Comments on: Lantus

By: issac170

issac170 — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:09:00 +0000

your Lantus goes thru the pump as well? if so, that would be sooooo cool

By: Bill Merry

Bill Merry — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:20:59 +0000

I know that exercise can make insulin work better. But I have
noticed that Lantus ONLY works if I have been going to the gym
regularly. When I first started on the Lantus I did not think it
worked very well with me but then after going to the gyn almost every
day, it worked great!! Well, for the last 2 weeks I’ve been a bit of
a bum becuause I haven’t been feeling too great and it seems as
though the Lantus is not working at all. I am taking a lot more
Humalog while eating the same or less then my usual amount of carbs.
Has anyone else experienced this?

By: collier500

collier500 — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:26:41 +0000

when we were at CHOP yesterday, they counted the total as the total, 20. But to figuer out the basal amount for the pump they reduced by 30% and then did something else as well.

Rhonda

By: Arlen Roberts

Arlen Roberts — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 06:08:48 +0000

Hi, Liz!

I have experienced it 50 pounds worth. LOL

Still wouldn’t go back to the NPH, though, because I was always bottoming out at the MOST inconvenient times.

Joan

By: Bill Merry

Bill Merry — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 14:59:47 +0000

Hey everyone,
I visited a new Endo about a month ago and she put me on Lantus
(which I have wanted to try for a while now) I thought it would be a
great improvement but ever since I started the Lantus I have been
constantly hungry and can’t stop eating. I finally got sick of being
hungry all the time so I switched back to the NPH today and am
feeling normal again. Has anyone else experienced this or heard of
anything like this? Thanks for any insight you guys may have!!
Liz

By: Sheila Brennan

Sheila Brennan — Thu, 01 May 2003 20:17:43 +0000

The main defining feature of Lantus, also called Glargine, when
compared to other long-acting insulins, is that Lantus is not
supposed to have a profound “peak.” It is supposed to be abosrbed at
the same rate, and keep a constant level of background insulin in
your blood, for the whole time it is in your system. Other long-
acting insulins will start with very little absorption, gradually
build to a peak at which most of the dose is entering your blood at
the same time, then trail off over several more hours.
Jerry

By: dewayne_130

dewayne_130 — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 17:09:26 +0000

Elizabeth,
Lantus is a insulin that acts as a long-acting medicine that lasts through
the night for you… for some during the day and at nighttime. It has been
wonderful for me when I was first DX with diabetes. Talk to your dr about
it.
Eileen

By: kathrine200

kathrine200 — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 03:33:57 +0000

70 units a day? Wow my daughter only takes 18 units a day. She is on NPH, reg, and humalog.

By: lilla_1200

lilla_1200 — Mon, 21 Apr 2003 21:44:52 +0000

Hi,
Sarah was diagnosed with Type I Diabetes just 1 1/2 years ago, shortly before her 16th birthday. We struggle a lot with insulin resistance, with her being a teenage girl with hormones, etc. She started on 40 U of Lantus at bedtime then it was bumped up to 50 U at bedtime, along with Humalog with every meal. She was doing about 25 U of Humalog with every meal, it was a sliding scale, plus carb counting and covering what she was eating. She was doing well over 100 U of insulin a day. Most kids aren’t as insulin resistant as Sarah is. She also has what they call a “fragile metabolism” and goes into DKA very rapidly. She has been hospitalized 6 times in the last year, two of those times in ICU, because of DKA that developed quickly during flu, sinus infection, during her period, etc. That’s my Sarah, can’t be typical at anything she does, lol. Right now she does 26 U of NPH in the am, along with a sliding scale of R (usually about 22 units). She does a sliding scale of
R at dinner, then 14 U of NPH and small sliding dose of R at bedtime. Her numbers are still way too high. Sarah consistently runs in the high 200s to 300s, has since her diagnosis. Her last A1C was 14.2. Her doc has been reluctant to put her on a pump because he doesn’t feel she checks her bg’s enough, but we are changing doc’s next month, to one that is more willing to put her on a pump. We have got to get these numbers down before there is any long term damage done. That’s my biggest fear — what my nightmares are made of — her having kidney failure or retinopathy by the time she’s 30. She got this hideous disease at a horrid age. 16 yr olds think they know everything, that they are invincible, and that everything their parents say is stupid. It’s been a rollercoaster ride, that’s for sure. But she’ll be ok, she’s a very smart girl.
Ok, now I’m babbling, lol
All the best,
Kelly
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