# Formulary change: your thoughts on bolus and basal insulins?

**URL:** https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/formulary-change-your-thoughts-on-bolus-and-basal-insulins/2534
**Category:** Insulin
**Created:** [November 2, 2017, 4:53am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/formulary-change-your-thoughts-on-bolus-and-basal-insulins/2534 "2017-11-02T04:53:28Z")
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### Author: ![Michel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/michel/32/387_2.png) [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2017, 5:05am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/formulary-change-your-thoughts-on-bolus-and-basal-insulins/2534/2 "2017-11-02T05:05:00Z")

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> [@How to be unlimited](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/how-to-be-unlimited/1608/48):
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> What are people’s thoughts on switching to Novolog from Humalog?

We switched the same way about a year ago and saw no difference. As a note, though, we were still in honeymoon.

> [@How to be unlimited](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/how-to-be-unlimited/1608/48):
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> Lantus now has the preferred drugs of: Basaglar, Levemir, Tresiba.

Basaglar to us works exactly like Lantus, so it would be an easy one-to-one change. Levemir works the same way for some, but does not work as long for others. As for Tresiba, as I am sure you know it gives you hyper-stable basal, with fewer lows at night in particular, but may be more of an issue when you need to change basal often, since it remains active for about 2-3 days.

Imho, the easiest swap is to go to Basaglar, but Tresiba could be a great option.

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