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<blockquote data-quote="maryodriscoll" data-source="post: 173179" data-attributes="member: 25251"><p>Hi Richard</p><p></p><p>It sounds to me that you have the same problems i have been having on Lantus. Since starting on Lantus about 10+ years ago my HbA1c has always been around the 7 mark or just over. Doctors always telling me its just fine and don't change anything even though I explained I was having 2 or 3 hypos a day and these of course would lead to highs of around 15. This went on for years. Last year i switched to Levimer for a while but I kept getting really big highs especially in the morning and HbA1c went up to 7.7 so i went back to Lantus. i also went on a carb managment course which helped a bit but still lots of random hypo's. I have switched back to Levimir now for 2 weeks now and things are getting a bit better. I used to take 17 units of Lantus split into 2 but I now take 22 of Levimir split 10 am and 12 pm. Working ok so far. I also find that even if I do not change my routine at all I can get random hypo's for no reason. Or random highs. Might be worth giving Levimir a go to smooth things out. Its early days for me and the next HbA1c will be the test but so far so good (or at least not so bad <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> )</p><p>Hope it works out ok for you. If the Levimir does not help there is the option of the battle for the animal insulin as Janabel says. That will be my next port of call if it doesnt.</p><p>Mary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="maryodriscoll, post: 173179, member: 25251"] Hi Richard It sounds to me that you have the same problems i have been having on Lantus. Since starting on Lantus about 10+ years ago my HbA1c has always been around the 7 mark or just over. Doctors always telling me its just fine and don't change anything even though I explained I was having 2 or 3 hypos a day and these of course would lead to highs of around 15. This went on for years. Last year i switched to Levimer for a while but I kept getting really big highs especially in the morning and HbA1c went up to 7.7 so i went back to Lantus. i also went on a carb managment course which helped a bit but still lots of random hypo's. I have switched back to Levimir now for 2 weeks now and things are getting a bit better. I used to take 17 units of Lantus split into 2 but I now take 22 of Levimir split 10 am and 12 pm. Working ok so far. I also find that even if I do not change my routine at all I can get random hypo's for no reason. Or random highs. Might be worth giving Levimir a go to smooth things out. Its early days for me and the next HbA1c will be the test but so far so good (or at least not so bad :D ) Hope it works out ok for you. If the Levimir does not help there is the option of the battle for the animal insulin as Janabel says. That will be my next port of call if it doesnt. Mary [/QUOTE]
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