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Originally Posted by xMenace  The "THEORY" is your basals should keep you steady with no food intake. On an MDI it's often impossible to stay in range for a 24hr period, hence split dosing and possible extra bolusing to fill in the gaps.
The only way to tell is to pick a typical day with a decent BG and skip a meal. Test hourly. You should stay in range -- say 6-8. Skip only one meal a day. Repeat as necessary. Everything else is guesswork IMHO.
"We're all different" |
Hmmm - I like this dialog.
I was started on lantus/humalog routine a couple years ago, after lente was no longer available. The initial lantus dosing was night time only. After reading here, I decided to start the split lantus and am okay, I think. I do 8 at night, 12 morning. I have no idea how flat lantus is (in my system - I like your sig line, xMenace "We're all different"), but I was endinging waaay too low in the morning with a full 20 each night.
After reading here about split lantus, I am trying that routine out. So far, so good, and xMenace notes here seems good. Someday I will do some meal skip to see how the basal is being used - flat or slight hill/whatever.
Thanks Bethany for this timely thread.
