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\"Toujeo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Toujeo is the new basal insulin from Sanofi. It\u2019s not quite a replacement for Lantus as Sanofi will continue to sell Lantus. But, since a generic of Lantus will be coming on market\u00a0later this year, it\u2019s a new product for Sanofi that Lantus users might prefer.<\/p>\n

My personal interest in switching from Lantus to Toujeo is it\u2019s reported to last up to 36 hours.\u00a0Lantus doesn\u2019t make it the 24 for me. And it shows less nighttime hypoglycemia. Lantus typically drops me to 55 mg\/dl around 5 AM most nights and then\u00a0my blood sugar\u00a0starts coming back up. Likely either my\u00a0liver starts shooting sugar into my bloodstream to save me or the Dawn Effect begins, or both. But then by 6:30 or 7 AM my blood sugar is\u00a0rising like a runaway train.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been using Toujeo since June 1, three weeks. From personal use I can also report the button is extremely easy to press. So if you\u2019re a type 2 and take a lot of basal insulin, this will be much more comfortable injecting.<\/p>\n

But I am absolutely crazed trying to figure out how much Toujeo I need along with my mealtime Humalog. When I take the same amount of Toujeo as I do Lantus, I seem to run high during the day. When I up the Toujeo by\u00a0a\u00a0unit, I drop overnight. And, every HCP will tell you not to change your dose for 3 days as your body has to get used to the change.<\/p>\n

It is hair-pulling making this switch which I didn\u2019t think would be difficult at all. I keep wondering how much longer to experiment. Granted, it\u2019s not good to go hypo every\u00a0night as I do with Lantus, but at least I knew my pattern, and I always came back up. Yes, I know, one day I might not. But now I\u2019m having to figure out the impact of all the variables all over again: food, exercise, alcohol, weather, illness, stress, lag times.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not giving up \u2013 yet. I more or less change one thing each\u00a0day to see if it helps during my three day interval, and I\u2019ve got two Toujeo pens left thanks to the largesse of my CDE friend who gave me samples.<\/p>\n

So while improvements are always welcome, they\u2019re not always easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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