Hi Siobhan,
There have been a number of threads in the past on the subject of Lantus / Levemir (to me, he was the long haired dude in Lord of the Rings). Quite a few of us find that splitting the basal dose gives much better control over 24 hours and this is because the insulins don't in reality keep working for that long. In some cases, Lantus will have run its course in as little as 18 hours (Bernstein).
I won't stop working for you, but it's quite likely that it won't still be working much more than 20 hours after you last injected. Whenever you hear of basal doses being split, this is why.
All the best,
fergus
There have been a number of threads in the past on the subject of Lantus / Levemir (to me, he was the long haired dude in Lord of the Rings). Quite a few of us find that splitting the basal dose gives much better control over 24 hours and this is because the insulins don't in reality keep working for that long. In some cases, Lantus will have run its course in as little as 18 hours (Bernstein).
I won't stop working for you, but it's quite likely that it won't still be working much more than 20 hours after you last injected. Whenever you hear of basal doses being split, this is why.
All the best,
fergus