Levemir Injection Times

[scotteric]

Sorry to bring up an old thread, but didn't want to create loads just for silly old me.

This interests me greatly, as I am seeing rises in the evening, from say 6pm until I take my nighttime Levimir about 10pm. Even if there is a correction dose in there at 6.30pm with my meal, it'll nearly always go up. I seem to be steady enough now overnight with my 10pm dose. So what I am thinking, perhaps it's not the amount of units in my morning time dose, it could be timing. I take 14units at 10pm, and 7units at 7/7.30am, I am thinking of changing the morning dose to perhaps 8.30am, and seeing if my evening readings are in any way better? Make sense?

If not, then I can more so look at fasting from having lunch around 2pm, and not eating again until 10pm, only water. If it rises after about 7pm, by more than 1-1.7mmol, it would be more so the Basal dose in the morning that needs adjusting?

I think what you are saying makes sense. At least for me, I need to take at least 9-10 units to get 12 hours of Levemir action. If I take less than this it doesn't last as long.

 

[JoeT1]

I am wondering whether it could also be a timing issue, although, if I only take my levimir morning dose one hour later, that will only delay the rise by an hour. I could be better to just take it at the normal time, and take the extra unit. Hopefully won't be too much overlap, resulting in a low during the day