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Advice needed on lantus glargine

lizdeluz

lizdeluz

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
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I've recently moved my daily dose of glargine from bedtime to breakfast time. I used to be too high in the evening. Now I'm tending to be too high at breakfast. It seems to me that the glargine is not lasting long enough for me. Can anyone offer advice on this?
 
You could try splitting your dose 12 hours apart. If it's not lasting 24 hours for you, that would give a flatter profile.
 
Thank you, I'll try it. I remember reading something about splitting the basal dose, but wasn't sure how it would help me. I'm not impressed with the mountainous look of my bs graphs, and it would be such a relief to get the flatter profile of a rolling plain.
 
lizdeluz said:
I've recently moved my daily dose of glargine from bedtime to breakfast time. I used to be too high in the evening. Now I'm tending to be too high at breakfast. It seems to me that the glargine is not lasting long enough for me. Can anyone offer advice on this?
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I had EXACTLY this same problem and splitting it really worked for me-Lantus is marketed as having a 24 hour profile but most people find this not to be the case.

Good luck :wink:
 
I had the same problem and spoke with my DSN about this.
We decided that Lantus was not really lasting the full 24 hours (we worked it out to be around 16 hours in my case) so I was switched to Levemir.

I did discuss splitting the dose and I was told that, with lantus at least, it is not really best suited to that kind of dosing profile and I would likely end up having to use more.

That said the switch to Levemir was a godsend and I felt so much better on it than Lantus.

/A
 
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