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Levemir to Tresima

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Bwobwob

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
As Levemir is being discontinued, I have been prescribed Tresima as my new basal insulin. At the moment I have 12 units of Levemir twice daily. Does anyone know what my new dose of Tresima should be (I think I am supposed to inject just once every 24 hours)? I read somewhere that when making this change you should roughly reduce the dose by 20% so I’d be looking at 19.2 units. Can anyone confirm if this is correct?
Thank you!
 
Bwobwob said:
As Levemir is being discontinued, I have been prescribed Tresima as my new basal insulin. At the moment I have 12 units of Levemir twice daily. Does anyone know what my new dose of Tresima should be (I think I am supposed to inject just once every 24 hours)? I read somewhere that when making this change you should roughly reduce the dose by 20% so I’d be looking at 19.2 units. Can anyone confirm if this is correct?
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You are best to ask at your surgery either your Dr or DN. we cannot advise this kind of stuff on here
 
Just to confirm it is against forum rules to advise on medication doses. If they have changed it without giving any information then I would definitely contact your DSN.
 
When I changed from a different long acting to Tresiba a couple of years ago, my diabetic nurse and my pharmacist told me to keep using the same dose.
I wanted to see what happened first, so I reduced the dose by some 15% to start with, and I was back to my old dose within a week.
 
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