ANY ADVISE APPRECIATED!! HELP!

[Dale]

OK, got your addy. Will mail tomorrow morning via USPS priority service which says they will get to you by Saturday. Will include as many U-100 syringes as I can stuff in the box along with the insulin. The expiry date is 8/11.

Other board members will help you with how much to start with since they have been helping you so far and I'm not on the board every day nor weekends. Visit the Lantus ISG to read the Stickies on using the insulin.

Good luck. I'll call Sat. night to make sure you received the insulin okay. I can always drive up to Miami and meet you Sunday if there is a delay in delivery.

 

[Karen & Smokey(GA)]

This morning, the reading was 513 so I fed (1/4 FF) and drew up NOVULIN n almost up to the very bottom line. It was almost right on top of the bottom of the syring, so I think it was at the .2 unit mark on the U-40 syringe.

That would be a true dose of .5 units any U-100 insulin.

Last night at 6:00 test was 408 so I fed and gave 1 unit on U-40 syringe.

In a U-40 syringe, That would be a true dose of 2.5 units of a U-100 insulin.

That was before I discovered I was using the wrong needle, so he got .5 X more than he should have.

Huh ? Does that mean you were using a U-100 syringe...in that case the true dose of a U-100 insulin would be 1-unit.

How many doses in each Lantas pen? Also do you use the U-40 or U-100 Syringes for the Lantus?

Lantus vial, Lantus pen, Lantus cartridge: You use U-100 syringes with Lantus---always, no matter what
the container.
Please put your U-40 syringes away somewhere where you can't confuse them with the U-100 ones.

There are 300units of Lantus in a pen or cartridge. If you are giving 1 unit 2x /day, then that is 150 days
(3 months). If you are giving 2 units 2x / day, then that is 75 days (1-1/2) months. Most here are able
to use the pen to almost the last drop. But mis-handling the Lantus will cause it to go bad an you will toss
some.

Dale is sending you a 10ml vial, which contains 1,000 units. In theory that would be 3-6 months worth,
but you will not likely be able to use it all before it goes bad. At least it will get you started until you can
get some cartridges or pens.



Note to new readers: She has U-100 insulin, but U-40 syringes