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Sarah69

Sarah69

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Just a quick question if I increase my Lantus will that help bring my morning BG down? Ive not been able to get it into single figures for a few weeks. Thanks
 
Yes is probably the short answer.. but..

how many units are you taking at the moment and when. What's your morning reading coming out at? Have you been getting hypo's from it?

(I am on Lantus too)
 
I've just started to increase it I now take 28 units at 10pm. They are usually between 10-12, I've had the odd one in single figures. It's been like this since around 10th March when I was Ill for a week or so.
 
Hi Sarah

I also injected Lantus before bed about 10pm as well. Although I needed less of it in the first two years by year three I found myself getting up in the morning with fairly high bg levels and didnt really know why. I did increase it though by 1 unit at a time and slowly I was able to get my levels ok again. My advice is that you get up in the night about 2am and 4.30am and test your bg just to see what effect Lantus is having.
 
Sarah69 said:
I've just started to increase it I now take 28 units at 10pm. They are usually between 10-12, I've had the odd one in single figures. It's been like this since around 10th March when I was Ill for a week or so.
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Hi Sarah,

about 10-12 as a waking level is quite high and worth working on. More questions then..

is this a waking level? (i.e. wake up, hop out of bed, take a reading) or is there a delay before you test?
Do you take a reading at 10pm to see what you're going to bed at? Were you getting much better levels before you were ill?

S
 
iHs said:
Hi Sarah

I also injected Lantus before bed about 10pm as well. Although I needed less of it in the first two years by year three I found myself getting up in the morning with fairly high bg levels and didnt really know why. I did increase it though by 1 unit at a time and slowly I was able to get my levels ok again. My advice is that you get up in the night about 2am and 4.30am and test your bg just to see what effect Lantus is having.
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When you do increase it by 1 unit as iHs suggests make sure you leave it 2-3 days before you increase it again, it can take this time for changes to take effect with lantus insulin.
 
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