12-03 Small Kitty - amps 137 +1.5 257 +5 400 +8 392 pmps 482 +3 421 +5 374 - Wild ride

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Good morning folks,

We have this morning another master piece of enigma from Small Kitty. After going
down at the vet with stress all around he's now giving a preshot lower then he was
yesterday in mid cycle (when he was going up) :confused:. When Dr. Roch analysed our
SS she was surprised (almost on disapproval) of shot given at low level.
This morning was borderline.. 137 on a pet meter is almost normal GL.
Will monitor closely.

The no extraction probability announced yesterday was kind a reassuring. Dr. Roch still need to
know what's under the tartar during the operation but her opinion is that teeth are fine.
Can't wait to know what the BW has to say, Dr. Roch said this will tell if anesthesia is safe
or not.

No BTB at the moment, duty oblige...

Hope all of you and your kitties have a nice Saturday

Yesterday

Sébastien
 
What a great start to the day!!! After a nice run of blues last night this is great to see SK still in the blues.

Just a comment. Last night at PM+4 you tested and gave SK some food. Then at +5 His number had jumped up by about 40%+. I am wondering what type of food you fed him at +4. He obviously came down again after the +5 since his AMPS is lower than the +5 last night, but I am wondering if the food caused that spike in the numberss between +4 and +5
 
Tuxedo Mom said:
I am wondering if the food caused that spike in the numberss between +4 and +5
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It was the typical raw food consisting of chicken carcass with chicken breast added + all vitamins and mineral.
Could be vitamin E or fish oil that helps bring numbers down ? With eggs this food has lots of protein also. Starting to wonder if I will not halt this raw thing. With bacteria proliferating it could be a source of dental problem.
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Small Kitty is rising and sleeping on the bed, think I'll joint him and sleep as well.

(Strange how adding 1 tablespoon of food (to prevent drop down of GL) made number
rising). Could be unrelated as well.
 
OK Thanks. I wasn't sure what food you had given last night at +4 since it said LC, rather than raw. Vit E and Fish oil act as anti-inflammatories to some extent which can help if there is inflammation but shouldn't directly affect glucose levels.


SK may be starting another bounce or he could be having a food spike. I would still be monitoring to see what happens at +3 or +4
 
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Nice start SK. Looks like he could be bouncing all ready from the blue run and his AM could have been him still on the drop from last night's cycle.

Hope he doesn't need any extractions but they sometime don't know until they get in there with good lighting and remove all tarter and then see a lesion under the removed tarter.

Enjoy your nap.
 
Small Kitty was indeed heading for a bounce... But !! Say But !

I think his system is learning that blue is no desaster and going in the zone
is not that bad after all. The pancreas is willing to get there but the hormones
are not yet comfortable with full acceptance.

Start to wonder is shooting at low GL is not making them panicking.
Maybe a reduced dose or NS would not make reaction less drastic ?
Better a slow transit to yellow then a rocket launch to the red.

Dr. Roch told me yesterday that they do not shoot 17 and under for
cats standing in the high zone :confused::confused::confused:

This is probably specific to CaninSulin.
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Photorecon said:
Dr. Roch told me yesterday that they do not shoot 17 and under for
cats standing in the high zone :confused::confused::confused:

This is probably specific to CaninSulin.
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Caninsulin is dosed differently than the depot insulins. It tends to bring numbers down a lot and quickly, within the first 3-4 hours usually and then the nubers slowly start to climb back up. Many kitties do not get 12 hours duration from Caninsulin, many only get 8-10 hours. You can get some pretty big bounces from Caninsulin since it tends to drop the numbers quickly....much quicker than the depot insulins


Photorecon said:
Start to wonder is shooting at low GL is not making them panicking.
Maybe a reduced dose or NS would not make reaction less drastic ?
Better a slow transit to yellow then a rocket launch to the red.
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The problem with letting your kitty stay in higher numbers on purpose, by reducing a shot for no reason or skipping a shot at a number which is shootable is that the kitty's body gets used to the higher numbers and when they do hit lower numbers you are still going to get the bouncing. SK spent at least 12 hours in good numbers yesterday and even though he is bouncing, the longer he stays in the good zone, the better for his body and the easier it is for his body to "accept" the lower numbers as being "safe". The few fortunate people whose kitties go off insulin very quickly usually had a poor diet of HC dry food, a very overweight kitty or had used steroids to treat another condition. The rest of us have to go through the sugar dance and keep dancing and changing our dance steps,
 
I agree with Mary Ann, keeping SK higher or less insulin is not the route to go. Sometimes when they stay continuously in higher numbers the body gets used to those higher numbers and can get "stuck" there. You don't want that. SK is moving as shown by the 12 hours he was in good numbers yesterday. Keep on keeping on and it is just part of the dance.

Did you ever get anything set up with the "dog walker" girl to come to house? I don't remember if she every got back to you.
 
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Did you ever get anything set up with the "dog walker" girl
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We had an appointment setup last week or the one before and she never came up, no reply to
my emails... Another girl replied to my email saying that she was working during the day and
could not come but had been looking for someone with no success. I asked her if she could be
available in case I cannot test feed and shoot and she asked where is my house. Would be nice
if she came back, if I'm not here there's nobody to take over.
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Small Kitty had enough of the blue, system told him it was time to go back to higher
altitude. Not worried, he's done a good job lately and will go back down.
As a reward and with high numbers (no risk of hypo) I let both brothers go out.
They'll have the night to run around the house and the neighbour’s backyard witch
they are probably missing. Shot was spot was behind shoulder disk so it should
have medium release cause muscles are on the shoulder disk itself.

Hope they will enjoy as the closer to the green Small Kitty will get the fewer the
wild rides will be :cat:.. until :otj:, if at all.

Good night everyone, thanks for reminding me that kick down to the
blue/green are better then a slow toxic rides :)
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The little brothers do not go very far. After supper I crossed the fence to look into
the neighbour’s backyard to see if I could find them. No sight of anything, no move,
no eye reflection, noting. Looking at every single backyards of the other houses in
the block showed nothing, same thing at the front of houses or street.

Guess who came back in when I arrived back home ? The little stealthy brothers ready for
food.

With a little bit of luck blue might come up by the morning, he's going down.
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