Lantus and nausea

Have had terrible headaches since the first injection of Lantus. I have not had headaches until this. The headaches started at 4 am the morning after the first dose. These headaches last most of the morning. Dr. said to increase the units and the headaches got much, much worse. Then he said to back down the dose and I immediately had relief from the headaches, but then they returned even with the lower dose. Over the four weeks I have been on Lantus, I have only had about five days without headaches and sometimes they come with slight nausea.

I was on lantus a year and a half ago and had no problems and in fact after 3 months was able to go back to regular diabetic pills.

A couple of months ago I went on lantus because my sugar was out of control again(turns out I had osteo mylitis in my toe--under a docs care as well for my wound)--I had surgery and continued with insulin, and then on 20 units of lantus--my neuropathy was excaberated by the Lantus--every joint that had the neuropathy --toes ankles fingers wrists and even my lower back increased a thousandfold. The burning was so intense(causing nausea and exhaustion) and it was put down to an increase pain of arthritis, but I never had been diagnosed with it this severe and this intense-- I was rocking in pain when my nurse was here--at first it didn't add up until I forgot to take my Lantus for a few days and the pain finally dissipated to my *regular* neuropathic pain. I too feel better since stopping the Lantus.

I've used Lantus since may of 2004. I gained approximately 20 lbs in about 2 months and experienced the following: nausea, feeling cloudy, dizziness and headaches a few times a week. My blood sugar is always between 80 to 120 probably 8 out of 9 glucose tests. I didn't take Lantus for one week and after 24 hours all of the negative symptoms were gone. However, my blood sugar was higher between 140 to 200 but I felt 100 times better. I'm going to attempt to get stronger pills than the 60 mg of Starlix I am taking and/or different insulin.