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Toujeo vs Lantus

Postleneo

Postleneo

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West Midlands
Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
Was wondering if anyone has experience of using Toujeo and how it compares to Lantus? Bit confused as my BS lately have been really good .. took a hell of a lot of tweaking but finally seem to have fairly good readings. Waking on around 4.5 mmol, pre meal readings now always around the 5 to 6 mark post meal between 8 and 9 (other than lunch which can be anything from 7 to 15 mmol but working on this) and now have been rarely getting a fluctuation from the 4 hr mark following taking my bolus. Eg today at 4pm was 5.8 normally eat at 5 ish but after delays getting home didn't eat till 6:45 and my bs had dropped to only 5.2. What I have found with using my new Libre is that I've been going really low from about 1:30 am to 5:00 am having mild hypos which I've been totally unaware (thanks Libre for pointing this out ). Anyway mentioned this to DNS as during the day Lantus seems to be stabilising my levels.. I take a split dose at 830 am and at 8:30pm and she mentioned about Toujeo as she says it will combat the lows overnight. Reason I'm confused is that I have been under the impression that a basal dose stabalises your glucose levels mainly by combating the glucose your liver dumps out periodically- if that is the case I can understand how a change of basal can help with constant highs but how would a change combat low blood sugars in the early hours? Confused about this one?
 
Toujeo is the new basal insulin manufactered by Sanfoli. They also make Lantus. Over time they have found that Lantus does not last as long in the body as they thought it would. Toujeo is supposed to fix this problem by lasting longer-I tried it for two weeks and it did not work for me. I started at the same dose as had been using on Lantus and my control just went all to heck for those two weeks-my fasting blood glucose was 2 to 3 points higher from day three until I quit on day 14. On day 13 my blood glucose began to rise and went up over 260 mg/dl. At the end of day 14 I gave myself an injection of Lantus I had left from last prescription and my blood glucose came back down into range with 3 hours. I had been really stable but was not on Toujeo-my blood glucose ranges for the same foods, routine and dose were wider on Toujeo. I asked to be put back on Lantus and was the next day. The batch I got may have been stored improperly or something else may have been wrong with that specific batch but it just did not work as well as Lantus for me.
Others have had better results taking their Lantus in the morning rather than at night when the had been experiencing night time lows afte taking it in the evening-of course talk to your health care professional before changing anything and Toujeo may work fine for you.
 
Postleneo said:
Was wondering if anyone has experience of using Toujeo and how it compares to Lantus? Bit confused as my BS lately have been really good .. took a hell of a lot of tweaking but finally seem to have fairly good readings. Waking on around 4.5 mmol, pre meal readings now always around the 5 to 6 mark post meal between 8 and 9 (other than lunch which can be anything from 7 to 15 mmol but working on this) and now have been rarely getting a fluctuation from the 4 hr mark following taking my bolus. Eg today at 4pm was 5.8 normally eat at 5 ish but after delays getting home didn't eat till 6:45 and my bs had dropped to only 5.2. What I have found with using my new Libre is that I've been going really low from about 1:30 am to 5:00 am having mild hypos which I've been totally unaware (thanks Libre for pointing this out ). Anyway mentioned this to DNS as during the day Lantus seems to be stabilising my levels.. I take a split dose at 830 am and at 8:30pm and she mentioned about Toujeo as she says it will combat the lows overnight. Reason I'm confused is that I have been under the impression that a basal dose stabalises your glucose levels mainly by combating the glucose your liver dumps out periodically- if that is the case I can understand how a change of basal can help with constant highs but how would a change combat low blood sugars in the early hours? Confused about this one?
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I used to be on lantus up till few weeks ago lantus at nite as sugars were high but nurse took me off it but me on toujeo which I find very difficult to understand what it does as nurse never explained it to me my sugars are high in morning intake it wit my novorapid in morning as I hated doin four injections three in day lantus at night . Maybe I should have stayed on lantus as my sugars were low but manageable but now they are all over the place
 
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