Maury's Progress

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Well, that 401 gave you less pink...o_O. Somehow I don't think that was the direction you were hoping for...
 
Are you using the Reli-on or the AT2? That's a pretty low PS, although not too far off from 16 March.
 
Do you think he might be bouncing from his low the other day? I'm definitely not qualified to give dose advice, and have no experience with the higher numbers, but I wonder if he's being extra sensitive to the insulin right now? I think your idea to reduce a fair amount seems sound.
 
He bounced last night and this morning for sure. I definitely don't want to give too much. Thinking too little would be safer than too much or none.
He is also making sure I don't forget he has not had dinner yet.
 
Will you be able to monitor tonight? How far past shot time are you? If it was me, I'd probably go 1.5u, but then I've had two hypos in three days, so I may be a bit extra cautious right now.
 
Wait, is he still down at 144? I might go even lower on the shot if he isn't rising. That's a really low number.
 
Lol...it doesn't look like they've been on for awhile...but maybe they get email alerts -- the modern equivalent of sending out the bat signal? :cool:
 
I'm curious if he had a late nadir, or if this is the nadir and the insulin lasted extra long today. Lacking input from the experts, you may just have to go with your gut: skip, shoot reduced, or shoot after the food spike hits. The problem with the last option is that you're already so far past shot time that it would make tomorrow hard to fix, plus, there's more risk when you do that since it's a 'fake' number. So for what it's worth, I would either skip or shoot a small dose. Like you said, better to undershoot than to overshoot.
 
Hey! Sorry, traffic on the way home was a nightmare. Not sure what happened...but I will say 4 cop cars and 1 ambulance were going one way on the road, and a cop was directing traffic the other way...and I was stuck in the middle of all that! Very curious what was going on....yeah I think skipping would be a mistake at this point, since you want to capitalize on this progress!
 
Hope everyone was ok in that incident. Just got a +1 and he bounced :(. I had a a feeling he would but I wasn't as sure as the past few times because he never stayed so flat for almost an entire hour of stalling o_O.
 
Arg! Little stinker! Hopefully after the food spike is settled his numbers will come down a bit. He's certainly been giving you a lot of color variety in your spreadsheet lately!
 
Maury started off with a weird day today, has me worried of course! He barely touched his lunch from last night and his YA dry. Seems like he was feeling a little nausea at breakfast. Meowed like he was hungry, came and sat next to me while I prepared it, but when I sat it down for him he came over, sniffed it and took 1 or 2 bites and walked away. Was a slight wobble too. Went over a couple times to eat more and got less than half eaten and kind of looked disappointed :(.

Around his +3 he ate a few pieces of YA and his Friskies. Shortly after his test (maybe 30-45 mins), he threw up his treat. He was meowing a little, pacing around me, pawing at the blinds (usually his way of really getting my attention), licking the curtain. I may be reading too much into it but I feel like he was really trying to let me know something. I have a Vet appointment tomorrow morning but I don't know how much them checking his vitals will tell without additional tests. I don't even know what tests they would run.

This behaviour lasted about 4.5 hours. I got his lunch ready around +4, same thing with being excited to hear me getting it ready but set it down, sniff and walk away :(. He calmed down to his usual self and went to settle on his condo by the window. I served him lunch on the window sill and he ate almost all of it. Since then it's like nothing happened. I'm continuing to watch him to see if it happens again but I am torn if I should keep that appointment. I do feel guilty that I may not have caught his diabetes as early as I could have so if this sign is something starting, I want to catch it early.

Any thoughts are greatly appreciated!
 
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Maury started off with a weird day today, has me worried of course! He barely touched his lunch from last night and his YA dry. Seems like he was feeling a little nausea at breakfast. Meowed like he was hungry, came and sat next to me while I prepared it, but when I sat it down for him he came over, sniffed it and took 1 or 2 bites and walked away. Was a slight wobble too. Went over a couple times to eat more and got less than half eaten and kind of looked disappointed :(.

Around his +3 he ate a few pieces of YA and his Friskies. Shortly after his test (maybe 30-45 mins), he threw up his treat. He was meowing a little, pacing around me, pawing at the blinds (usually his way of really getting my attention), licking the curtain. I may be reading too much into it but I feel like he was really trying to let me know something. I have a Vet appointment tomorrow morning but I don't know how much them checking his vitals will tell without additional tests. I don't even know what tests they would run.

This behaviour lasted about 4.5 hours. I got his lunch ready around +4, same thing with being excited to hear me getting it ready but set it down, sniff and walk away :(. He calmed down to his usual self and went to settle on his condo by the window. I served him lunch on the window sill and he ate almost all of it. Since then it's like nothing happened. I'm continuing to watch him to see if it happens again but I am torn if I should keep that appointment. I do feel guilty that I may not have caught his diabetes as early as I could have so if this sign is something starting, I want to catch it early.

Any thoughts are greatly appreciated!
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Not sure what to say other than watch him the rest of the day and don't cancel the vet appointment just yet. See how he does overnight.
 
Fingers crossed it was just one of those things, and nothing to worry about! Keep us posted on how it goes at the vet tomorrow!
 
PMPS: 69 on AT2. Going to give dinner with 1T HC FF gravy lovers. No shot tonight. Didn't want to try and stall with this reading. Will test at +2 unless I feel the need to test earlier. No more odd behaviour just really affectionate and even had a good play session :)
 
Cancelled the Vet appointment since there were no further issues. I have a feeling it may have been something in the tap water so I used the water from the filtered water pitcher. I can't drink the tap water. Woke up in the night so I figured I should go check on him in case it was a sign and he didn't come upstairs at all. He was high but I was glad to see he had dropped 66 points by AMPS all by himself! :) Stuck with the F2.5 again and we're having a gentle curve. Thanks for checking in :bighug:
 
Hoping that with more of the yellows and blues, I will start seeing better improvements with his neuropathy. He is wanting to play a little more :cat:.
 
Been an exciting morning! Another No Shot cycle for Maury. I hope he doesn't bounce too high like the other night when I had to skip. His numbers were very much against the shot though, even after all the stalling ;)
 
Well dang! That was definitely a no shot morning...interesting to see what he does tonight!
 
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Cancelled the Vet appointment since there were no further issues. I have a feeling it may have been something in the tap water so I used the water from the filtered water pitcher. I can't drink the tap water. Woke up in the night so I figured I should go check on him in case it was a sign and he didn't come upstairs at all. He was high but I was glad to see he had dropped 66 points by AMPS all by himself! :) Stuck with the F2.5 again and we're having a gentle curve. Thanks for checking in :bighug:
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What is wrong with tap water?? :(
 
Yong said:
PMPS: 69 on AT2. Going to give dinner with 1T HC FF gravy lovers. No shot tonight. Didn't want to try and stall with this reading. Will test at +2 unless I feel the need to test earlier. No more odd behaviour just really affectionate and even had a good play session :)
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:bighug: to you and your furbaby!!!! Head bump come, on Maury
 
Phoebes, there are minerals and chlorine in my tap water (and most others), so they (the water people) may have added something else or too much chlorine and it bothered him. I have to drink filtered water from my Brita pitcher because I grew up on well water. It's the only thing I changed for him and he went back to eating his food :). Never used to bother him, so might just have to wait for whatever is in it to pass through.

Yes Rachel, I'm just hoping he doesn't bounce too high. Going to test around +8 to see how he's doing.
 
Yong said:
Phoebes, there are minerals and chlorine in my tap water (and most others), so they (the water people) may have added something else or too much chlorine and it bothered him. I have to drink filtered water from my Brita pitcher because I grew up on well water. It's the only thing I changed for him and he went back to eating his food :). Never used to bother him, so might just have to wait for whatever is in it to pass through.

Yes Rachel, I'm just hoping he doesn't bounce too high. Going to test around +8 to see how he's doing.
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That was a definite no shot number!!
 
With more time he just kept going down, like "Nope I don't even want a drop of insulin!" lol. Got my bounce as expected. Hoping he will come back down a little on his own before PMPS :)
 
Maury has been a little hungrier today and wanting more attention. I hope I am just reading too much into this. Also, been difficult for me to hold the same dose for AM and PM cycles. Any thoughts? I'm struggling trying to analyze his SS :confused:
 
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Maury has been a little hungrier today and wanting more attention. I hope I am just reading too much into this. Also, been difficult for me to hold the same dose for AM and PM cycles. Any thoughts? I'm struggling trying to analyze his SS :confused:
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The 2.75 u or thereabouts seems to be the good dose. I think they can "wobble" a bit around the narrow good dose range. Teasel is doing this to me now. Sometimes the approximate good dose will generate only blues as lows and sometimes a lime green. It's frustrating but seems to go hand in hand with bounciness. It's like their physiology is like a finely tuned race car and is easily disturbed.
 
Guess I will just try to hold the 2.75U area, so long as numbers permit, for now? :bookworm: It's like sometimes the dose lasts longer than 12 hours, but then he does bounce.
 
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Just try to hold the 2.75U area, so long as numbers permit, for now? :bookworm: It's like sometimes the dose lasts longer than 12 hours, but then he does bounce.
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Yes, try that. This whole thing is sometimes more art/intuition than science. :confused:
 
Hoping he's getting some healing time, even with these weird cycles. Going into month 4, I was hoping to see his neuropathy improving a pinch more. At least it has not gotten worse. Gotta look for the silver lining :)
 
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