Low blood sugars that happen in the middle of the night really suck! You're dead asleep, and then all of the sudden your dreams start getting confusing and weird. You start feeling like you should probably drag yourself out of bed and get something from your sugar stash. You barely have the energy to get up and then once you do you stumble around and nearly black out. You feel confused and you act and look as though you've had WAY too much to drink. Then after you climb back into bed you just sit there for a while and you try to wait patiently while your sugar goes back up or until you feel good enough to fall back asleep.

Well, that's what happened to me last night, and what I tend to experience almost once a week.

So after last night, I got on the computer and I found an article by an endocrinologist. I was impressed to learn that this doctor of over 20 years was also a type 1 for nearly three times that. The article was all about his experience, both professionally and personally, with 24 hour acting insulin. He discussed something I felt I could relate with and that I was willing to try. He stated that a person using Lantus who weighed around 154 pounds only needed about 12-15 units of 24-hour insulin a day. He suggested splitting the dose and taking half in the morning and the other half at night.

I had never heard of anyone giving this type of recommendation on Lantus before. Currently I take one big heaping shot of Lantus (17 units usually) in the morning. I already know that people split their basal doses but I had never heard about taking that little of a total for the day. It got me thinking that perhaps I have been taking too much and that maybe this could help minimize my ups and downs and the lows that I get in the middle of the night.

Anyway, I found this article to be very insightful and I am always interested in hearing someone else's opinion. Unfortunately, this article was sent to me in an email, and I accidentally deleted it. Please note, that this was just another person's perspective and that I am not offering medical advice. It's also important to note the article was in regards to people who are still taking multiple daily injections and not for people on the pump. If you have any feelings or responses about this please let me know. Leave your comments below.

Thank you for reading today. -Andy