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Originally Posted by Richard157  Gary, you probably already know this, but I want to advise you to rotate your sites frequently. Avoid using a site where you have done a lot of injections and/or site changes. In Dec. I had "no delivery" alarms and the diagnosis was scar tissue. The insulin was not being absorbed. I had used my abdomen for too long and I am givibg it a long rest. I am now using my legs for my set changes and everything is going smoothly. I had highs over 200 before the scar tissue was diagnosed. Good luck!
Richard | Thanks for the warning, Richard. There are bits of my abdomen that are OK, and other bits that are probably off limits. I'll make sure I'm careful.
My overnight basal seems almost there. I only need 0.10u per hour for the first four hours of the night. In fact, doing that still drops me by around 1.2 (about 22 in US terms) so that can come back a little more. It ramps up in the morning, and for most of the day I'm on 0.45 to 0.50u per hour. A bit more than that for DP. With that 0.10u per hour STILL being a little too much for that 4 hour period, you can see why 14u of Lantus per day was giving me so much grief! I was injecting right before bed so (in theory) the previous days dose should be at its lowest ebb and the new dose should take a few hours to ramp up. For this reason, my 'trough' in the Lantus calender should have coincided with my natural trough in requirements. But < 1/5th of 'usual' requirements does indeed show up the problem. Weird stuff that would be somewhat tricky to get around on conventional MDI but dead easy to fix with a pump.
Now watch Eddy post that I could have done it using a mixture of Isophane, Levimir and Jojoba extract run through a centrifuge and baked at gas mark 4 for 20 mins 
Gary
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A poem about my Wonderously Wanton Basal (WWB)and it Felicitous Flirtations (and how I tamed its Wicked Ways)
...And through the night it's love is free
It whispers and it flirts with me
And then it takes me, hard and deep
Rolls over, farts and falls asleep
And I would wake up, feeling used
My body broken, bent, abused
But now I match it, hump for hump
I give it plenty with my pump 
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