? 6/30: Sammy AMPS 173; PMPS 93; +3.5 42; 77 - What Do you make of this?

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Tina & Sammy

Tina & Sammy

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Yesterday's Condo

Yesterday's numbers were a little crazy he was at 368 at PMPS. @Amy&TrixieCat I did not retest at PMPS, but I did test at +1 and he was over 400, but NDW makes sense. Why is it that I always forget these things. I guess it was the shock of seeing that number that makes all common sense go out the window.

He did come down a bit by +10.5 and AMPS is looking better today as well. Hopefully his numbers will continue to drop throughout the day and we will see some Green this evening.

I am off to training again today, so it is another long day and I won't be able to get any tests during the day. I have asked DH to test when he gets home at about +10.5, but some how he always seems to conveniently forget. I guess I am not going to be able to rely on him much. Which actually really sucks because sometimes I just need a break.

Have a great day everyone, I am a little tired this morning, because on top of getting up at midnight last night to test, I was up at +10.5 this morning to workout as well. I don't know how long that schedule is going to last, we will see.
 
I'm sure Sammy is just resettling in to the juice...not a bad start to today at all! Can you leave a big sign in a very conspicuous location reminding DH to test when he gets home? I have to remind my DH with all sorts of methods...e-mail, voicemail, notes....I usually don't generalize, but I guess "forgetfulness" is a guy thing!!

Have a great day...hopefully training is interesting so it won't seem so long!
 
Sammy is doing much better this evening. As it turned out, I left a little early today. We got done with more of the training than we had planned and the next thing on the agenda took more time then we had left in the day. So I was able to get home at +11 to get a test. DH ended up stopping at his mom's house after work even though I had texted him this morning and asked him to test Sammy, and he had agreed. If he had come home he would have just gotten home about 30 minutes before me anyway.

I am a little nervous about where he might go tonight though. This morning he dropped from 173 at AMPS to 147 at +1, and it looks like he just had a steady drop all day. His number looks to still be dropping at +1 tonight. I did give him a bit of 8% with his +1 snack so maybe that will slow him down a bit. I didn't give him any 8% this morning, or for the last snack last night.
 
What do you make of this? within five cycles of returning to insulin he is already throwing me lows? I know I don't want to decrease, but I also don't want to be unsafe. any suggestions for tomorrow morning. I shoot at 6:00 am Eastern, but at best I won't be able to test again until +10, I might be able to get in a test just shy of +1, but I need to leave the house by 7:00 am, and won't be anywhere near where I could come home for lunch to test. So there won't be any mid day tests at all. It really concerns me because he just started receiving the insulin again, so the depot has barely be stocked again and he is already running low. Granted at night he has the added push of fluids that he wouldn't have during the day, but at the same time with a 10+ hour window of no monitoring I know I won't want to shoot this dose if he is under 100 tomorrow morning. Although if he stabilizes he might not drop so big. Tonight he was still dropping from this mornings shot so maybe that gave him momentum. I really was not expecting that big of a drop after only a slight drop, and really a surf, from PMPS to +2.
 
well how annoying! So 0.25u is too much, apparently. I guess I'd try the 0.1u again.

Do you have a timed feeder for him or a way to get him food while you're at work tomorrow?
 
julie & punkin (ga) said:
well how annoying! So 0.25u is too much, apparently. I guess I'd try the 0.1u again.

Do you have a timed feeder for him or a way to get him food while you're at work tomorrow?
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LOL! Yes, I could put out the timed feeder tomorrow, but honestly Sammy eats better when food is just left out to graze. Sometimes I wonder if he goes looking for food and there isn't a spot open on the feeder with food he just assumes there won't be food until he sees me. What I could do is leave out plenty of food and then put some in the feeder just in case the other food gets eaten early.

I guess my question is, so I shouldn't wait for 3 under 50 or 1 under 40 to reduce back down? I know that is typical for a long term diabetic, but maybe the rules change because he responded so quickly on this dose, and after only 12 hours or so of NDW.
 
I am sort of wondering if the batch of strips I had been using prior to +10 last night had gone bad some how. I had noticed that the seal on the top was not tight and didn't really snap into place. Every time I went to get a strip I questioned whether it had been closed. Is that a possibility? Counting backwards, the first strip in the pack would have been on or around PMPS on 6/20/15. Obviously prior to that the problem might very well have been too much insulin.
 
Best of luck with this. Don't you just hate that work gets in the way?

If the strips are bad wouldn't you get an error message? I have no clue. Just wondering.
 
I gave Sammy about a teaspoon of gravy at 42, he came up to 52 within 30 minutes. So I gave him another teaspoon at that time. and tested an hour later and he was at 55, but I needed to go back to bed and I wanted to make sure he was safe, so I gave him another teaspoon of gravy along with his regular food with ⅓ 8%. With the three teaspoons of gravy I expected him to be higher than 56 at +7. He had eaten some of the snack I had left for him and the gravy at that time. When I tested at 77 he had eaten the all of the snack I had left downstair where he had been sleeping. There was still food in the kitchen if he needed it.

I am assuming that he is rising now so I might be okay to go ahead and shoot the full dose at AMPS, but I just don't know if I should since I won't be around to test today. I really think fluids gave him a bit of a push last night so maybe it won't be a problem today, but again I just don't know.
 
Fluids always made Trixie tank - I eventually had to start doing her insulin in the flank and her fluids over her shoulder because no matter how far I spaced them apart timewise, her numbers would always plummet.

It's possible something was up with the strips, too...do you have a fresh container to try out and see? We always follow the "when in doubt, throw it out" rule here...we certainly don't need any unknown variables when dealing with our kitties' health!

As I mentioned the other day, we have had other kitties here who literally needed that .1U dose...crazy as it sounds, .25U was too much, but no juice was too little. Time will tell if Sammy is one of those kitties!
 
Amy&TrixieCat said:
Fluids always made Trixie tank - I eventually had to start doing her insulin in the flank and her fluids over her shoulder because no matter how far I spaced them apart timewise, her numbers would always plummet.

It's possible something was up with the strips, too...do you have a fresh container to try out and see? We always follow the "when in doubt, throw it out" rule here...we certainly don't need any unknown variables when dealing with our kitties' health!

As I mentioned the other day, we have had other kitties here who literally needed that .1U dose...crazy as it sounds, .25U was too much, but no juice was too little. Time will tell if Sammy is one of those kitties!
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I started a new pack of strips on 6/29 at +10 PM.
 
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