Yes, some people’s doctors may prescribe Basaglar twice a day for them. However, this would be considered off-label use. Off-label use is when a drug is used for a different condition than it was FDA-approved to be used for.
Basaglar is sometimes prescribed for twice-daily dosing if once-daily dosing doesn’t improve your blood sugar levels enough.
A small clinical study included people with type 2 diabetes who weren’t able to lower their blood sugar levels enough using once-a-day insulin glargine (the active drug in Basaglar) and mealtime insulin. When they switched from taking insulin glargine once a day to using it twice a day, their hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) decreased from 10.3% to 8.4% after about 8 months. HbA1c is an average measurement of blood sugars.