Albert & Ninja
Member Since 2017
Hello everyone. I hope you all are doing well tonight!
I announce with much happiness that Ninja has hit his first green and blue streak since last year! I'm sure this is the best he's felt since being diagnosed so I am filled with joy over this. Now I am seeking advice from more experienced caretakers on whether to reduce the dose or not as this is uncharted territory for both of us from here on out.
A recap of my changes this week are:
I bought a ReliOn Prime and I must say I am pleased with it. I have read that it reads lows, lower than other meters. It functions very well in terms of soaking up the blood, you need a little more but it is not ridiculous. I recommend it to others who might be wondering. 100 strips for $17.88 will definitely help most if not all of you with an AlphaTrak 2 paying $1.00 a strip. Todays last two readings were done with the Prime so on the AT2 they would be a little higher with the AT2 likely showing in the 60 - 70 range for the last two tests. If anything a little safety space is good. I'd rather be 10 - 15 points too high than too low once under the 100 mark.
I switched to traditional syringes and I feel much more comfortable that Ninja is actually getting X units of insulin and I think the pen's mechanism can allow more or less depending on how hard you squeeze the button when you inject.
I opted for an increase of .5 units, increasing his dose to 5.5 units because he had been on 6 units for several days last year and had no adverse effects. In addition I had seen other members do this and seen good luck with their higher unit kitties. He had a blue and a green last year when on 6 units for a couple days and I dropped to 2 units the next day due to inexperience. This was during my pre-forum days. Over the last two days his BG has dropped. I am probably going to drop down to 5.25 units due to the green +8 52 being such a drastic drop from his PMPS of 469. I monitored him closely during this low. I fed a small snack at +10 when it had not gone up by much and he was hungry and asking me for food.
In hindsight I realize I should have given him 5 units when moving to the syringes to monitor numbers and make sure they were the same. My main worry tonight is that when switching to syringes from the pen that there has been a difference in dose over the past few days and that the pen was potentially not giving him an accurate 5 units due to me not priming it. I have read everywhere that priming was not necessary and personally I believe this because when the tip goes on the pen liquid drips out and that means the air is out of the needle. Is it a good idea to drop him to 5.25 units or should I hold the line where I am?
Sorry for this being long but I want the information out there for others who might run across this on Google!
I announce with much happiness that Ninja has hit his first green and blue streak since last year! I'm sure this is the best he's felt since being diagnosed so I am filled with joy over this. Now I am seeking advice from more experienced caretakers on whether to reduce the dose or not as this is uncharted territory for both of us from here on out.
A recap of my changes this week are:
I bought a ReliOn Prime and I must say I am pleased with it. I have read that it reads lows, lower than other meters. It functions very well in terms of soaking up the blood, you need a little more but it is not ridiculous. I recommend it to others who might be wondering. 100 strips for $17.88 will definitely help most if not all of you with an AlphaTrak 2 paying $1.00 a strip. Todays last two readings were done with the Prime so on the AT2 they would be a little higher with the AT2 likely showing in the 60 - 70 range for the last two tests. If anything a little safety space is good. I'd rather be 10 - 15 points too high than too low once under the 100 mark.
I switched to traditional syringes and I feel much more comfortable that Ninja is actually getting X units of insulin and I think the pen's mechanism can allow more or less depending on how hard you squeeze the button when you inject.
I opted for an increase of .5 units, increasing his dose to 5.5 units because he had been on 6 units for several days last year and had no adverse effects. In addition I had seen other members do this and seen good luck with their higher unit kitties. He had a blue and a green last year when on 6 units for a couple days and I dropped to 2 units the next day due to inexperience. This was during my pre-forum days. Over the last two days his BG has dropped. I am probably going to drop down to 5.25 units due to the green +8 52 being such a drastic drop from his PMPS of 469. I monitored him closely during this low. I fed a small snack at +10 when it had not gone up by much and he was hungry and asking me for food.
In hindsight I realize I should have given him 5 units when moving to the syringes to monitor numbers and make sure they were the same. My main worry tonight is that when switching to syringes from the pen that there has been a difference in dose over the past few days and that the pen was potentially not giving him an accurate 5 units due to me not priming it. I have read everywhere that priming was not necessary and personally I believe this because when the tip goes on the pen liquid drips out and that means the air is out of the needle. Is it a good idea to drop him to 5.25 units or should I hold the line where I am?
Sorry for this being long but I want the information out there for others who might run across this on Google!
you are definitely not withholding or starving by the two hour food lift before his shots 