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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Antje77" data-source="post: 2696023" data-attributes="member: 372207">We're all different, and the amount of insulin we use is highly individual, no matter if you're still in your honeymoon or not.Some T1's (after honeymoon) need less than 20 units of total (basal and bolus) insulin a day, others need over 200, so the amount I take won't tell you anything about what to expect in your own future.But for what it's worth, I'm on the higher end, likely because of some insulin resistance and being fat, and currently use between 80 and 100 units of basal and around 10 to 40 units of bolus throughout the day, on low carb.Others use much less, even decades after ending the honeymoon and on much more carbs.Tresiba is available in the UK, I'm in the Netherlands though.I find Tresiba much more stable than the Lantus I used a very long time ago.Which is good and bad: Good because it keeps me so steady without peaks and troughs, it makes no difference if I take it at 10 PM or 5 AM, it just keeps doing its thing. Bad because it's so steady and very long acting. Any dose adjustment takes about 3 days to take full effect, useless for adjusting your basal for more or less active days, or illness, or holidays.I've never used Levemir on it's own as a basal, I only use a little of it to top up the Tresiba on days I need more basal, so I can't comment on that.</blockquote>

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