New to Insulin, unsure...

[rebrascora]

We like to help where we can.... it is our way of paying forward the help that others gave to us when we first joined and needed support and advice. The forum is a wonderful resource of knowledge and experience and we are all still learning. The more people who join and share their experience, the more we learn as a community, so do not feel like you are wasting our time or bothering us or waffling on..... we are actually learning from your input.

Your concerns are very legitimate... probably a lot more than mine when I joined, although at the time it felt like a hole had opened up in my world and was attempting to swallow me! Without the help of this fantastic community I would have been really struggling both physically and mentally now and there is certainly a mental aspect to diabetes because food is such a fundamental part of life and trying to manually do the work of your own pancreas can be quite an overwhelming task because there are so many factors (at least 42) which affect blood glucose levels and have to be taken into consideration to a greater or lesser extent.

 

[Yeoc]

Taking Lantus 6 units for a week and fine, but glucose too high, so told to take 8 units per day. Done that for the last two days...

My stomach problems have returned...really, really bad. Extreme pain with the gastritis again.

Is this co-incidental or?

Is Lantus known to cause stomach problems in people?

I hope this is not the cause, as this is the pain that has knocked me off every single diabetic medication for two years.

Huge bloating, stomach is spasming/moving on its own, really bad pain going right through from my stomach to my back.

Bloods are great, but if this is related it's not going to work. Weirdly also had a very sore neck, it feels like glands. Not inside the throat, but the glands in my neck throbbing. Feel awful.