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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 527103" data-source="post: 2627051">I don't think that is unusual. When on MDI, we tend to have a basal dose which is the same 24x7 even though our basal needs vary throughout the day. This could mean we have "spare basal" sloshing around at some times of the day on MDI which can "mop up" when our bolus dose is too small. If the basal is correctly setup on a pump, we don't have this "spare basal" which is why we need to be more accurate with our bolus dose. The good news is we have more fine grain dosing to deal with this. Whilst it is always important to get our foundation correct with basal, when I changed to a pump, it was the bolus that needed more tweaking for me and made me realise how much my long acting basal had been mopping up when I was on MDI.</blockquote>

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