Split dose lantus

[Sarah69]

My dsn has put me onto split dose of lantus, 10am and 10pm. The thing is I lay in at the weekends so do I just take my dose when I get up?

 

[noblehead]

Never had to split my lantus but I would say it's best to keep the doses 12 hours apart if possible Sarah, anyway what time do you get up........ 10am is a mega lie-in for me.

 

[Patch13]

Could you put an alarm at 10, take your insulin and go back to sleep?

Annoying but it might be the only solution if you sleep in a lot later than 10.


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[mrburden]

I'm on Levemir, but also take split doses.
I think the most important part of the split is the fact that they are taken at 12 hour intervals. If taking them at 11am and 11pm, or mid-day and mid-night is better for your lifestyle, that may be possible. Ask the nurse to adjust the timings to suit your day better.

Having the morning one a couple of hours late may well cause problems with blood glucose readings across the day because there will be an overlap of insulin when you take your night-time dose and a gap before you take the late morning dose, causing lows at night and highs in the mid morning.

 

[paul-1976]

12 hours apart so if it's 10 and 10 or 12 and 12 etc then that's fine-works for me.

 

[Sarah69]

I think I will have to go back to once a day in that case. I always lay in at weekends, wouldn't be able to inject then go back to sleep.

 

[AlexMBrennan]

I'd have thought that your DSN might have suggested splitting the lantus dose for a reason; normally you'd consider twice daily if fasting BG just before you take your basal is creeping up, indicating that the basal insulin doesn't last for the full 24h.

 

[mrburden]

The DSN will usually have good reason to adjust your insulin. It won't be for their benefit.
I know we all live how we want to, but sometimes we have to accept that diabetes has to come first.