Hi Melody,

Interesting question. I was under the impression that it is 3x the amount of insulin per unit, ..... concentrated as you mentioned.

I would have thought that if one takes 30 units of Levimir, they would only need 10 units of Toujeo. I am only going by the advertisements on television.

My GUESS is that each pen of Levimir contains 100 ml and each pen of Toujeo contains 300ml. In that case, the number of units would be the same. I really don't know.

It will be interesting to know the answer to your question. Why didn't you ask the pharmacist or your doc to explain it better? I see my endocrinologist next week, so I may ask him about it just out of curiosity.

I heard the patent is about to expire on Lantus and that is why they came out with Toujeo. (Lantus being equivalent to Levimir -- just different mgf.)

Good question and hope one of us gets an answer and will share it.