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emily deacon

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
Hi Guys,

I am type 1 diabetic and have been on injections for 8 years now. I use novarapid as my fast acting insulin and levemir as my long acting insulin. I’m having trouble with my long acting, i inject 14 units per evening and go to bed around 7-8 mmol. but guarantee every night at around 3/4 i’ll be about 4-5 mmol which means i know when i wake at 7:30 i’ll be low. So i tried doing 13 units per night and i end up injecting twice during the night because they just keep rising? I don’t really know what to do that in between to be honest, i just want to be able to sleep through and not set alarms but at the moment if i don’t set alarms i’ll either go too low or too high
 
Hi @emily deacon . What a pain in the proverbial.
Interrupted sleep isn’t good.
Not a levemir user myself, lantus here. Could injecting at a different time of day, morning maybe, help with your problem?
Hopefully some levemir users may be able to help more shortly.
 
Have you tried changing the time of day you take your Levemir or splitting your dose?
 
I haven’t tried it but only because i wouldn’t know how much to inject. I’m worried about going really high or low at night or having a really bad day if i do it wrong
 
I used to go low in the morning and was told to change from injecting around 10pm to around 6pm (I injected while waiting for pot to boil for evening meal). This change of basal timing worked for me.
 
I use levemir and novorapid. I think levemir is normally used twice daily. If you are injecting 14 units of levemir once a day in the evening now, you can try 7 units twice daily or 7 and 6 or even 6 and 6 to be on a safe side to start with.

I inject at 7 am and 7pm same time as my dinner novorapid injection. I feel safer to inject a few hours before going to sleep.
 
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Hi @emily deacon , just to add my twopenny-worth, I am using Levemir and Humalog. After a bit of fussing around I have discovered that taking around 25% of my daily basal dose at 2:00pm and 75% at 8:00pm seems to keep my levels flat(ish) overnight - unless I eat something particularly carby for my evening meal.

So play about with your dosage and see what works best for you.
 
emily deacon said:
Hi Guys,

I am type 1 diabetic and have been on injections for 8 years now. I use novarapid as my fast acting insulin and levemir as my long acting insulin. I’m having trouble with my long acting, i inject 14 units per evening and go to bed around 7-8 mmol. but guarantee every night at around 3/4 i’ll be about 4-5 mmol which means i know when i wake at 7:30 i’ll be low. So i tried doing 13 units per night and i end up injecting twice during the night because they just keep rising? I don’t really know what to do that in between to be honest, i just want to be able to sleep through and not set alarms but at the moment if i don’t set alarms i’ll either go too low or too high
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Did you eat more carbs on the night you injected 13 units?
 
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