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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rokaab" data-source="post: 2207474" data-attributes="member: 450212">You'll have to test to see what suits you best, in my opinion the idea of a static ratio between bolus and basal is rubbish anyways cos it'd mean you'd be changing your basal everyday you had a different amount of carbs.You will need to do some basal testing to find out how much you need, and the bolus is dependent on the carbs you have.I know when I was younger one of the DN's at my local hospital insisted that I should be on a 50/50 ratio for basal/bolus, I tried it sorta half way between what I was on and the 50/50 for a few days and mostly what happened was that I ended up waking up in a hypo every morning (and being late to work), so that idea got ditched and I want back too what I was on (about 30% basal as it happened) - note I was not and still am not low carbing.</blockquote>

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