I'm showing my ignorance here about pumps. Is the basal infused continuously?
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Type 1, how much insulin do you inject per day?
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Yes. Basal is provided through fast acting insulin "pumped" continuously. This allows us to alter our basal dose by half hour.
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Pumps only use short acting insulin, like Novorapid. They drip feed a tiny bit of insulin slowly and continuously, over a 24hr period, so that it acts like a basal. The advantage being, of course, that you can increase or decrease the amount that the pump drips in, so you get variable amounts at different times of the day. Then you can dial up your bolus doses at mealtimes, and the pump delivers them on top of the basal.
Oh, @helli types faster than I do!
Thank you @helli and @Robin, I thought that was the case, but wasn't sure. It would explain the drop in basal requirement that @trophywench mentioned, probably there's a significant amount of the slow insulin injected dose that is never absorbed.
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