# Super Boluses... what are they? Do you use them? Is there any drawback?

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**Category:** Type 1 & LADA\
**Created:** [May 24, 2018, 12:41pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/super-boluses-what-are-they-do-you-use-them-is-there-any-drawback/4089 "2018-05-24T12:41:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eric](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/eric/32/9209_2.png) [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/super-boluses-what-are-they-do-you-use-them-is-there-any-drawback/4089/3 "2018-05-24T14:55:38Z")

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There a lot of things that could be discussed on this topic, and many points that are brought into the whole thing.

But to start with - very simply - a super-bolus can have some benefit. But there can be some drawbacks, as you have noticed when your basal gets screwed with a bit.

So here is where it takes a bit of tangential discussion to get the whole picture. And I will go outside of your topic a bit, but there is a point to it.

Below is very basic stuff, which most everyone already knows. But I want to show it visually to lay the groundwork.

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This is normal, old-school basal insulin here:

![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/fudiabetes/original/2X/9/94816e75266897d20bdd54d9455089b0d3f122e9.jpg)

This is bolus insulin:  
 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/fudiabetes/original/2X/7/7f89a39b9e9869c8b5dcfffb8e5f188dee5751c8.jpg)

And this is your pump, using many little bits of **bolus** insulin to pretend it is **basal** :

![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/fudiabetes/original/2X/1/1e641f99a2b0bf1d39a1cc509aadbcbf590dc046.png)

And here is what happens when a pump using bolus insulin stops it for a while:

![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/fudiabetes/original/2X/6/6205a1988457a9e689534d68ebbcd64bbc61b5d1.png)

The illustrations are exaggerated of course, but just trying to make a point.

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Okay, so you asked about super-boluses - “Do you use them?”. Not the same way. I do it a bit differently. And it has to do with the pharmacokinetics of insulin and how food is absorbed. And I can explain my ideas on all that if you want.

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