Disappointment with Lantus

Hi there, Yesterday I was prescribed Lantus because metaformin was not helping my diabetes 2.
tonight is the second night and after dinner small piece of fish, small salad and a very small serving of chips or freedom or French fries then a little beef stroganoff.

At 1. 30 AM about 4 hours after dinner had a reading of 17mmol/l

The only option I could come up with was a 10 kilometer bicycle ride

90 minutes later I was down to 9.2 mmol/L

Pardon I don't have the conversion at hand and it irks me that we cant have
an international standard.

Any ideas as an alternative to the bike ride. I am not overweight and do not relish the idea of starving myself
at dinner?

Hi puckoon welcome to the forum, I was on Lantus years ago and I am Type 1, I would take it in the morning so you must be a night owl by the times you listed, maybe you should talk to your doctor and tell him your schedule maybe you should take it at night, but is this normal for your counts if it is you sure you are not Type 1.

At 17 I would have done quick shot of fast acting (but I am on the pump)

Are you doing any carb counting

What you had for supper kind of confused me, please elaborate

It was the or that threw me off Lanie, we use chips he as a snack food

Then finish off with beef stroganoff no wonder his sugar when up

I never took Metmorfin, but I hear it works differently from insulin. It helps your body's metabolism, while insulin is a direct solution to lowering just blood glucose.

Technically, you shouldn't be exercising much if your blood glucose was too high. Rapid acting insulin would help in lowering spikes like that. Lantus is quite a long lasting type of insulin. It has a more or less constant effect over almost a full day. A rapid acting insulin is designed to have a near immediate effect and only lasts a few hours.