Crystal, it may help you get replies if you start a new thread. Go to the homepage and click on 'start a new thread' (I think that's what it is called) near the top. Otherwise your question may get lost in the replies to the original topic.

With regard to your question, I think we need more detail. Are you counting carbs? If not it may help to start. If you are not carb counting how do you know how much insulin to take? If you always take the same amount, do you always eat the same things too? What happens in an unfamiliar situation like a party where you eat differently than usual? Do you keep taking the same insulin or guess somehow? The usual thing with type 1s these days is to count carbs and work to some kind of ratio of carbs to insulin units (the exact method can differ). That way we can be flexible if, for example, we skip a meal or eat more or less than usual and we aren't tied to a meal plan. That way you can also know how to change your insulin dose if your blood sugar is high.

If you could give us an example of your daily diet and routine and how the 30 units of humalog are spread over the day, we may be able to help more.

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" Crystal, it may help you get replies if you start a new thread. Go to the homepage and click on 'start a new thread' (I think that's what it is called) near the top. Otherwise your question may get lost in the replies to the original topic.
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I agree. This was an old post that got restarted. Those interested in this should start a new post.

Getting Lantis adjusted is a different situation from getting food adjusted. Lantis should be what your body runs on. A different insulin is needed to take care of your food. Lantis is supposed to be one shot for 24 hours but that doesn't always work. When I started Lantis because of reading so many posts I started on a divided dose. To get it properly divided your dose should allow you to have good sugars overnight and a good reading in the morning.

For me the morning dose was the trickiest because food and daily activities makes it not quiet as simple. Your short acting insulin should be adjusted with your meals to take care of what you eat. Your Lantis needs to give you a good bed time reading as well as a good morning one.

Betty
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Hi Ive been on Lantus for the last 5 to 6 years and all the way up to the last 2 years i was taking 20units of Lantus before bed. Now, I take 10 units of lantus twice daily and it works great. My blood sugars stay pretty good if i follow my Novolog scale of 1:15.

My roomate was on 8 units lantus morning and 6 at bed. She eats 45 carbs per meal and takes 2 to 6 units of humalog each meal. On lantus she has ups and downs just because she never counted carbs. But now we are on levemir and humalog. They both work fine. Ifyou eat a low carb meal, avoid rice, pasta and potatoes then lantus should work fine.

I have been on lantus forever it seems and it works just fine, I take 30 units at bedtime and humalog throughout the day for my meals

I have been using Lantus for over 10 years and am very happy with it. I used to be on Ultralente but kept having high numbers first thing in the morning. I find it to be a very steady baseline insulin. I find that you have to be pretty strict with yoour diet.. Absolutely NO snacking. Any time you eat you have to take Humalog to compensate. Tight control of carbs will also help. Good luck.

I was on Lantus in High School & for a few months after... I was thoroughly unimpressed. I had constant lows in the middle of the night and early morning nearly EVERY day.
For me they just couldn't get the right dose for Long lasting; for me.

It was constant problems even though I was following specific meal plans and dosing times. All in all I'm not thrilled to have a pump & or CGM BUT for me it has given me tighter control moreso than any other insulin therapy I've been on; and there have been ALOT of others.

ive been on lantus pen for 2 years the purple pen and recently ive added the short acting one apidra because my sugar started to get prety high like 19 to 24 i went blurred in my vision after week of starting it my sugar is back to between 5/8.5 so it has done me good i take this with metformin i inject 4 times a day now so instead of 1 in the morning. so yes ilike lantus insulin.

and its also good to take your blood sugar reading before you inject so you know what effect the lantus has made and try to inject in the stomach it has a better effect on the pancess instead of the thighs ti atuly hurts less use antiseptic wipes.