Stopping Levemir

[milfordonsea]

I have been diabetic type 1 for about 8 years now I was taking novarapid and lantus. Then the doctor referred me to a new diabetic nurse well she decided to change everything as my blood sugars were high 15 - 19. She put me on Levemir I had to take 7 units at 6pm and 7 Units at 6am (getting up especially to take it). I have been taking it for 5 weeks and all that time I have had extremely bad muscle cramps, upset stomach I also have Chrons disease. I am also falling asleep during the day I felt exhausted. It has been so bad the last 2 weeks that I cannot even walk upstairs had to move my bed downstairs. Anyway I have decided today to stop taking levemir can I just do this and go back on lantus. I cannot get hold of the diabetic nurse and im feeling extremely fed up with it all

 

[Daibell]

Hi. That's very unusual but occasionally there are reactions to specific insulins. I would assume you could switch back to Lantus if you can't contact the nurse. I wonder why the DN switched you from Lantus rather than just increasing the Lantus shots and getting the NovoRapid ratio right? Levemir can be more predictable than Lantus but obviously not in your case.

 

[milfordonsea]

I did email her to say I was feeling exhausted the first week of taking levemir and she said it possible cornavirus symptoms. I cannot stand the diabetic nurse she wants me to eat salad and veg having chrons disease and illestomy these are not good on my stomach. I shall take lantus tonight and see how I go thank you She thought levemir would be good for me. Diabetic nurses seem to want eveyone to go on levemir I also have aspergers and hate change

 

[Rokaab]

I briefly met someone who had very similar reactions to Levemir - he was one of the guys who was on the same carb counting course I went to about 2 years ago (it was every Monday for 4 weeks), he was pretty newly diagnosed, just after the 2nd week of the course he spoke to the people who were running the course (before then I don't think he realised that the levemir could cause that so hadn't said anything) and they got his levemir changed to something else and on that 3rd week he was overjoyed at how much better he felt, so yes it is quite possible.