Silvina, I saw the 327 at +2, did you get another test? You don't want him going down so fast that he bounces up real high again. That's the key.
It is the 5th consecutive cycle of theI just tested at +3.5 and he was 273. What this means?
What we advise is that the ideal result desired when giving R is to bring down BG around 100 points.I remember one of the girls posting it was expected a drop of 100 points.
These are unknowns. You must discover this step by step, taking great care along the way. This is how you develop your kittys R scale. It is different for every kitty and can and will change over time with your kitty.In what time is that 100 points drop expected? Within what time after shooting?
great, what I have been noticing lately, is that I cant find any nadir... nadir desapear... there is not nadir..It is the 5th consecutive cycle of the 1.5u Lev dose and the Lev is showing you what it can do. As you can see, that small dose of R added momentum.
What we advise is that the ideal result desired when giving R is to bring down BG around 100 points.
These are unknowns. You must discover this step by step, taking great care along the way. This is how you develop your kittys R scale. It is different for every kitty and can and will change over time with your kitty.
Thank you Dyana!!I'm not Sandy, but R usually nadirs around +2.5 to +3, I think, and is done and out of the system around +5 to +6. Sandy correct me if I am wrong.
So, for a simple example if your shot times were at 12:00pm and at 12:00am, and if your kitty's nadir on Levemir is at +8 or at 8:00am in this example, then you do not want your R to nadir at that same time at 8:00am, so you wouldn't want to shoot the R at +5.5 (5:30am) as they would both have their nadirs at the same time. It's hard to explain and it varies with each cat, and sometime with each day. Sorry, if I just confused you more.
nadirs can and do move around from time to time. Some cycles will appear flat. As Markie approaches a better lev dose nadir will become easier to see.what I have been noticing lately, is that I cant find any nadir... nadir desapear... there is not nadir..
R onset is rapid however duration is short, ~4 hours for some, ~5 hours for others and sometimes a bit longer for kitties with IAA (antibodies that grab insulin as soon as it is injected, releasing it back into circulation after a variable and unpredictable length of time). The R nadir will fall somewhere in between. Since it varies from cat to cat close observation and documentation of your kittys reactions to R is a must.do you know which one is the Humulin R nadir in cats? aprox?
This is a best practice for starting and becoming familiar with R.I usually shoot R at the same time of Levemir. so nadir never touches.
I just noticed (and corrected) an error in my previous post - you are on the 5th consecutive cycle of 1.25u lev.
nadirs can and do move around from time to time. Some cycles will appear flat. As Markie approaches a better lev dose nadir will become easier to see.
R onset is rapid however duration is short, ~4 hours for some, ~5 hours for others and sometimes a bit longer for kitties with IAA (antibodies that grab insulin as soon as it is injected, releasing it back into circulation after a variable and unpredictable length of time). The R nadir will fall somewhere in between. Since it varies from cat to cat close observation and documentation of your kittys reactions to R is a must.
This is a best practice for starting and becoming familiar with R.
Please remember that using R to battle ketones while a diabetic kitty recovers from DKA is a temporary measure and differs greatly from the strategies (generally long term) used for kitties with high dose conditions
I'm happy to hear Markie has a good appetite. Im also happy to hear you are checking for ketones. with Markies history of multiple DKA episodes you should check daily for the presence of ketones and note the results on the ss.
Its great that you work from home and can monitor closely. Battling the formation of ketones is labor intensive.
I worked from home as well, allowing me to closely monitor BK. Thank goodness because he needed a lot of close monitoring.
It is not a bother to be here and help Sylvina. Many good people here spent many hours, day and night, for 21 months helping us get through our crazy journey. A journey from deaths door, through the previously uncharted territory of IAA, to a remission that lasted the rest of BKs life.
If AMPS is 400 or above, no more than 0.25u R with the morning lev shot of 1.25u (which will be cycle 6 of that lev dose) If below 400 do not shoot any R.
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I honestly don´t think it went down again. That big drop is due to the big dose of Rapid. It was too much. Ive been told to give half the dose I gave today. Rapid in Markies wares off very soon no longer than 4 to 6 hours as much, usually 4. And lately levemir dose seemed not enough. But imagining Im right, can that 443 to 273 drop in 3.5 hours be enough to cause a bounce? May be thats a bounce anyway.Hi
Let me copy and paste my comment from the Facebook page here: That looks like it might be a bounce. He dropped really fast into +3 - almost 200 points in 3 hours. Then I don't see any numbers between +3 and +6, so he could very well have gone lower again during those 3 hours before coming back up.
Please bear in mind that I have not used R for any of the cats I've treated...I'm just looking at the fast drop and then him finishing up high again a few hours later.
Thank you dear. Mostly sure it was a bounce. It kept going up so I had to give another R dose. this time less.A fast drop, even if it isn't into low (or even normal) numbers can cause a bounce. If Markies' body feels itself dropping fast, then that defense mechanism can kick in before he ever reaches normal numbers and send him right back up. I can't say for certain that that's what happened...it's just the way the numbers look to me. I don't know enough about R to help you with whether or not to give a second dose as late as +9 or +10.
good that you are there!!!!! I need you!! can you stay a little longer? I have a very basic question about how to charge the syringe.Hopefully the smaller dose won't drop him quite so far or so fast. If it still drops him too quickly, you may want to stop the R completely for a few days and just let his numbers settle...if a lot of these higher numbers are from bouncing, then he may do just fine on just the Levemir once you can break the cycle of bouncing.
GOOD FOR ME!!!Oh I'm going to be about for a while tonight. Roxi gave me a pre-shot of 78 and she's at 61 at +1. She'd been high for a couple of days after a fur shot, but she means business tonight so I could easily be here for another 4 or 5 hours yet.

We don't dilute the R insulin. We just measure the R dose (0.25 units in this case) using the BD orange cap 30 unit yringe.How do you handle this. Im mostly sure you don´t do all this stupidity.
We don't dilute the R insulin. We just measure the R dose (0.25 units in this case) using the BD orange cap 30 unit yringe.
I agree with Wendy. Insulin isn't meant to be diluted anyway. And, that I'm aware of, pre-filled syringes aren't really meant to be kept for later use either. If you want to give 0.25 u, then you would just draw 0.25 u direct from the vial. But if the R that you're using is diluted pretty close to 50/50, then your 0.5 u was actually closer to 0.25 u. And the 0.25 u you've given is closer to 0.125 u. So if you are going to continue using R, you will need to reduce the dosing accordingly if you're changing to drawing it direct from the vial.
If it's 9/19ths physiological solution and 10/19ths then it's pretty close to 50/50. So 0.25u direct from the vial is almost double what you would get if you gave 0.25u of the mixed solution. You will need to give somewhere around 0.1u or 0.15u to get the same amount of insulin straight from the vial. I don't know about deliberately pulling down bounces - that, to me, feels like a recipe for setting up continued bounces and having to keep using the R to pull them down which becomes self-defeating after a while - it would be better to level him out and stop the bouncing altogether. Can I ask why the decision to use R when he was only on a low dose of Lev that could easily have been increased? Was it advice from your vet? It looks as though his numbers were better before you introduced the R at all last year.
I do think that it would likely benefit Markies for you to get back onto one of the dosing protocols for the L insulins if you possibly can. And, in the long-term, I feel as though that would benefit you too...if Markies is doing better, I'm sure it will be easier for you to cope with everything else that's going on. It does occur to me that R insulin may be rather demanding of you as a caregiver right now too as it does require fairly intensive testing for safety. How would you feel about maybe going back to just the Levemir and working the protocol with help from all of us here? 
Wendy you will realize after reading that 0.25 is the dose that I gave Markies that was diluted and already made an important drop in less than two hours. So The equivalent to that 0.25 diluted would be arround 1 or 1.15. But its ok, I may load a little more and take away some drops.I have a vial of Humulin R in the fridge. I would just insert the BD syringe into it and withdraw 0.25 units. Much simpler. I kmow the vets will dilute R for even smaller amounts, but you should be able to eyeball the 0.25 units.
GOOD!!!I know you've been through a lot recently and I know how difficult it can be to keep on top of things like dosing when other parts of your life are falling apart.I do think that it would likely benefit Markies for you to get back onto one of the dosing protocols for the L insulins if you possibly can. And, in the long-term, I feel as though that would benefit you too...if Markies is doing better, I'm sure it will be easier for you to cope with everything else that's going on. It does occur to me that R insulin may be rather demanding of you as a caregiver right now too as it does require fairly intensive testing for safety. How would you feel about maybe going back to just the Levemir and working the protocol with help from all of us here?
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That's great news. I know we can get Markies, and you, feeling so much better about all of this. It will take a little patience to get his dose to where it needs to be, but I know all of us here will help you to figure out the best way to go about adjusting his dose.![]()


Dear you are getting confused with the time column. The dose is at the right. From thiw ss I see that his best dosing was 1.25. Look february 2016.Remission is always possible, but I prefer to work on getting a cat well-regulated as the primary aim. Once you do that, if remission is possible for Markies, it will happen given time. But we need to get him out of this cycle of bouncing to give him a chance to really show you what he can do. @Wendy&Neko - any ideas about dosing if Markies goes back to just the Lev? It looks as though, bouncing after lower numbers aside, he was doing pretty well on around 2u of Lev in the middle of last year. But I don't know whether the dosing would start over at base level after he's not had a particularly fixed dose in a few months now.
plus at that time I was using R plus lev not following any coherent protocol so that part of the ss should be bombed.Remission is always possible, but I prefer to work on getting a cat well-regulated as the primary aim. Once you do that, if remission is possible for Markies, it will happen given time. But we need to get him out of this cycle of bouncing to give him a chance to really show you what he can do. @Wendy&Neko - any ideas about dosing if Markies goes back to just the Lev? It looks as though, bouncing after lower numbers aside, he was doing pretty well on around 2u of Lev in the middle of last year. But I don't know whether the dosing would start over at base level after he's not had a particularly fixed dose in a few months now.