Fighting the Unseen: Life With Diabetes

My doses stayed pretty much the same from Lantus to Levemir-

Levemir actually dropped my basal dosage about 6 units/day

I have had to increase my Levemir dosage up 4 units per year in the past two years that I've been on it.

However, I just started using Apidra (in place of Humalog) about a month ago, and last week I was running very low for no apparent reason. I lowered my basal dosage 4 units... and now I'm doing fine! Might be a weird correlation between Apidra and insulin sensitivity? I have no idea! I plan to talk to my doc about it next visit.

The switch to Lantus gave me the ability to not "have" to eat at certain times per day because it had no "apparent" rises and dips in its BG constant. It also gave me the ability to inject once per day, instead of every 12 hrs (like on NPH and N).

Lantus also, though, put me into many insulin shock comas at night. I didn't react to it well.

Which is why I'm on Levemir-

Many people on Levemir have to split their doses- every 12 hours. I'm NOT in that club and can still stay pretty BG focused with only one basal injection every 24 hours or so. Sometimes I can even go 27 hours without any difference in BG readings the next day. It's weird.