on Levemir and now Tresiba which I've both experienced to be much better than Lantus.

Do you have a specialist nurse at your GP? I get invited for an annual review every year and she's the one who can change any of my prescriptions, so you might not have to go through your clinic if you don't want to.

If splitting your dose helps, then great, but if not please do get yourself changed over!

 

[JoeT1]

I'd echo what the members above have said. No insulin should make you feel like you can't move. I don't have any feelings from taking insulin at all, a little sting every now and again as it's going in, but other than that, nothing. I would not be happy if it were making me feel bad, and would contact a doctor straight away in order to get my prescription changed.

 

[leking]

I split mine myself, it has helped a heck of a lot. I take 16 at dinner at 6 with breakfast.