{"id":145692,"date":"2010-01-06T13:38:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T18:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/47303-t2-considering-using-lantus.html"},"modified":"2010-01-06T13:38:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T18:38:15","slug":"t2-considering-using-lantus-for-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/145692","title":{"rendered":"T2 Considering using Lantus for a while…"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’ve lost 48 pounds since dx on May 27th…so I’m seven months into my life with D. Nice to have lost some weight, but it’s not enough to reduce my IR in any noticeable way…yet. I have a good 50-60 pounds to go, and that’ll take a while at this rate, and at my age (54)…another 8-12 months, I would think. <\/p>\n

But I feel a sense of urgency that I only have a certain amount of time in which resting my pancreas for, perhaps 6 months, would likely improve my outcome on the other end of things. My thought is that if I step it up a notch or two on the exercise (so I continue to lose weight), stay on the Met, keep low(er) carbing – 50-60 grams – that the Lantus might preserve my Beta cells. I could then keep my poor pancreas\/Beta cells in a holding…or growth period, until I finish modifying my body to be less of a burden on the pancreas once the Lantus is discontinued.<\/p>\n

My numbers are not bad, but they often still tax my pancreas…my 30 day average is usually 120-126. But my last A1c was 6.1…which bothered me a lot. It makes little sense that I was dx-ed with a 6.6 (and was an absolute carb queen at the time), and go on to modify virtually everything<\/u> from that day on…only to have dropped to an A1c of 6.1 :confused: four months later. My metered 30 day averages for those four months were 122-124.<\/p>\n

I am<\/u> capable of being patient and, perhaps increasing the exercise bit anyway and asking my MD for an extra 500 mg of Met XR in my day (which would then total 1500 – my DP is ever – present), BUT as I’d stated, I sense that this kind of intervention has a close timeline on it (am I correct in this?) and I don’t wish to close doors on opportunities by waiting too long.<\/p>\n

I see my internist again on January 21st (I think \ud83d\ude42 ). I’m trying to get a sense of what to present to her…and what to ask of her. On my way out in October, I asked her if she ever put Type 2s like me on insulin…and she said, she sometimes uses Lantus for people like me. She said we could discuss it next time. That statement, and some of the experiences\/successes I’ve read here on DF have made the notion of insulin intervention less of a Boogeyman for me. And I’m thinking that by using it now, before I truly need insulin, that it will ultimately help me more<\/i> than waiting until the oral meds no longer have much effect.<\/p>\n

Just so we’re clear, my intent is to simply smooth things out with the Lantus, one dose, maybe one dose split into two…to pamper my pancreas. I don’t wish to bolus (correct term?) with other things for meals, per se. At least, I hope that’s not necessarily a requirement for what I’m trying to do.<\/p>\n

Pretty funny, all this coming from me<\/b>, the one who wanted absolutely no meds at all.
\nActually, that’s STILL my goal…to get to a point where I can be successful with the diet and exercise…like some of you. \ud83d\ude2e
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\nThank you<\/i><\/b> for reading this massive missive..
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I’ve lost 48 pounds since dx on May 27th…so I’m seven months into my life with D. Nice to have lost some weight, but it’s not enough to reduce my IR in any noticeable way…yet. I have a good 50-60 pounds to go, and that’ll take a while at this rate, and at my age […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}