Lantus Questions

[mum2westiesGill]

I know it's always best to ask for advice from the DSN but just thought I would ask the questions on here while I wait for her phone call.

1. Time Changing
is this best done by just an hour each night/day(depending on when you take lantus)?

2. Nighttime to Morning/Morning to Nightime
with this being such a big jump how would you go about this? Would you forget your nighttime BI then just take it the next morning but obviously monitor blood sugars?

3. Splitting the dosage
how would you go about this?

I know it's my body at the end of the day but even though in the past I may have forgotten a BI injection here and there which I know resulted in a BS of about 30 ish the next morning it's still a scary thing to make a complete change.

 

[Robster65]

Hi Gill.

Is there a reason you want to try a split dose?

When my DSN suggested it, she got me to try a few things first (can't remember offhand what I had to do 🙄) and then took a close interest over the week when I first did it.

I wouldn't want to do it without her input.🙂

Rob

 

[PattiEvans]

I did split my dose when I was flying to the west coast of the USA to counter the time change. I took half a dose at my normal time and the 2nd half in 8 hours time and then just went with half and half 12 hours apart. It worked well for me but that's not to say it would for everyone. In fact I never went back to 1 dose a day. I've always been comfortable with adjusting my own doses, but if in any doubt I do agree you should wait for your DSN.