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Cherish Gallagher said:
Grrrr +8 414. Should I have given her more insulin this morning?
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It's possible you dropped the AM dose too much. If you look at the other yellow AM and PM pre shots on your SS you can see that you gave anywhere from 3 u to 4 u on similar numbers. In a few of those cases you have data afterward to see the effect but not all. This is one reason why another test between AM and PM doses is good to get. This also illustrates the value of the SS as a dosing reference guide - you can go back to similar PSs, see what you gave and see the result.
 
Kris & Teasel said:
It's possible you dropped the AM dose too much. If you look at the other yellow AM and PM pre shots on your SS you can see that you gave anywhere from 3 u to 4 u on similar numbers. In a few of those cases you have data afterward to see the effect but not all. This is one reason why another test between AM and PM doses is good to get. This also illustrates the value of the SS as a dosing reference guide - you can go back to similar PSs, see what you gave and see the result.
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Was going based off of the sliding scale another member suggested I use. I know this is going to take time and trial and error but I'm so hard on myself. When I saw 414 I felt like a failure.
 
Cherish Gallagher said:
Was going based off of the sliding scale another member suggested I use. I know this is going to take time and trial and error but I'm so hard on myself. When I saw 414 I felt like a failure.
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That's right - I forgot. I was basing my comments on what I see in the spreadsheet. Please don't be too hard on yourself. This is a hard thing to learn and it takes a lot of time and data to get better at dosing. Every cat is different in its responses to insulin doses. It's a good exercise to spend time studying the data you already have to see what it shows and then refer back to it when trying to decide on a dose. A sliding scale can work well but you need to also have a good feel for what Angel might do. This is very much an ECID game - "Every Cat Is Different."
 
Kris & Teasel said:
That's right - I forgot. I was basing my comments on what I see in the spreadsheet. Please don't be too hard on yourself. This is a hard thing to learn and it takes a lot of time and data to get better at dosing. Every cat is different in its responses to insulin doses. It's a good exercise to spend time studying the data you already have to see what it shows and then refer back to it when trying to decide on a dose. A sliding scale can work well but you need to also have a good feel for what Angel might do. This is very much an ECID game - "Every Cat Is Different."
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Thank you.
 
Kris & Teasel said:
It's possible you dropped the AM dose too much. If you look at the other yellow AM and PM pre shots on your SS you can see that you gave anywhere from 3 u to 4 u on similar numbers. In a few of those cases you have data afterward to see the effect but not all. This is one reason why another test between AM and PM doses is good to get. This also illustrates the value of the SS as a dosing reference guide - you can go back to similar PSs, see what you gave and see the result.
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those similar preshots were a long time ago... you can't really use them as reference anymore.... really only the last 5-7 days are relevant to determine dose, and she hasn't had any 200 preshots in two weeks. So now we know that 2 u at 240 isn't enough (for now), and we can adjust the scale. The scale is evolving, it doesn't stay stagnant. every few days, the data has to be reviewed and changes determined. today valuable data was collected.
 
Cherish Gallagher said:
Grrrr +8 414. Should I have given her more insulin this morning?
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so you collected valuable data today, and now we can use that information to adjust the scale. I think the higher numbers the dose is still good, and the lower end it needs to come up. (Every few days reevaluate the effectiveness of the dose).

so lets try:
150-175 1
175-190 1.5
190-215 2
215-240 2.5
240-280 3
280-310 3.25
310-325 3.5
325-400 3.75
400+ 4
 
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JanetNJ said:
those similar preshots were a long time ago... you can't really use them as reference anymore.... really only the last 5-7 days are relevant to determine dose, and she hasn't had any 200 preshots in two weeks. So now we know that 2 u at 240 isn't enough (for now), and we can adjust the scale. The scale is evolving, it doesn't stay stagnant. every few days, the data has to be reviewed and changes determined. today valuable data was collected.
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This makes total sense :)
 
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