# Basal Discussion Deep Dive for Everyone **URL:** \ **Category:** Type 1 & LADA\ **Created:** [July 20, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/basal-discussion-deep-dive-for-everyone/4536 "2018-07-20T14:32:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 18
**Author:** ![T1Allison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c77e96/32.png) [@T1Allison](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/T1Allison)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2018, 8:03pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/basal-discussion-deep-dive-for-everyone/4536/18 "2018-07-20T20:03:03Z")
> [@Eric](#): > > If you do bolus and then later do basal increases, isn’t it the total increase of insulin that brings it down, not just one or the other? Anymore I typically am not using combination approaches due to my big picture tracking of things. If I’ve seen my breakfast bolus start to lose efficacy over a few days, I’ll just start with adding temp basal bc it’s what is historically needed, and it does the job. But if I wasn’t adding that temp basal, the amount of correction boluses would far exceed the amount of basal insulin I’m getting and it wouldn’t come close to producing the same results. Which is what makes me think the hourly basal has to increase to handle the general resistance from the hormone factor…but it’s amazing that such a small hourly change produces such large-scale results. Which doubly means that the margin of error is quite small…as evidenced by my tanks this week. Here’s a recent post on this: > [@Basal Rates and Hormones](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/basal-rates-and-hormones/4133/72): > > I printed out my Dexcom graph for the last 24 hours and put notes on it to show some of what I mean. I was on a brand new Dexcom sensor yesterday but it was pretty accurate based on fingersticks. Yesterday was Day 17 for me, probably peak ovulation hormones. My point in posting this is to show what a difference of even 5% in my basals makes for me. Due to some lows between 4PM-7PM the prior two days with an extra basal of 15%, I didn’t want to go any higher than 15% yesterday. I was stuck in th… And another example: > [@"New" to Omnipod and Pumping: 4 years in and I feel like I'm missing something](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/new-to-omnipod-and-pumping-4-years-in-and-i-feel-like-im-missing-something/3879/166): > > Okay…relearning things that I knew to be true about my body during 7 years of MDI prior to these last 4 years on a pump… This rule of thumb: “If your blood sugar is level, your basal level is correct. If you are level too high, you need a one time correction dose to bring you down to a lower point at which to stay level.” Yeah…my body looks at that rule, throws its head back, and laughs and says “hold my beer, that’s not true”. My blood sugar can stay level at 180, 200, 220, 240…and a correct… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/basal-discussion-deep-dive-for-everyone/4536)._