I currently take my Lantus in the morning before work. I seem to bottom out pretty bad a few hours later. If I try to eat something without taking Lispro I spike really bad. Was wondering if anyone has better luck taking it at night?
My daughter is on a pump so i do not have experience with lantus, but my father in law also has type 1 and he split the dose in half, one shot in the evening and one in the morning. This may be something to consider.
I did this when I was on lantus for a couple of years.
Before bed
Same.
Yup me too
Morning when I wake up (17 units) with a 2 unit Humalog BOLUS for 'feet on the ground'.
I was taking it at bedtime but due to multiple non critical lows, I started taking it: along with my bolus at dinner time.
My issue was my BS was dropping while I was sleeping and the change to dinner time evened that out without any more lows.
As always, ask your provider for information specific to you.
When I was using long acting I would take it twice a day.
I usually split 1/3 am, 2/3 night
Evening between 6pm and 8pm. This is the best time for me as it's around dinner. I've found lantus can either last a lil bit longer or lil bit less so I can manage better with evening dosage rather than morning.
Both, 28ui morning + 4ui night
I take it at night. No bottoming out, as I am sleeping, not active.
I have seen a couple "Lantus Lows" when I hit a vein, but they happen in the first 30 minutes, so managed easily.
Morning rising is normal. The liver is putting out glucose to wake us up and all. I have to double bolus in the mornings for food and highs.
Both. I split my dose and take half in the morning, half at night.
Currently split 50/50, not lantus but the generic
I haven’t been able to find a time that works for me. I get consistent early morning highs
In the morning. Usually around 7 to 8am.
I am not on Lantus, but I take Tresiba (similar meds) and I take mine in the morning when I wake up.
Before I got on a pump I took mine at about 4pm.
The idea being that around 2-3pm when I bottomed out, I was awake and able to catch/take additional corrective insulin if needed.
For some context, originally I took it in the evenings, but found that in college/high school sometimes I would forget which isn’t good.
I also took it at 10am for a while, but then found my dawn phenomenon was terrible.
Morning for the last 20 years. I get really bad 3am lows. Always have (even on NPH). Because lantus only lasts 20-22 hours for me it makes them way easier to treat. Plus it is easier for me to remember.
At night, before bed. I'm on a very low dose though, 6 units every night
I was taught to give it right before bed and at the exact same time every in nursing school.
The timing doesn't matter as long as you're taking it at roughly same time every day. If you're tanking, your dosing needs adjusting.
I take once daily lantus at the same time as my dinner humalog. It's mostly to help with my high sunrise effect, but I've found I need to be in the lower range of 70s around 1am to even hope to be less than 120 at 8am. It'll still rise until 11am unless I have breakfast with humalog.
My father in law takes his lantus at 5pm. I take novalin 70/30 twice a day. Breakfast time and Dinner time.
I used to take 70/30. Would do 20u and 20u.
I do 30 and 30 BUT my doctor said we are going to decrease that amount soon bc my A1C is 5.9. I went from 12.6 to 5.9 in 6 months.
Morning and night
Morning at around 5:30-6am. Pretty much right after I wake up and take my BG, even before I brush my teeth and shower. My BG is actually the worst in the morning. After lunch it will decrease at a much faster rate. Fasting BG level is usually in the 110mg-120mg range. I am going to switch my weight training routine to in the evening in the hopes of giving a boost of lowering my BG in the morning. Going to start tmr.
FYI, I take 500mg 3 times a day after each meal. I needed novolog (low sliding scale dosage) when I was irsst diagnosed but were able to get off it pretty quickly by watching what I eat carefully.
I’m thinking of skipping my next morning dose and start taking it at night. I’m also super high in the mornings due to dawn phenomenon so I know it will help. I’ll give that a shot for a while.. “get it? Shot?” And if that doesn’t have good results I’ll try splitting it up..
I take mine at night and I do ok.
Night before bed.
Morning
Before bed. Along with 1000 mg a metformin XR
I take 22 units a day, split between 16u am and 6u pm. I did an exact split for awhile, but moved some units around due to 3am hypos.
6 in the AM and 6 in the PM
I split mine. Half at night and half in the morning. I feel like I get better control doing it that way.