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Anyone else on this and find it works almost too well? I started this before Christmas after switching from Lantus and started on 24u in the mornings. I’m now down to 18u and will going down to 16 from tomorrow. Almost daily I’m finding alomost no need to bolus for meals. Today for example I had...

Well an update, I’ve got it now and start tomorrow morning! Work party tonight so getting my sugars on track will start tomorrow ;)

Trawling back through old threads about Lantus this morning, it happens way too often. Managed to get an appointment tomorrow morning about changing so hopefully no more instances like this

Thanks for the response. Very worrying that it can happen, the first time was in Spain which scared me a lot. Seen other people mention it about Lantus before, told my diabetic nurse who just dismissed it ‘It’s a long acting insulin, so it can’t happen’. Luckily my doctor mentioned it the other...

I know it shouldn’t, the only common thing in each instance was doing my Lantus 30-60 mins before. Yesterday I had 1 pack of quavers and 1 unit on Novorapid at 1pm with a blood sugar of 13 then Lantus at 5 and an hour later I was hypo needing 2 330ml cans of coke to bring me back up

Been thinking about switching to this as currently on Lantus but had 4 instances where it has brought my blood sugar down dramatically within an hour and I’m not comfortable using t anymore. However, when looking it up it states ‘Do not drink alcohol while using it’ is that true?

I'm travelling to Spain tomorrow and I am camping at a festival so I expect the tent to be extremely warm. They have on site facilities to keep medication in the fridge so I'll be putting my insulin in there, but can the test strips be kept in the fridge also? The temperature of them can't...

Strangely I have the exact same issue with salad and lunch. I have salad for lunch and give myself 3 units when I'm eating a maximum of 10g crabs. My ration is 1u for 10g but it will fly up sometimes to around 15mmol. But this weeks I've been having 2 packets of crisps (34g) and have had to give...

I use TriCare 5mm, but any 5mm ones would be okay

Hi, Doctors have managed to not bother sending my prescription to the chemist even though I ordered on Wednesday and went to collect today, Chemist said they would get it for tomorrow and I thought i had enough to get by until tomorrow. Turns out I dont have enough, is there any way of getting...

Hello a couple of months ago i switched from white bread to whole meal bread. Recently I've found that it's taking a while to any affect on my blood sugar but it didn't used to be like this. Normally it would affect me the same way as any other food but this week I've been doing my insulin and...

8.4 this morning but down to 5.5 within 30 mins of eating + taking insulin, working a bit fast right?

Sounds a lot like me right now. I'm on the verge of giving up, got my sugars at a reasonable level throughout the day but no matter what when I eat at night they will go into the 20's. That's no matter what I eat, when I eat how much insulin I give myself or when I give it. I suffered with...

Thanks for your replies. I always inject after eating anyway, could of Injected into muscle I guess, but it was 3 different sites so I'd assume it was unlikely? I'm gonna have a word with my nurse/doctor it has happened in the past also but not so often in one week

So in the last week my blood sugar keeps dropping fast. On Tuesday I had something to eat and had a look at the carbs on the packet. It was 57g but I decided to round down to 50g so had 5U of NovoRapid within TEN minutes my blood sugar had dropped and I needed 3 X 330ml cans of Coke to get it...

You might have had no active insulin inside you. your cells need glucose to run properly and the insulin lets it into the cells. If there's no insulin to let it in then your body will think you need glucose and may take some from your liver?

I'm exactly the same. Sometimes I'd take less insulin and I know that it goes high but the next day I'd do the same! For me, it's down to times when I've got low so fast for no reason. I'd have X amount of units and it will be fine, the next day everything would be the same but I'd take the...

I use 5mm BD needles. I'm going through the process of getting a pump, I didn't want one at first but definitely think it would be much better. I have and they suggested just using my stomach, but it doesn't seem to have any effect in my stomach

The ones in my arms are yes, oddly enough there aren't really lumps in my legs, but sometimes if I inject then it will become a lump straight away. I'll know if I've injected into a lump because it doesn't go into me as smoothly as a 'normal' site. But they are no lumps on my stomach and the...

No it was just me and my girlfriend, i had drank that week, but not the day it dropped so fast