Starting Well
Getting Off To A Good Start With Your Insulin
It's normal for insulin doses to be adjusted over time. Your healthcare team will help you to adjust your insulin as you need to. This short video explains about how insulin is taken, as well as the importance of monitoring blood sugar which can help your healthcare team and you to see if you are using the right dose of insulin. Take a quick look, as getting to grips with some of the basics like this will support you manage your diabetes well.
Better Understanding How to Take Insulin
Living Well
Understanding Diabetes & Insulins
You can live well with diabetes. The important thing is to manage your condition, as this will support you to stay well and limit the chances of complications now and in the future.
It may feel like there is a lot to learn at the start, but if you invest some time upfront, you will find that managing your diabetes becomes more natural, especially if you can build it into your daily routines.
This Starter Guide is full of information to help and support you to understand diabetes and to get to grips with good diabetes management. Help is always at hand through your healthcare team.
Take time to watch these introductory videos about Understanding Diabetes and Understanding Insulin.
Starting well is important, it will help you set good habits that will help you manage your diabetes as part of your normal life. Take a bit of time to understand what diabetes is, as when you understand it, you can then manage it even better.
Better Understanding Diabetes
Better Understanding Insulin
Staying Well
Home Monitoring Diary
It really helps to keep a record of all your readings, especially in the early weeks and months, so you can spot any patterns. It can also help your healthcare team to see how you are doing on a daily basis and to help you make positive changes.
Toujeo Solostar
Using Your Toujeo® SoloStar®
Your Toujeo® Solostar® is the device that will help deliver the right dose of insulin for you. It is simple to use and you will quickly get to grips with how to use it, where to store it and how to adjust your insulin doses. Take a look at the short video and the digital handbook to familiarise yourself with your Toujeo®Solostar®.
Calculate Your Dose
Starting Toujeo®: Insulin Naïve Patients Dose Calculator¹*
Toujeo® T2DM Dosing Calculator
Determine a patient’s starting dose based on body weight¹*
Enter a patient’s weight (kg)–to calculate the recommended starting dose
Weight in Kilogram:
Starting dose of Toujeo® isT2DM, type 2 diabetes mellitus.
* Units of Toujeo® are rounded down to the nearest whole unit and are calculated based on a recommended starting dose of 0.2 Units/kg. For dosing information in specific populations such as type 1 diabetes mellitus, please see the full Prescribing Information for Toujeo®.
Patients on b.i.d. basal insulin: use 80% of previous basal insulin dose.
T2DM: type 2 diabetes mellitus: b.i.d.: twice-daily.
* Weight range shown is illustrative only and dose calculation is not limited to this range.
The exact adjustment of your patient’s therapy must be determined individually. Please also refer to the Toujeo® SmPC.
Starting Toujeo®: Switching to Toujeo® from another Basal insulin¹
Enter total daily dose
Toujeo Dose
Enter total daily dose
Toujeo Dose
Patients on b.i.d. basal insulin: use 80% of previous basal insulin dose.
T2DM: type 2 diabetes mellitus: b.i.d.: twice-daily.
The exact adjustment of your patient’s therapy must be determined individually. Please also refer to the Toujeo® SmPC.
Starting Toujeo®
Starting right with Toujeo® in your T2DM patients¹®
Patients on b.i.d. basal insulin: use 80% of previous basal insulin dose.
T2DM: type 2 diabetes mellitus: b.i.d.: twice-daily.
The exact adjustment of your patient’s therapy must be determined individually. Please also refer to the Toujeo® SmPC.
Starting Toujeo®
Titrate the dose of Toujeo® once or twice weekly²,³
Starting Toujeo®
Flexibility of six hours window (±3 hr) of administration
Toujeo® offers more constant glucose profile regardless time of injection; morning or evening⁴
TOUJEO® OFFERS ONCE-DAILY DOSING AND THE BENEFIT OF DOSING FLEXIBILITY (±3 HOURS), DUE TO ITS EXTENDED DURATION OF ACTION LASTING UP TO 36 HOURS¹,⁵,⁶
Average glucose profiles evaluated in patients with T1DM with CGM
Adapted from Bergenstal R, et al. 2014.
Aim: To investigate the efficacy and safety of Gla-300 when there is greater variability in the timing of injections. Eligible participants completing 6 months of optimized treatment with Gla-300 in EDITION 1 (n = 109) and EDITION 2 (n = 89), having a mean hemoglobin A1c level of 7.3 %, were randomized (1:1) to groups advised to increase variability of between-injection intervals to 24 – up to 3 h or to maintain fixed 24-h intervals for 3 months.
Changes of HbA1c level and other efficacy and safety measures were assessed.
- Toujeo Summary of Product Characteristics January 2020
- Titration algorithm for people with T2DM is based on EDITION studies 1,2 and 3. Insulin dose is to be increased not more than every 3-4 days (based on the preceding 3 measurements).
- ADA Guidelines 2017.
- Bergenstal RM et al. Diabetes care 2017. 40:554-560.
- Adapted from Jeandidier N et al. Abstract at 50th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes 2014. Poster presentation, abstract 961.
- Peyrot M et al. Diabetes Med 2012;29:682–689.
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