| How are you actually testing your needs for basal insulin?
The reason I ask is that when I first went on Lantus, the advice given by the clinic was to keep ramping it up until my morning BG was good. Result was awful control and nearly 4 stone in weight (around 55lbs). No fun.
I was essentially taking twice as much Lantus as I needed. When I got the dose right, the weight fell off.
The 'Eureka' moment for me was having it pointed out that the vast majority of people are within a little of a 50/50 split between basal and bolus each day. I was on far more Lantus than ever I was Novo, and consequently had to feed the Lantus.
If I've got it right here, you are taking 48u of Levemir each day and then only 5-8u of Apidra. This ratio just does not sound right.
Have you done fasting tests to check your Levemir dose is actually correct?
Gary
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13 years of MDI
And then a little pump floats by
And now my pants are filled with tubes
That tangle all around my.... er .... knees
The hours I'm hooked up? All twenty four
And that's it for now until evermore
But I disconnect for up to an hour
For wonderful fun (and sometimes a shower) 
And when I 'suspend' it, it plays Barry White
And my wife knows she's in for one heck of a night
But only an hour of that night is with me
As an hour is all I'm allowed now, you see...
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