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<blockquote data-quote="chromaloma" data-source="post: 1160947" data-attributes="member: 104854"><p>I had to take another read through this thread. Today it happened to me again, with the lantus. It was bad. I had a good fasting sugar, but it quickly dropped to under 2,9mmol after taking lantus. I was looking for it to happen, and I also ate breakfast without bolusing, just in case. It can't be like this. It's no life. Additionally, I split the morning dose, to minimize the catastrophe when it happens. I desperately munched raw sugar too.</p><p>I am seriously done with lantus now.</p><p></p><p>I am skinny, and have a very low body fat percentage. I have learnt on Google that lantus needs fat to crystallize. Brilliant to give it to someone who is skinny then. And insulin sensitive. Especially when it turns into fast acting!!! It went wrong even when I pinched my "best site" to inject today. So now where to inject? It is tearing me mentally. I have death anxiety every time I take lantus. I don't want to get up in the morning, just because I know I will have to face that Russian roulette. And of course that is a normal reaction, given the history of bad drops.</p><p></p><p>Now it's evening, sugar is going higher than usual, of course because lantus was used all at once this morning. I am not looking forward to tomorrow morning because then I will have to shoot lantus again, and face the possible lethal injection.</p><p></p><p>For many years now, I've experienced strange day to day variations in insulin need. I am now starting to connect at least some of my instabilities to lantus.</p><p></p><p>I am calling the endo first thing tomorrow, I need to change basal insulin. But to what? Levemir or tresiba? Ive got my guess on tresiba, but I've also learnt that tresiba uses some protein breakdowns, and this might be altered for people processing fats quicker. it's like you need to be fat to be successful in taking a long acting insulin.</p><p></p><p>What do fitness people, or other people with low body fat do?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chromaloma, post: 1160947, member: 104854"] I had to take another read through this thread. Today it happened to me again, with the lantus. It was bad. I had a good fasting sugar, but it quickly dropped to under 2,9mmol after taking lantus. I was looking for it to happen, and I also ate breakfast without bolusing, just in case. It can't be like this. It's no life. Additionally, I split the morning dose, to minimize the catastrophe when it happens. I desperately munched raw sugar too. I am seriously done with lantus now. I am skinny, and have a very low body fat percentage. I have learnt on Google that lantus needs fat to crystallize. Brilliant to give it to someone who is skinny then. And insulin sensitive. Especially when it turns into fast acting!!! It went wrong even when I pinched my "best site" to inject today. So now where to inject? It is tearing me mentally. I have death anxiety every time I take lantus. I don't want to get up in the morning, just because I know I will have to face that Russian roulette. And of course that is a normal reaction, given the history of bad drops. Now it's evening, sugar is going higher than usual, of course because lantus was used all at once this morning. I am not looking forward to tomorrow morning because then I will have to shoot lantus again, and face the possible lethal injection. For many years now, I've experienced strange day to day variations in insulin need. I am now starting to connect at least some of my instabilities to lantus. I am calling the endo first thing tomorrow, I need to change basal insulin. But to what? Levemir or tresiba? Ive got my guess on tresiba, but I've also learnt that tresiba uses some protein breakdowns, and this might be altered for people processing fats quicker. it's like you need to be fat to be successful in taking a long acting insulin. What do fitness people, or other people with low body fat do? [/QUOTE]
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