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Message: <blockquote data-quote="noblehead" data-source="post: 1303146" data-attributes="member: 11028">Your confusing the two insulin, lantus is your basal insulin and your bolus insulin is one you take before eating.To determine if your basal (lantus) insulin is set too high you would need to do a basal test, this means testing your bg levels 4 hours after your previous meal and then missing the next meal and bolus dose, during this period you would test your bg levels hourly and adjust your basal dose going from the results, so if you hypo'd during the basal test then it's most likely your basal insulin is set too high.Although the following is for pump users it explains how to do a basal test throughout a 24 hour period:<a href="http://www.salforddiabetescare.co.uk/index2.php?nav_id=1007" target="_blank">http://www.salforddiabetescare.co.uk/index2.php?nav_id=1007</a></blockquote>

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