Hi y'all,
I've been DT1 for more than 20 years so definitely not new to it. Nevertheless since 1 year I have been facing a problem with Tresiba. When I inject 18U, I get low overnight and good readings during the day. When I lower to 17 or 16U I have good readings at night and I face high readings during the day. Injecting more Novorapid before meals / when correcting high sugars is not helping, my body is not responding to the fast acting insulin when I do not have enough basal during the day so I stay high for hours.
Therefore I switched to Levemir twice a day but it created even more problems when I used Tresiba. First of all, it does not last 12 hours. For example, I use 9U at 9PM so "normally" it should cover till 9AM, but my sugar start to raise after 10 hours (so around 7AM). I also experience this during the evening. I think Levemir misses around 4 hours, so it only covers for 20 hours in total. Also I get horrible food spikes since I use Levemir, especially after breakfast and my sugars are just not steady during the day. The nights are ok but not as steady as with Tresiba.
I cannot use more Levemir because it will make me go low; I use 11U in the morning and I notice that is already too much. But if I inject less it does not even last 10 hours, but I just do not need that much insulin. It has always been like this.
I want to start using Tresiba again, because besides the overnight lows, my sugars have always been very steady using Tresiba including good HbA1C. But I just need something to fix the overnight lows. It started to affect my life during the day because I woke up 2-3 times every night to treat my hypo's, therefore being very tired during the day due to lack of sleep and poor sleep quality.
Therefore I am looking for some potential solutions to fix the overnight lows with Tresiba. (but if someone has a solution for Levemir: feel free to tell me!). Reducing the overall U with Tresiba is not possible as I mentioned as I will run high during the day if I do so. And with Levemir I can not even come up with one solution, as it just does not cover 24hours with 2 injections.
Thank you very much in advance !
I've been DT1 for more than 20 years so definitely not new to it. Nevertheless since 1 year I have been facing a problem with Tresiba. When I inject 18U, I get low overnight and good readings during the day. When I lower to 17 or 16U I have good readings at night and I face high readings during the day. Injecting more Novorapid before meals / when correcting high sugars is not helping, my body is not responding to the fast acting insulin when I do not have enough basal during the day so I stay high for hours.
Therefore I switched to Levemir twice a day but it created even more problems when I used Tresiba. First of all, it does not last 12 hours. For example, I use 9U at 9PM so "normally" it should cover till 9AM, but my sugar start to raise after 10 hours (so around 7AM). I also experience this during the evening. I think Levemir misses around 4 hours, so it only covers for 20 hours in total. Also I get horrible food spikes since I use Levemir, especially after breakfast and my sugars are just not steady during the day. The nights are ok but not as steady as with Tresiba.
I cannot use more Levemir because it will make me go low; I use 11U in the morning and I notice that is already too much. But if I inject less it does not even last 10 hours, but I just do not need that much insulin. It has always been like this.
I want to start using Tresiba again, because besides the overnight lows, my sugars have always been very steady using Tresiba including good HbA1C. But I just need something to fix the overnight lows. It started to affect my life during the day because I woke up 2-3 times every night to treat my hypo's, therefore being very tired during the day due to lack of sleep and poor sleep quality.
Therefore I am looking for some potential solutions to fix the overnight lows with Tresiba. (but if someone has a solution for Levemir: feel free to tell me!). Reducing the overall U with Tresiba is not possible as I mentioned as I will run high during the day if I do so. And with Levemir I can not even come up with one solution, as it just does not cover 24hours with 2 injections.
Thank you very much in advance !
