Best wishes. I understand your trepidation - but I'm afraid
I can't help remembering that Tuesday is another four days
of fastings over 15(270) and post-prandials nearly double
that.

Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia.
d&e, metformin 1000mg, ezetrol 10mg

Well, I was not given any instructions at all, of course I am a
medical technologist but we don't give shots we just run tests and
draw blood.  I came home and had to look up on the net where I could
inject.  Now the syringe and such gave me no problem I knew that but
injection sites I had no idea where they were.

I guess I would go on and start the medication, this is not advice it
is just what I would do, I am not a doctor, then on Tuesday I would
walk into that office and give my "First" shot in front of the nurse"
of course she doesn't have to know it isn't your first shot.

Just about the only time I have to take a fast acting insulin is when
I have to take steriods, like this summer when I had pneumonia. Thanks
to some people here and many on #Diabetic-Talk on Undernet I have
gotten my bg under control, well it is a little out right now but I am
quitting smoking and seem to be eating more.  Of course I went to the
doctor yesterday and he said it was great.  I just looked at him and
said great for you, too high  for me.  I maintain on Lantus alone most
of the time, no pills, no sliding scale insulin or anything and I have
very good numbers, unless I am quiting smoking or taking steriods and
or sick with something that doesn't require steriods.  

Jacqueline

Start injecting TONIGHT. Tell the nurse how it's going on Tuesday.

Nicky.

Hi Donna,

I'm glad to hear it was helpful, that's all I would try is to help.  Believe
me, I've
been in very simular shoes and felt beyond like sh.t like you do now and
it's NO
way to live.

I'm with Nicky, screw what the nurses at DSN say, start the Lantus
tonight!!!!
to help you get it in your system and work a bit better, I would suggest
(remember
I'm not a doctor just a dumb ol diabetic myself) but split the dose... Start
with a
full dose tonight, then tomorow morning say at 7am take half of what they
told you
to take then again at 7pm take the other half, that way in a sense you have
stacked
the Lantus and you'll get a bit more "bang for your buck" per say.

I would also suggest, if you have the ability... to purchase at your local
drug store,
regular syringes and Regular Insulin (iirc it's Insultard) hmm that might be
NPH, but
hell, it's better at this point because its faster acting then the lantus
is.. and thats what
you need. But to be able to buy it without a prescription. I know folks can
buy NPH and R
over the counter here at Walmart for like $18 a vial..

You honestly need to do something NOW! I'm so sorry that their treating you
this way.. I
know how frustrating it can get. But sometimes you need to take the bull by
the horn and
just do it yourself.. Then come back and say, "well sh.t SOMEONE had to do
something!!"

You are 110% correct that stress will ONLY raise your glucose even further.
Stress will bring
on depression also (well minor) but, coupled with HIGH glucose, depression
is a given at that
point and the stress only makes it worse.. Also, if you're having issues
with your asthma, then
the high glucose will ONLY make it worse.. I know for me, with my back
issues, that if my glucose
ran over 300 at any given point, I felt the pain in triple fold... which
that is my motivator to keep
my glucose with in range the best that I can.

Also, when we have other health issues, it's a bear to keep our glucose in
range.. sadly not all
doctors care to think this is true.. Thinking we're just bullshitting it..
when we honestly aren't.. hell
we know when we fell like sh.t. Nicky and Julie Bove can tell you that when
your thyroid is outta
whack, you have a hell of a time controlling your glucose.. It's the same
thing..

I know you don't wanna do anything without first consulting your doctor..
But think of it this way..
If your doctor told you running around the block would help you breath
easier, but you knew different
would you do it? Or would you say screw you!!! and do what you knew to be
right?

I know you're new to diabetes, but read these threads you have going.. How
many of us are saying,
"Oh your 25mmol + glucose is okay, you can wait to start your lantus.. don't
worry about it" =--- Not
a ONE of us are.. some are still very new.. then there are a few of us that
have been at it for quite
some time.. I'm only 6yrs into this.. But I had to go through a misdiagnosis
and being on oral meds for
7months, while I ran over 40mmol (450mg) all the time, then I was given an
Insulin mix that didn't do
squat for me, then I was given the NPH/R that semi helped... then Lantus and
Novolog, and until I got
to the right endo.. who ran the correct tests on me and agreed that pumping
is what I needed to do..
is when I finally got correct treatment. I had no way to get a pump
otherwise, but to fight tooth and nail
to get to a doctor... took me close to 2yrs to make that happen, going to
various other doctors trying to
get the right referals.. and when one didn't work, it was back to the
drawing board..

Please, let us know what YOU want to do.. 'we're all here to help with
whatever we can do.

As for a list.. You need to write out to your doctor.. well this is what I
would do.

Get your fasting glucose. write it down, eat, write down what you eat how
many carbs etc.. I would also
for these purposes go as LOW of carb as you can, just so you can show how
the steriods effect you even
with eating little to no carbs. then, I would get the insulin, take it and
then continue to do the same, write
down the effect it has on you with when it lowers you and such.. and then
explain to the doctor, (which I
can tell you it will not lower you at mealtime) that it isn't working for
mealtime and that you need food to
survive.. blah blah.. and that you need a bolus insulin for this reason..
and just make a full lined diary of
everything that is happening.. as well as when you take your other meds and
the reaction your glucose
has on that as well..

Good luck.