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Yeah you're right, it is an approximation by the manufacturers but if you are interested in checking it up: http://products.sanofi.us/lantus/lantus.html 2.3 Initiation of LANTUS Therapy Under 'General Prescribing Information'

Like I said I was quoting Lantus' own manufacturers guidelines, the University of California's scientists say 40/60.. I'd rather take my advice from those who make the stuff and actual scientists / professors from world renowned universities than the attitude I've got from my diabetes team up to...

This is the closest anybody has got to the truth to date although if it was a mistake on behalf of the hospital, I should probably have received a phone call from them telling me they were calling urgently about a mix up with another patients prescription. Also the consultant never took my...

'Lantus should only account for 33% of your total daily insulin needs' - straight from the people who make the stuff.

I had the same problem within the first two weeks starting on insulin. To prevent it from happening as helensaramay mentioned you want to have the dose a good few hours before you sleep. I've read that it peaks after an hour and then the effects stay constant for the following 24 hours. I also...

Yeah I'm not so much concerned with putting the air bubble into my veins as the needles are only 4mm in length and I know how to perform subcutaneous injections correctly, I was just wondering if it was common for them to accumulate in the injection pens. I have been performing air shots and I...

I've been storing both my NovoRapid & Lantus Solostar open injection pens in the coolest place I could find in my house (in a drawer in the kitchen, inside a Tupperware box), I have been removing the needles straight away after use and putting the pen lids back on yet they are still getting air...

I have to say I strongly disagree with everything you have said there. Oh yeah we're they regular.. I had hypos 2 hours after eating 3 course meals, hypos when falling to sleep (realising the back of my head and neck were sweating that much my pillows p*as wet through), hypos after exercise...

I spent 4 days in hospital with DKA and had a drip of insulin in one arm, fluids in the other for the first 3 days. On the final day I was given the opportunity to inject with the pen myself before meals but I can't remember what dose it was. To be honest I think I remember the nurse dialling...

The DN I saw in hospital was under the belief I should be starting on 24 units Lantus and 6 units NovoRapid at meal times, all the DN's I have spoken with on the phone are under the same impression and my GP whom I showed my discharge letter to for a repeat prescription all missed it... Despite...

The DN I saw in hospital was under the belief I should be starting on 24 units Lantus and 6 units NovoRapid at meal times, all the DN's I have spoken with on the phone are under the same impression and my GP whom I showed my discharge letter to for a repeat prescription all missed it... Despite...

I tried there first but all the information on insulin practices is about not giving hospital patients double doses and double checking the prescribed dose (which they obviously didn't but I was no longer an inpatient at the time). If anyone can find a link to what I'm looking for it would be...

Yeah you're right about burying the hatchet, it's a new day and I'm over it already. As for insulin sensitivity and dose requirements I figured that one out for myself but it seems that when my basal dose peeks I have a hypo, even if I've recently eaten. I'm only 3 weeks in and so I still start...

The first two weeks I was having to eat my breakfast, lunch, dinner and then a bigger meal 2 hours later. It sounds a lot better than it is...

Age 30, weight 70kg (was 80), my daily diet has been a lot healthier since being diagnosed but it's not a crash diet or anything, been lefting weights 3-4x a week to try and bulk back up. I was supposed to be on 10 units Lantus and 3x4 units of NovoRapid, instead I was told to take 24 units...

I've been over prescribed (double) by the hospital, I found the error on my discharge forms earlier. The consultant, my DN and GP all missed it.. If I wanted to speak to any of them about this before I know if it could have killed me I would have done so earlier. Thanks.

Can I ask to be pointed in the direction of somewhere this can be answered? I've spent the best part of the first 3 weeks of my new life as a diabetic suffering from a hypo's and feeling as though I'm about to drop dead, looking for some clarification before I speak with my management team. That...

Is being prescribed a lot of insulin and working down in large increments after suffering non-stop hypo's in accordance with good practice guidelines or is it as dangerous and unprofessional as I believe it to be? I'm 3 weeks into being diagnosed as T1 and am certainly not intelligent enough to...

What I'm ultimately looking to be answered is if being prescribed a lot of insulin (way too much) to begin with is in accordance with good practice guidelines or is it as dangerous and unprofessional as I believe it to be? I'm not speaking with my treatment team until I get this answered.

I know nobody on here can really give me a definitive answer to this (I did just download an app to ask a diabetologist but when I clicked 'post' it wanted £20 p/m hence me pasting it here) but somebody must be able to tell me how they were started on insulin or give an educated answer. Any...