{"id":195463,"date":"2010-01-18T18:11:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T23:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-1-diabetes\/47749-new-insulin-dosage.html"},"modified":"2010-01-18T18:11:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T23:11:48","slug":"new-insulin-dosage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/195463","title":{"rendered":"New Insulin Dosage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Can anyone out tell me how they&#8217;ve adjusted to Lantus Solostar Pen and Novolog Flex Pen?  Son just got a 2nd opinion from another doctor.  Been diagnosed since 5yrs old.  He was on same meds for the last 8 yrs which was insulin-mixed Humolog and NPH.  He was taking 10u  H + 30u NPH before breakfast and 10u H + 20u NPH at supper.  His A1c was 8.6 as of this past Thursday.  However, this new doctor has put him on 35 u of Lantus at bedtime and 10 u of Novolog before each meal.  I&#8217;d like to know some experiences you all have had with the Lantus and Novolog pens, if any.  I know most are suggesting the pump, but right now the pump is just not an option for him.  He would like to exhaust all of his options before going back on the pump.  (Previously had a bad experience with pump that led to him being admitted in the ER for DKA).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can anyone out tell me how they&#8217;ve adjusted to Lantus Solostar Pen and Novolog Flex Pen? Son just got a 2nd opinion from another doctor. Been diagnosed since 5yrs old. He was on same meds for the last 8 yrs which was insulin-mixed Humolog and NPH. He was taking 10u H + 30u NPH before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195463","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}