Improved glucose levels this week

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Voula

Voula

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This has been an interesting week so far as we have had mostly blue and green numbers and very little bouncing. We have never had so many consecutive days with blue and green numbers. Usually we get a few cycles and then a bounce. Lucy seems very happy and content and has no diabetes symptoms and I am so pleased about that regardless of the numbers. Though having good glucose levels is important too.
My previous post:
http://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/...-112-3-117-8-146-pmps-187-5-104-9-101.140125/
 
I am a little reluctant to give Lucy her insulin with an AMPS of 3.9/70 as the lowest I have dosed at is 4.9/88 and that earnt a reduction in dose. I think I will wait half an hour though I did give Lucy a teaspoon of low carb food for the AMPS test. The AMPS test was at one hour and forty five minutes after food so I will wait a little longer and test again.
 
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unless you can't monitor tonight - go for it! You've shot low before and you know how much it can improve things.

I could be wrong, of course, but I don't see anything to suggest a dose decrease is coming. Before I saw your comment about the amps, I was thinking of suggesting that you increase back to something in between the current 2.0 and the 2.25u. Just because it looks like this dose isn't getting her into all green numbers. But you may be able to change that with shooting low tonight. :D

If you can't do it, I understand - just wanted to throw that out there for you to consider.
 
julie & punkin (ga) said:
unless you can't monitor tonight - go for it! You've shot low before and you know how much it can improve things.

I could be wrong, of course, but I don't see anything to suggest a dose decrease is coming. Before I saw your comment about the amps, I was thinking of suggesting that you increase back to something in between the current 2.0 and the 2.25u. Just because it looks like this dose isn't getting her into all green numbers. But you may be able to change that with shooting low tonight. :D

If you can't do it, I understand - just wanted to throw that out there for you to consider.
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Thank you Julie. I was thinking also about increasing to a fat 2 units dose and then we got this AMPS. It is day here and I can monitor carefully so I will test again soon and then either give the full dose if there hasn't been a drop in glucose level by then or reduce the dose one time as suggested by Roomp/Rand if glucose is between 2.8/50 and 5.5/100. I know Lucy will likely stay in green numbers for hours from now going by past patterns and so waiting too long will just deplete the depot and then it will take a few doses to get back on track. I will see what the next test shows in about fifteen minutes. Thank you again.
 
There was no further drop in glucose level so I gave Lucy the full dose of 2 units. Thank you again Julie.
 
julie & punkin (ga) said:
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you're welcome! hope she just surfs along in green for you today!
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I hope so too. You know despite my anxiety it took me ages to get the insulin right as I had trouble getting rid of air bubbles as I didn't want to give a reduced dose. I just wanted to make sure that we weren't going to have a dropping glucose level as Lucy can continue in green numbers beyond dose time with no insulin sometimes. But I am home all day and I thought I am not dosing the level we are at now but what it will be in a few hours when the insulin takes full effect and that is usually around +5 if we aren't coming down from a bounce. I just thought of the handy tip mentioned a while ago about removing air bubbles to draw a little air into the syringe and then expel the bubble so I will try that next time.
 
Voula I managed to stop the bubbles in the syringes by pressing hard on the syringe as I inserted it into the vial to draw up the insulin.
Lucy is looking great
 
Bron and Sheba said:
Voula I managed to stop the bubbles in the syringes by pressing hard on the syringe as I inserted it into the vial to draw up the insulin.
Lucy is looking great
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Thank you Bron. I will do that. I press on the plunger hard but I don't keep the pressure on as I insert the needle into the vial so I will try it as you do it and hopefully bubbles won't be so much of an issue. Yes my Lucy is looking good and doing well too. :cat::)
 
It looks like I might be giving Lucy a treat of high carb food at some point in this cycle because we are at 3.2/58 at +2 after AMPS. I will do another test soon.
 
I went to put some honey in some high carb food and Lucy was so ravenous she ate the honey off the spoon. So she got a bit more honey than I intended.
 
Wendy&Neko said:
It's early in the cycle, so that's OK. Congrats on the reduction. :)
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Thank you Wendy. Lucy has been ravenous with hunger with the lower glucose level but the honey and high carb has worked and her glucose level is up to 3.1/56 but I know I have to keep checking for a while yet to make sure it is staying up and particularly so because we are early in the cycle too.
 
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