05/03 J.D. PMPS 173, +2.5 149

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Dyana

Dyana

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Yesterday's Condo

Last Night:
282 PMPS (fed LC)
302 +2 (fed LC)
302 +4
202 +6 (fed MC)
159 +7.75 (fed MC)

I shaved his dose this morning to a s1.00. Then, he didn't finish his 1st Breffis, which was some leftover LC mixed with a little bit of FF Medleys, so I topped it off with a teaspoon of 10% FF and he ate that right up. He is currently laying in his kitty bed with Ginger.
 
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ok, I would watch this number. He has the shed to build off right now. so keep an eye on him and give mc and maybe a topper of hc to keep him from going too low. it is gonna happen and then we will have that bounce again
 
Re: 05/03 J.D. AMPS 150 - surf vines please

dian and wheezer said:
ok, I would watch this number. He has the shed to build off right now. so keep an eye on him and give mc and maybe a topper of hc to keep him from going too low. it is gonna happen and then we will have that bounce again
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Gosh, Thanks. I was just wondering, and was also wondering when I walked out the door this morning...if I left enough food out for him today.

Please J.D. be okay, and eat, and surf...
 
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Sending surfing vines for J.D......eat, surf, sleep....ok?
We have a big weekend coming up J.D. Hope to see you after at Ruby's OTJ party, then off to Mocha's ...bring your pillow and sleeping bag...Ginger needs hers too! then, we will be at Mocha's for two days until her Rents come home from the Falls...Niagara Falls that is...
Then, it's the Full flower Moon party at my house on Saturday...but it is ALSO Cinco de Mayo...so we will have to party twice as hard....phew....did you get all that buddy?
So, THAT's why you need to eat and surf and sleep a bit today....got it? ;-)
 
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Thanks Dian. Hugs.

My tummy does kind of hurt. I only left out LC, and I kind of skimped on the Friskies I left in the feeder, too. But, I think he has enough. Fingers Crossed, and all that.
It's just that he wasn't really all the hungry this morning, either, which is something common for him, when he's in the mid blues, for some reason. I had to keep adding topping and FortiFlora to his food, to get him to eat.

Eat, J.D..

5 more hours and 20 minutes to go, and I'll be home. ugg
 
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future question. is there no way he can go to work with you on lower days like this?? would be great to test Q2h to see what he does
 
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glad you're getting some advice, dyana. I reread yesterday's condo, too - I don't have enough experience to offer you ideas, but you've got some great folks looking out for you now.

JD seems to want to do things his own way. he's no doubt doing fine! :YMHUG:
 
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dian and wheezer said:
future question. is there no way he can go to work with you on lower days like this?? would be great to test Q2h to see what he does
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I wish.. but my boss said a long time ago, about a year after J.D. was coming to work every day with me, after he was home from the hospital with DKA, no more cat at work. They got new carpets, and paint, and cubes and stuff :roll:
So, now it's only on exceptional occasions, like the weekends when I am scheduled to work past his shot time, and maybe maybe maybe, if he really really needed to and they really really needed me.

I wonder what he did and where he went today. He seems happy.

He is still drinking water a lot. Do I have to worry about kidney disease? His last BUN was 49 high (15-34 mg/dl) and Creatinine 1.8 normal (0.8 - 2.3 mg/dl) on March 21st. My vet says it's just his diabetes that makes him drink. I do see Ginger drinking a lot more too, these days. I know they like their new water fountain (bought as an early Christmas present), but still.
 
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Oh, and, I just changed my ss to say that the new dose is 0.75. It could be s1.00, I am measuring to one line width of light between the plunger and the 0.50 unit line, but the lines are thick on my ReliOn syringes. It's hard to tell. I think I'm calling the new dose 0.75. It's just easier for my mind :roll: for some reason to measure it that way, then trying to measure 1.00 unit and squeeze out some...maybe unknown amount.
 
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I think it would have been an interesting test day for sure. shame we cannot bring our cats to work with us. they always let em leave early If I have to pull a all nighter or else I tell them, my 3 cats WILL be brought in and kept in the office.

it is a hot and humid day here and maybe it is there and since your cats like water, they are drinking more. I think a sign of elevated BUN and other stuff normal could be dehydration. But what do I know.

.75 sounds good. keep this dose and may need a few more extra tests to make sure he is not dropping to low. control it with food.

i forget, is he carb sensitive??
 
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dian and wheezer said:
I think it would have been an interesting test day for sure. shame we cannot bring our cats to work with us. they always let em leave early If I have to pull a all nighter or else I tell them, my 3 cats WILL be brought in and kept in the office.

it is a hot and humid day here and maybe it is there and since your cats like water, they are drinking more. I think a sign of elevated BUN and other stuff normal could be dehydration. But what do I know.

.75 sounds good. keep this dose and may need a few more extra tests to make sure he is not dropping to low. control it with food.

i forget, is he carb sensitive??
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I do not believe he is carb sensitive. I did a search on HC on my ss and see a match on 12/27, 01/14, 04/01, and 04/16.

Lesson Learned?: When he is in the blues (or low yellows?) at PS, and only goes up by 40 or 50 points after eating, then, feed a higher carb food, if going to be away all day. Right?

Normally, he goes up by a lot more, after eating. :roll: So, then maybe, he is carb sensitive, but I really don't think he is.

I can, probably bring him in to work, if I turn on the water works, but I want to save that in my back pocket. KWIM.

His drinking. Maybe, it's the pancreatitis. He is keeping himself hydrated cat_pet_icon He's a good boy.
All his other bloodwork has been normal (and he's had 3 total blood workups since November). He's always been a drinker of water when high and when low. It's pretty "normal" for him, it just seems like more, ever since I bought the fountain.

Thanks Dian. :YMHUG: Appreciate it.
 
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When he is in the blues (or low yellows?) at PS, and only goes up by 40 or 50 points after eating, then, feed a higher carb food, if going to be away all day. Right?

I think so. if he ain't going up, then he can only go down. was all the food eaten when you got home?? and when home. some frequent testing to see where he is going and slow the drop with food

too bad you cannot have a web cam set up and you can check on him from work

k, work for me so OTB. can not wait to see what happens through the night but I a polder than you and need my wrinkle sleep
 
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hi Dyana...Sounds like Dian is giving you some good advise! I bet JD is just drinking more because of his new fountain! Kitties really love fountains it's like fresh water all the time!
There is a Super Moon this weekend, so keep that in mind...
BTW...nice am and pm ps for JD!
 
dian and wheezer said:
When he is in the blues (or low yellows?) at PS, and only goes up by 40 or 50 points after eating, then, feed a higher carb food, if going to be away all day. Right?

I think so. if he ain't going up, then he can only go down. was all the food eaten when you got home?? and when home.
No, the first bowl I looked at when I walked in the door was empty, but the others weren't, sometimes they are, and then I really wonder what he did :shock: , but usually I throw out a lot, if he doesn't eat it overnight.
And, Ginger was there to greet me at the door, and J.D. was not nailbite_smile I found him asleep in my bed. some frequent testing to see where he is going and slow the drop with food He ate at +1.5, and was a little lower at +2.5, so I gave him some LC mixed with MC.
By the way, I hope I haven't created little monsters. They seem to like the MC too much, and sniff and walk away from LC. :?

too bad you cannot have a web cam set up and you can check on him from work
So, I can stare at him sleeping in his bed all day at work :) and think eat eat eat. It would be a good thing, really :)

k, work for me so OTB. can not wait to see what happens through the night but I a polder than you and need my wrinkle sleep You might be older by a couple weeks, but not by much, lady. Thanks for your help. I'm off to bed, too
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Deb & Spot said:
hi Dyana...Sounds like Dian is giving you some good advise! I bet JD is just drinking more because of his new fountain! Kitties really love fountains it's like fresh water all the time!
There is a Super Moon this weekend, so keep that in mind...
BTW...nice am and pm ps for JD!
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Thanks Deb. I think everyone on FDMB should be warned about Super Moon.
I hope you and mom and Spot and Ali and Ralph and GeeCee and Molly are all doing good :-D . Miss you. :YMHUG:
 
Dyana

I meant to post in your condo this morning but an appt took much longer than I thought and poof went the day.

I read Libby's and Michelle's comments last night and one thing I did not make clear in my post is that I don't feed Gracie higher carb but still low carb food so that I can give her more insulin. She still primarily eats the same 4%nfood that she always has and Inuse the 8% and 10% to steer her just like other people use foods or karo/honey to manage the curve. She has gone up and down between f1.25 and what I call a chubby 1u (c1u) since her shed first filled on lev. When she's failed reductions, I have taken her back up. Right now, she's back on the c1u dose and I'm holding my breath to see if she holds the reduction. When I referred to "extra insulin" yesterday, I was not clear. That reference was to her endogenous insulin because I think her pancreas is working and adding its insulin into the mix of what I give her. Just my speculation.

Managing her curve like I am doing is very different than feeding higher carbs to raise the nadir of the curve to flatten it and then increasing the insulin to bring it all down.

I hope you will come back and visit our condo. For the last few months, it's been all about simplification :-D

Sorry to hijack but I figured it's about bedtime soon for you. Ni ni

Eta....BUN can be elevated due to a high protein diet. It's not always due to dehydration. I wouldn't worry aboutnitnas long as the creat stays normal.
 
True gracie on Bun. higher protein will do that. should have remembered.

on JD, since Dyana has tried just about everything, I thought leaving dose at .75 and just controlling drop with higher carb for a while would help him like the lower numbers and keep him from bouncing and not keep adjusting insulin dose. from there the dose can be lowered once he adjusts to better numbers. especially since LC does not seem to bring him up unlike my wheezer who only needs to sniff homemade raw and BG goes up
 
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