First night experience.
Bedtime blood sugar was 64 at 10:30 pm. I didn’t do anything as, i expected it to rise overnight and no fast acting left on board. 25u of tresiba = my current levemir dose. The injection stung a little.
Woke up just now at 6 am. Tested and bs is 66. So pretty much absolutely flat overnight in the first 8 or so hours. If this insulin stacks to some degree i may need a lower dose. Will go to bed a bit higher tonight in case it does and may drop dose to 20u.
Going to eat something small now before i walk the dogs (normally i only have coffee in the morning, and my first meal is lunch) as i will prefer to be in the 80s.
Good results! I was assured by my doctor that there would be no stack effect… I had been quite concerned about that subject myself too-- And he strongly urged me not to adjust my dose until at least 3-4 days in because it’ll take that long to reach a state of equilibrium (though he is very supportive of self adjusting in general) For me that proved to be good advice but by all means do whatever is comfortable for you!
i am not on this tresiba insulin. i have been on lantus and levemir. i have a question for those of you trying this stuff out. if it lasts like 40 hours, what is your schedule for injecting? i do my levemir injections twice a day. so would you do tresiba every other day, varying the time of day you give it to yourself?
and does anyone know how to pronounce teojou or whatever it is?
My doctor says to take it 1x daily, same exact way I used lantus, same exact dose… It’s just not a huge emergency if you fall asleep on the couch and forget to take it… Really no learning curve or habit adjustment at all from lantus. Seems too simple to be true but it really has been nice, no complex timing arrangements or any of that, just take your daily basal dose 1x daily— simple as that.
Toujeo is pronounced too-jay-oh
@JustLookin pretty awesome to wake up at exact name number you went to bed with on day 1.
If this is as good as it seems it could be a breakthrough, especially for people on mdi (which most people in the world are - if they are lucky enough to have access to insulin), and may even negate the need for pumped basal. People with diabetes will not need to go to bed high in order not to wake up low (mds & pwd can safely target lower and more normal bs levels). It means much more accurate bs control. Wait and see. …
Awww… Give me another reason to feel bad that I can’t figure out any reasonable way to attend that! Sure would love to have an opportunity to meet him.
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This is interesting in light of the fact that Stephen Ponder of Sugar Surfing fame, runs his pump on a flat basal for the entire day
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On my pump i also had a flat basal and very good results with it.
Regarding lowering my basal, i might have reached a point where im not going low all the time, but we’ll have to see
What strikes me is that there had been no improvement in basal insulins in so so long. If lantus wasn’t good enough for you eventually you could try levemir… If that doesn’t work well your only option was to have a pump attached to your body for the rest of your life-- if you were fortunate enough to afford one… (or have horrible control of your blood sugar). .
Now finally there is something that works better-- and a lot of people, sure- not everyone, but a lot of people who couldn’t have had good control without a pump may now be able to. (And maybe some people who couldn’t have had good control even with a pump— really looking forward to seeing some more pumpers try it out) That’s a big deal in my estimation. Combine this with afrezza and I’d say the burden of being a t1 diabetic is only a tiny fraction of what it was for me just a year ago…
And I had good control before all this stuff… Seems to me others may benefit even more than me by all this new technology.
Well, to me personally that is a bit of an overstatement. For me, it is still about the same amount of work, but it is definitely interesting to see that similar results can now be obtained by a broader choice of therapies, which is definitely an awesome thing.
Day 2. Went to bed at 78 woke at 82. This is going to be boring if this continues.
However, after waking low at 64 yesterday, i was low all day yesterday with most numbers in the 60s and 70s (only ended up using 2 units of bolus), with a peak of 93. May need to recalculate bolus with this basal.
5th day today.
This is a rock solid basal. Very nice.
My blood, sugar has been in the range of 62 - 101, with average about 83. I have had more carbs than usual to try top bring up the 62s., which i have kept drifting down to.
Don’t know what my bs was last night (had, a steak and redwine for dinner, which would not have much if any effect). Woke at 87 at 6 am. Had my usual coffee and cream). No fast acting. No food. 62 again at 4pm. 30g of carb later (i love ferrero rocher) and only 93.
Time to reduce dose. The conversion for me is obviously lower than my dose of levemir. Will reduce from 25 to 22 u and see.
May i ask when you guys inject the tresiba? I do it at night and seem to have lows at night but not during the day. Could be the insulin to carb ratio though. Might need further reduction, i am down to 15u/day.
Still like it a lot more though, it is really predictable, whereas with levemir i was like: alright, lets see wht today brings!
I’m doing it at night before i sleep. Regardless of what my bs is when i go to bed, i am waking up with nearly the exact same number as i went to bed with.
Ok I’ve started on the Tresiba train!!! First dose this morning. Took 85% of my pump basal to start with. I expect a couple days of trial and error and will keep everyone up to date!!!
