My 12 year old daughter uses 14 units of Lantus at night and between 5&7 units of Novorapid 3 times a day

I am a 73Kg, 50 year old reasonably active male and I have been a T1 for 29 years. My total daily insulin usage is aboyt 27 - 32 units, 12 of which is Lantus.

Mark :)

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I am very envious of your your insulin sensitivity. It makes controling blood glucose levels much easier.

Not always. When I first started pumping I was extremely insulin sensitive. I was using 7 units of Lantus a day, and Novolog with a 1:60 ratio at meals, and a 1:150 ratio for corrections (or something crazy like that). It made it damn near impossibly for me to have any control. I needed to take the Novolog when I ate, otherwise I went high, but the smallest I could take on injections was a half unit at a time (and even that was hard to measure) so I would have to eat 30 grams of carbs just to bolus, and I had to eat carbs in 30 gram increments, because 45 grams meant I couldn't bolus enough without bolusing too much. I also couldn't bolus till my blood sugar was like 250, which sucked, cause I had to walk around high, or else I bolused and had to eat at the same time. It was ridiculous- I was sooooo relieved to start my pump. Those days are long gone though, and I now use 20.2 units of basal, and bolus in a 1:10-1:15 carb ratio and a 1:50-60 ISF, which is perfect as far as I'm concerned.

[FONT="Arial"]I am so excited that all of you have taken the time to share your information.

I believe it was blondy who stated something about only able to bolus 1/2 unit of insulin. I went through that same stage. When I began Lantus 4 years ago, I was taking "1" unit per night. My I:C was .5:30.

It seems that my rates are quickly increasing and I'm not having a rapid response to meal boluses? I guess I'm just going through one of those stages where I'm so frustrated and can't seem to figure out if I'm going to crash from over bolusing or if my bs is continuously going to hover at 300? Boy there are days were I really could use a crystal ball. I was under the impression at this time, I should be mellowed out and sort of in a rhythm all my own. With out the Endo fixing my pump?

As for someone stating about the diabetics weight, I weigh 100 lbs, my average basal is 20.50 and bolus is 25-30u per day. Does this mean I should be pretty steady with the basals I am set too?

Thanks for all of your inputs. I appreciate it. It's hard at home due to no one understanding and it's nice to get some feedback from others and try and put this in the right order. [/FONT]