Increasing dose

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Voula

Voula

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I decided to increase Lucy's insulin dose again from 1.75 units to 2 units. I think we have had a little bounce the past few days and so I wasn't sure if I should increase the dose while a bounce is clearing but decided to as we haven't had any very low glucose levels at the 1.75 units dose and I am home all day to monitor Lucy carefully too. I thought I should check in and get some more experienced opinions as to whether I should have increased the dose. Thank you.
My previous post:
http://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/increasing-dose-again.138946/#post-1433313
 
Nice to see you Voula :)

I think you were fine to increase for the reasons you specified - look at you becoming quite the expert :) you do want to be careful increasing on a breaking bounce but as you say her numbers show that there was room to move before the bounce anyway. And no pinks in that bounce :cat:

Work that extra juice Lucy!
 
Vyktors Mum said:
Nice to see you Voula :)

I think you were fine to increase for the reasons you specified - look at you becoming quite the expert :) you do want to be careful increasing on a breaking bounce but as you say her numbers show that there was room to move before the bounce anyway. And no pinks in that bounce :cat:

Work that extra juice Lucy!
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Thank you Serryn. :bighug: I have a question. In the past four days we have had blues and some greens and then bounces into yellow numbers. Though I guess I don't know for sure if the yellow numbers are bounces or insufficient insulin requiring an increase in dose. If the yellow numbers are bounces then do you factor these into the decision to increase the dose. The blue and green numbers we have had are within acceptable range according to the Roomp/Rand protocol which gives 2.8/50 to 11.1/200 as the acceptable range. However, the Roomp/Rand protocol does not address bounces and it would seem that bouncing numbers might then be considered in decisions to increase the dose as I have done in making my decision to increase the dose. Thank you again.
 
You ignore bounce numbers when adjusting the dose but even when Lucy wasn't bouncing she had a yellow preshot and another that was very close to yellow, also the lowest she got to was the mid 90s. Generally we prefer to try and keep kitties in the normal range (50-120) as much as possible - that is the healing range. Lucy only had four numbers in the normal range on this dose.
 
Vyktors Mum said:
You ignore bounce numbers when adjusting the dose but even when Lucy wasn't bouncing she had a yellow preshot and another that was very close to yellow, also the lowest she got to was the mid 90s. Generally we prefer to try and keep kitties in the normal range (50-120) as much as possible - that is the healing range. Lucy only had four numbers in the normal range on this dose.
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Thank you Serryn.
 
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