Any help please?

[Marcus Griffiths]

Can someone explain to me the use of Lantus? Because it makes my sugars drop during the day I use nova rapid for the amount of carbs I eat and I've read online there's something in the medicine keeping you a patient which would make sense I can only find limited information about it and it's still in trials I'm having a few problems which I'll post soon any help would be appreciated thanks

 

[mikeyB]

Hi, Marcus, welcome to the forum.

Lantus is a long acting insulin, acting like a normal pancreas in supplying a constant background of insulin supply. The Novorapid is used to cope with the food that you eat.

I don’t know where you’ve been looking for information on Lantus, but it’s been around for years and is certainly not “on trial” or in any way experimental. I was on it for twenty years.

What problems have you been having?

 

[trophywench]

Think I started on it a bit later than mikeyB - about 2003-ish but although it was newer, it had already been out since 1998-ish from memory.

Your whole body uses insulin constantly - not only when you eat carbohydrate. You couldn't be alive without it!

If Lantus actually reduces your blood glucose more than you need it to in the background, then the dose is too high,

There is no other treatment than insulin, to keep a T1 diabetic alive and there is no cure for it either.

I see you only joined the forum today - have you not been diagnosed long?

 

[TheClockworkDodo]

Just to add, if your sugars are dropping too much during the day, it may be that you need your dose of Lantus or your doses of Novorapid to be adjusted - or it may be that you need a different background insulin instead of Lantus.

But we'd need more information to be able to advise you further.

Welcome to the forum, btw 🙂

 

[Akasha]

When I was on lantus, I queried it with my hospital about dropping low in the night, could it be the lantus. Regular stupid o'clock, wake me up hypos.
Consultant said no, don't be silly.
Nurse said yes, it has a peak time of roughly 5 hours, even though the long acting insulins shouldn't.
We moved it from 10pm to 10am, which meant I needed less nova rapid during the daytime(specifically lunch).

Hope this helps, but if In doubt speak to your care team. 🙂

 

[trophywench]

Well yeah - Lantus does have quite a huge peak around 5 hours after injecting it which is build up to after about 90mins to 2 hours, and reduces back down again thereafter over the next 3 -ish hours. However - some medics were told that it's 'flat' in training and refuse to believe it isn't despite 99% of their Type 1 patients telling them it isn't.

Let's hope they either learn or change their speciality to something I never suffer from! LOL

 

[Kaylz]

One of my friends surfyingfrom diabetes. He is in serious condition Doctors are don't giving a good advice. Kindly help us guys and suggest me a good advice.

Sorry what do you mean?

 

[HOBIE]

Good luck 🙂