insulin dose - Diabetes Message Board

RUSSELL55 · 01-15-2008, 11:21 PM

I had diabetes for four years now. I am having to take what seem to me a large amount of insulin 85 units of lantus and 10 units plus scale of novolog with meals. Sugar reading are fairly normal now but if I'm late to eat sugar reading drops very fast. Just wonder if this is really to much insulin.

Mark1e · 01-16-2008, 02:04 AM

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Originally Posted by RUSSELL55

..... if I'm late to eat sugar reading drops very fast. Just wonder if this is really to much insulin.

It sounds like you could be using too much Lantus. The general rule is, when you have got your Lantus dose right your blood sugar should be reasonably stable all day, without eating. If you have to eat to stop your blood glucose from falling you are taking too much Lantus.

Cora1003 · 01-16-2008, 10:02 AM

Ditto what Mark said.

The beauty of the new, longer acting insulins is that unlike nph, they do not have a significant peak and you shouldn't "have" to eat. Thinking about changing or getting the dose changed. That might make your life easier and also better controlled.

Cora

RUSSELL55 · 01-16-2008, 11:09 AM

Thanks Mark and Cora
I have been battling this problem for a long time now. Doctors are not listening to my concerns because reading are in the range they were trying to get me at. I have not heard about nph insulin and will disgust this with them because I'm tired and drain from sugar dropping low during the day because I sometimes get side track after injection.
Thanks again

Cora1003 · 01-16-2008, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by RUSSELL55

Thanks Mark and Cora
I have been battling this problem for a long time now. Doctors are not listening to my concerns because reading are in the range they were trying to get me at. I have not heard about nph insulin and will disgust this with them because I'm tired and drain from sugar dropping low during the day because I sometimes get side track after injection.
Thanks again

Don't, don't, don't ask for nph. It's awful! Sorry if I gave that impression. I meant to say that the insulins like levemir and lantus are so much better.

Cora