Does Lantus Have A Peak?

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This is also not true. You do not need to eat to take NovoRapid if you are taking a correction dose and you do not need to wait 4 hours between doses. You can dose every time you are eating and every time you need a correction. It is not stacking if you are dosing to eat more food and dosing according to the carbs.

Someone with a bit of experience regarding how to handle NovoRapid might be more flexible but again OP recently switched to this new insulin so give it some time for him to learn how NovoRapid would act on his body. It is supposed for Novorapid peak to suspend after 3 hours but surprisingly for me it did after 3h 45min. It was higher before the 3h 45min mark so assume I took a correction dose at 2h mark or 3h mark I would not know what to expect and what would happen, which dose is acting and which is not. Now that I know better, I know what to do next time, and what to expect.

 

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Nurses and CDEs give all kinds of terrible advice. I'm not saying there aren't good ones but most are more concerned about hypos than maintaining normal blood sugars. If injecting Lantus at a higher blood sugar helps you then by all means do it, I just personally hate these rules that nurses and CDEs who don't have type 1 themselves quote as dogma.

Certainly I do not mean by running high like anything above 200 mg/dl as absolute maximum. Anyway, this limit seems to get lower for me down to 160s, still trial and error phase for me.

 

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Peak also depends on dose - big doses have a later peak.

 

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Peak also depends on dose - big doses have a later peak.

This applies for every insulin. Lower doses last shorter, peak harder and end faster. Opposite goes for bigger doses

 

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Certainly I do not mean by running high like anything above 200 mg/dl as absolute maximum. Anyway, this limit seems to get lower for me down to 160s, still trial and error phase for me.

Have you tried Levemir? What happened to trying Tresiba?

 

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Have you tried Levemir? What happened to trying Tresiba?

Tbh I am not quite excited about Tresiba anymore because of how dull and inflexible it is.

 

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Tbh I am not quite excited about Tresiba anymore because of how dull and inflexible it is.

Yep, agreed. Are you able to try Levemir though? It is the most flexible of all of them.

 

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Yep, agreed. Are you able to try Levemir though? It is the most flexible of all of them.

Hmm... I am doing meh on Lantus and prefer single basal injection so...

 

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Hmm... I am doing meh on Lantus and prefer single basal injection so...

You're probably doing "meh" because of a single basal injection. It just doesn't suit the basal needs for most people.

 

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You're probably doing "meh" because of a single basal injection. It just doesn't suit the basal needs for most people.

It does actually apart from the <24h but I am still not 100% settled like before.