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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cazz" data-source="post: 302596" data-attributes="member: 21922"><p>Hi Nigelho, I've been using porcine insulin for about 3 years but I too found it hard to get the isophane doses right in the beginning. It was only when I tested my blood sugar every hour overnight that I discovered that it doesn't last as long as Levemir and that the daytime dose wasn't lasting 14 hours and so needed to inject my night time dose a couple of hours earlier. This then stopped my blood sugar rising overnight. E.g If I inject isophane at 7am, I need to inject the night time dose at 7.45pm so I always inject 12 and 3/4 hours after the morning injection and then inject in the morning whenever I wake up. I currently inject 3 or 4 units in the morning and 12 at night. On Levemir I used to inject 4 and 6 respectively. The lower dose has something to do with the modern insulins being more concentrated (can't remember exactly). I don't need to eat snacks between meals but I do low carb so maybe the lower doses don't cause the dips that other people are talking about. I find that I often wake up with the exact same blood sugar as when I went to bed. Hope this helps and I hope you manage to get it sorted.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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