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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jopar" data-source="post: 39720" data-attributes="member: 11712">My regime is slight different to most as I use a insulin pump, so I don't use any background/long acting insulin....   But use humalog quick acting insluinTo deal with background basal requirements I have profiles set on my pump, each profile is a sectioned into 1 hours slots that I program to deliver a set amount of insulin over that hour...Profile = basal, total amount of insulin delivered in 24 hours...Profile 1 = 9.4  units  standard non working dayProfile 2 =  7    units  work dayprofile 3 = 8.1  units  non working day activeBolus1 unit =10g carbsCorrection0.5 units = 6 mmol/l Adverage daily total = 19 unitsFergusI am surprised that you say that you need to bolus for non-carb meals, if I bolused for a non-carb meal I would hit the deck in a very short spam of time...Could this because of the Basal side of things?  Due to the limitations of long acting insulin to cover and flatten the basal line, so that it give a nice flat basal line to work from but leaves the basal line peaking and dipping slightly through out the day so that you are actually correcting the basal line rather than directly dealing with the protien?</blockquote>

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