Exactly the same with me. the Libre showed that I was rising around 20 hours after taking the Lantus. Switched over to Tresiba and it's been smooth sailing so far. Plus, it doesn't feel like I'm injecting sulfuric acid into my legs any more!
I guess I'll just dive in and ask. Right now I take 16 units of lantus at 8pm. I used to take it at 8am, but that was basically making it impossible to function during the morning, when I would be working. I'm pretty sure it's the lantus as it always happens about 3 hours afterwards, even when I have travelled and taken it at weird times compared to when I am asleep, or when I moved it from 8am to 8pm an hour at a time. It was always 3 hours afterward, maybe 4. When I do it at 8pm I just end up sleeping through the worst of it, usually, but it's been building up and building up, to the point where it's waking me up in the middle of the night, not low blood sugars but just feeling like I have flu. I feel like I am just getting over flu most of the time, most of all in this 3 hours afterward sort of time span, but it is getting to the point where I really can't do anything because of it.
So if there is any chance that splitting it in half would help I would like to do that as I can maybe do it without involving any clinic people. The question is how I would do that. Presumably I would just take 8 units at 8am, and 8 units at 8pm. I have a couple of days free where I can probably do that, and just keep testing like crazy inbetween times to make sure I am not killing myself.
Yes I know everyone will tell me this is hideously dangerous and I must get a form signed in triplicate from some nurse, but seriously, is there likely to be a problem with me doing this because I am just desperate.
Hi Mindi,
Well you've had advice regarding mending good will with your HCPs. (But that's not why I commented.)
Lantus. I don't split mine. But then I don't have any symptoms you associate with its use either.
What I do remember from your earlier postings is you live in shared, rented accommodation..
What is your relationship like with the "landlord?"
More importantly. When was the boiler/heating system last serviced?
If it's gas?
You could be experiencing mild carbon monoxide poisoning?!? (Judging by some of your symptoms.)
Worth mentioning!
I don't think so. It would be affecting my roommate, it wouldn't have followed me to Melbourne, Phoenix and Los Angeles, it wouldn't have moved when I moved the lantus.
If it helps it's reaching peak effect right now.
Or as I say maybe everyone's just used to it and this is normal but right now I don't want to go to bed, because it's too much effort to get out of this chair, this cannot be normal surely.
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