HELP! Not sure what to do

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Anne Biddle

Anne Biddle

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so Truffles has been without insulin for 2 weeks tomorrow. He’s had amps at 200 odd for the last few days but it’s dropped naturally. Last night 83. This am 335! Should I retest in 3 hours and see what it’s doing. I don’t want to give a shot if he’s going to drop on his own and risk a hypo? Advice please
 
Thanks. I’m swaying towards not giving anything and seeing if he drops as he has been doing. I feel quite sick about it.
 
That’s my thinking. Thank you for confirming. I know he is having skin issues again so I’m guessing that could be affecting it.
 
When are you feeding him?
Can you give him some food maybe three hours before his AMPS to see if his pancreas will bring down his BSL at AMPS?
Also record when you feed him during the day and then if you can take BSLs two or three hours after the food it will tell us if his pancreas is working.
 
His pancreas does appear to be working as his BG drops after feeding. He’s fed after his am reading and you can see from his ss it starts to drop. I then test about +6 after food more food and then his pm test is at 9 when he has more food. As you can see it steadily drops during the day being 83 last night.
 
Anne Biddle said:
His pancreas does appear to be working as his BG drops after feeding. He’s fed after his am reading and you can see from his ss it starts to drop. I then test about +6 after food more food and then his pm test is at 9 when he has more food. As you can see it steadily drops during the day being 83 last night.
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I did wonder if the AMPS is higher because he doesn't get food overnight. I suggested feeding a few hours before AMPS to see if it might bring down the AMPS number. Do you have an automatic feeder that you could set for early in the morning to open with some food? Would save you getting up.
 
He really is fussing about his skin so I’m really thinking that isn’t helping. Plus not having food overnight. I’m usually up early with the dogs so I can give them half their breakfast then and test and feed three hours later. See if that helps
 
So plus 4 from food dropped to 250 on his own. Happy to see it coming down again. Have given him a small amount of food. Will test again in a couple of hours and he’ll have the rest of his food.
 
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