Hi Northerner, no sign of a cold or anything just generally feeling really tired bg's have been playing up for a few days, fasting levels especially.Seeing the DN on Friday after last appt was cancelled she has said that I may need to go onto another type of Insulin prior to meals as well as my Lantus once a day.
Very often through diabetes we can detect colds or infections that we're not aware of yet, usually our levels rising for no reason. Equally we all know we can get blips which last a few hours, few days or longer. I tend to tighten my diet as tightly as I can if I hit a blip and go back to 'safe basics' as my reference points. Set sources and weights for my carbs in each meal.
It could also be you're not getting along well with Lantus, I couldn't get on with it when I first went from a mix, after a good while of trying various things unsuccessfully I went onto Levemir. Never looked back.
One thing I did try with Lantus and still do with Levemir is to split my dose, while both are designed to last around 24 hours there is quite a bit of material and experience to suggest splitting the dose to overcome different ways in which the body absorbs and uses the insulin.
With Lantus according to my consultant it's not unusual for some type 2's to be using frightening volumes to gain control.
Certainly worth discussing some options around this with the DSN, afterall if you can avoid an injection with every meal for a simple change elsewhere it makes a lot of sense.
She will have all the facts, make sure you keep an accurate diary as while I know it all now, as soon as I'm in the consulting room, I might as well have had the reset button on my memory pressed
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Good luck with your appointment.
