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Lantus question

I do know if I eat after I take Lantus it will work on that food and I will wake lower. I cannot an real amount of food after I take it or I will wake higher. I take Lantus at 10;15 pm and fasting around 8 am and try not to eat anything in between then other than a few nuts or olives (fat). I can't eat apples or pears so I have no idea what that would do to me but I wouldn't think it would be good. IF you want them I would make sure you eat some fat with them like nuts or nut butters to slow things down one way or another. Fat helps slow both hypos and hypers. What time of day are you eating them?
Mornings are by far the most frustrating. I have settled with guac because it does the lest damage. LC high fat high fiber and it keeps things slower than any other BF I have tried. Animal P at BF feels like I fired a wrong spark plug. Just veggies and fat spike me. There is something in avocado that keeps me the most steady. Good thing I love it! Bf is always a wild card. It most definitely needs to be my smallest meal of the day, lowest in carbs and protein. Then from lunch on I can eat more carbs and protein but I need to keep the fats up and EVOO isn't enough. I need mayo or guac and a few nuts for dessert.
Good idea with Lantus and the next thing I would do is up your fats (not protein) if you aren't eating much
 
I do my night lantus at 8pm so I eat them any time between then and 11 depending on how hungry I am, it's the best option because I can't go to bed hungry, and eating anything up to around 15g carbs doesn't seem to do any harm. I'd rather that then go low over night, even though that sometimes seems inevitable. I don't like nuts or anything like that. It's a pain because everything I read that can help control it in some way or another ie peanut butter I don't like.
I eat three meals a day most of the time and basically eat the same things week in week out so that's how I've got my novorapid fixed to the point I have for everything I eat at the moment.
I'll try less lantus and pray it doesn't cause to many highs, otherwise it may be a case of changing my dose between 4 and 6 depending where my blood is to begin with, since my lows happen if my bloods have started in the 4s or 5s.
 
Food for thought.... When I first started lantus I took it with dinner and I would also drop a lot before bed. Now I take it before bed and eat nothing of consequence after and I am much steadier. If I am a little higher than I want to be before bed I will eat a snack AFTER I take lantus and I will always wake up lower. Lantus works unpredictably on food. Eating after you take it could be what's' causing your hypos. Maybe have a snack at 8 so you won't be hungry and take lantus later like around 10 or 11? when I started they had me on 5 units with dinner. I would typically be over 200 and closer to 250 and before bed I would be around 125 oe even lower. Goes to show you.. I also think, and admittedly could be completely wrong but I think Lantus gets 'used up' on food if we eat after it and then has only residual amounts after that so when we eat nt we are out of it. I guess you will have to play with it but I would start with an early snack between 7 and 8 , lantus a few hours later and take a few less units and see where that gets you and if in fact lantus is causing the hypos. It most definitely did for me.
 
When I started they said it had to be taken between 6 and midnight. I have no idea why 8 was chosen to be honest. Even when the nurse put ne back on it at night last month she just said do it at 8 when you always have, no logical reason to it thinking about it. I was thinking about changing the time because my morning one when I was in school would be taken at around 7 am but 9 am on weekends and now I take it between 9 and 10 am and it doesn't really seem to have any major bad affects, also on the odd occasion I have taken it slightly earlier or later than 8pm, so I might do it a bit later tonight and fingers crossed. The only problem will be remembering for a while if I've done it or not or how much until I'm used to a different schedule.
 
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