Time between evening meal inj and bed time inj

[Bloden]

I have never heard of Levemir might ask about it.

Copepod I don't know why but I have always been advised to take my Lantus at bedtime. Maybe if it peaked in the day because your injecting fast acting as well that might be a worse nightmare hypo wise ?

I like taking it bedtime. It's convenient. I tried taking it in the morning, but had a run of peaks/hypos at work, which is an absolute no-no! So, night-time it is.🙂

 

[trophywench]

Can't believe you've never heard of it. Must have been out 10 years if not longer? I would have been on it for 8 years now, had I not started pumping.

 

[DeusXM]

Yep, Levemir came out in 2004 I think, I remember trying it out and my nurse telling me it had literally been out a week before she tried it on me.

Levemir didn't work very well for me personally but plenty of people do well with it. Also, it's a Novo Nordisk insulin so you can use it in a decent pen as well. I'm stuck with Lantus and a cruddy plastic pen.

 

[HERE TINTIN]

Yep, Levemir came out in 2004 I think, I remember trying it out and my nurse telling me it had literally been out a week before she tried it on me.

Levemir didn't work very well for me personally but plenty of people do well with it. Also, it's a Novo Nordisk insulin so you can use it in a decent pen as well. I'm stuck with Lantus and a cruddy plastic pen.

Me too, I have been on Lantus forever !

 

[trophywench]

Well I found it much easier to use and titrate. OK so it's two jabs a day instead of one, but when you are already having 4 jabs and nothing is right, one more is hardly a prob.

Plus you don't have to wait round for half a week to see what happens with Levemir - changes made seemed to appear within 12 hours. OK unless you suddenly go into severe hypo from increasing the dose or something like that, you still wouldn't change anything else for a few days to be certain, but it suited me great.

And - it didn't sting like injecting acid, which Lantus ALWAYS did,

 

[PattiEvans]

Levemir didn't work very well for me personally but plenty of people do well with it.

Deus were you trying to use it as one injection a day? It doesn't last 24 hours it does need injecting twice a day.