Not heard of basal plus so interested to see how that works can you explain it
It's basically a basal dose, plus one bolus dose at your largest meal - so a trimmed down basal/bolus regime for T2s. It's supposed to give good control with a reduced risk of hypos.
You take a slow acting basal (I'm on Lantus once a day, due to its flat profile, but it could well be a shorter acting twice a day) in order to get your FBG to under your target number, then add a bolus to your meal of the day with what they call 'the largest post prandial excursion' - in my case, my evening meal. You then set a bolus dose at a level to get that post meal number under your target. The idea being that if you don't go too high at the one meal where it's most likely, supported by the background basal, your control for the rest of the 24 hours stays decent. I found a research paper on it and thought it sounded like it might suit me, so mentioned it to my DN who was already familiar with it and had a couple of other patients doing it, so had already put it down as a technique for me to try, when it was clear that the mixed no longer worked.
So far, it's working well for me, my numbers are pretty consistent over the 24 hours, just a smidge higher than optimal just yet, but we don't think we're at final doses yet, I only started 5 or 6 weeks ago and we've titrated slowly. I take Lantus late in an evening, but it appears to run out around teatime the following day, as I start to rise after that, meaning I start my evening meal at one of my highest points of the day, so I'm contemplating changing the time of the Lantus to something like lunchtime/early afternoon, so it will run out in a morning when I'm most active and usually exercise. I need to discuss that with my DN at our chat next week.
I can't just find the original study I read, but I think this is a recent re-publication of the same text:
http://www.primary-care-diabetes.com/article/S1751-9918(15)00073-X/fulltext