WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF YOU TAKE OVER 100 UNITS OF LANTUS AT ONE TIME ?
Q: HOW MUCH INSULIN DO YOU NEED TO TAKE BEFORE YOU OVERDOSE
Answers (4)
9/ 2/08 1:43pm
Sue....why would you do that? I can't imagine any doctor prescribed 100 units of lantus at one time. You will have to eat a lot of food over the course of a day to keep your blood glucose high enough to after eating 100 units of lantus at one time.
Can you explain to me your motive for wanting to do this?
You can't take 100 units of Lantus on Monday in order to not have to take it on Tuesday or Wednesday -- the insulin stays in your body for approximately 24 hours, no matter how much you take.
-Ginger
1/26/09 8:27am
11/23/09 11:20pm
Well, it have not kill me yet.I take 130 units every night.
5/ 5/10 9:09am
Funny, I don't remember OP asking if it was a good idea or not.
I'd recommend humalog actually. As someone mentioned before, lantus is spread out over 24 hours and very inefficient for this. With Humalog, it peaks within 2 hours and you get the full dose right away. 300 units should do the trick but I would personally do more just to be safe.
1/ 2/12 12:03pm
300 units of Hemalog will send you right into a diabetic coma, it will kill you.
2/27/12 2:41am
its not a comma it will send you into. its insulin shock. and that will make you sweat, give you a terrible headache, make you sick to your stomach, shake un controllibly, make so dizzy you can barely stand on your own, and last but mot least you cant think clearly. i have been in insulin shock several times and its not the way you want to die. dibetic comma is where your sugar gets too high and you cant get it back down, and you pass out. get like twenty cans of cool whip and eat that and you will go into a comma.
1/ 2/12 12:05pm
300 units of Hemalog will send you right into a diabetic coma, it will kill you.
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I am taking 100 units a day right now and my fasting levels are still above 150. What is this "Sue" person's "expertise" in??
My understanding of Lantus is that there is NO MAXIMUM dose. The "maximum Dose" is whatever it takes to keep your glucose levels in a normal range.
One of the respnses to the original post is "can you explain to me your motivation for wanting to do this"?
I belive the persons motivation is to lower thier blood glucose and avoid long term complications associated with diabeties.