Test your blood sugar levels while using insulin, such as Lantus. Lantus should be taken once a day at the same time every day. Tell your doctor about all the medications you take, including OTC medicines, vitamins, and supplements, including herbal supplements. Tell your doctor if you have any new or worsening symptoms of heart failure, including: Your treatment with TZDs and Lantus may need to be changed or stopped by your doctor if you have new or worsening heart failure. If you already have heart failure, it may get worse while you take TZDs with Lantus. Heart failure can occur if you are taking insulin together with certain medicines called TZDs (thiazolidinediones), even if you have never had heart failure or other heart problems.
INSULIN TYPES AND DURATIONS SKIN
Do not use the same spot for each injection or inject where the skin is pitted, thickened, lumpy, tender, bruised, scaly, hard, scarred or damaged. Do NOT reuse needles.īefore starting Lantus, tell your doctor about all your medical conditions, including if you have liver or kidney problems, if you are pregnant or planning to become pregnant or if you are breast-feeding or planning to breast-feed.Ĭhange (rotate) your injection sites within the area you chose with each dose to reduce your risk of getting pitted or thickened skin (lipodystrophy) and skin with lumps (localized cutaneous amyloidosis) at the injection sites. Do not take Lantus during episodes of low blood sugar or if you are allergic to insulin or any of the inactive ingredients in Lantus.ĭo not share needles, insulin pens, or syringes with others.
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