It would not work for my Ti-Mousse also. What is suggested is many small meals during the day and no food 2 hours prior AM and PM shooting!
Yes, looks like an active cycle! I'd make sure he eats enough but also will be hungry later for when you need him to be aka when he's dropping. But I hope Velcro stays nice and safe for you.
Yes I think SLGS would be my preferred method. Both due to my nature and the amount of time I can devote regularly to testing.
Thank you. This is so stressful! He mostly was on a wet food diet because I was doing a lot of syringe feeding. I thought it had to do with mouth sores but in retrospect in missed that sign for diabetes . His food was low carb (Sheba perfect portions) but he was also getting a gel supplement and olive oil to boost his calorie intake.Keep the food coming - forget that vet advice about twice a day - let's just focus on what your kittieh needs and right now it's food to keep his BG's from going too low...if he's hungry, let him eat his low carb - he's making adjustments to his new diet (I presume you used to feed him dry or other foods?)
Hang in there and ride that nice wave Velcro! You are looking fabulous today out there in the lagoon - try not to scare mama half to death with any diving today, k?
Basically, continued low numbers may or may not happen tonight.
I don’t - and also my syringes don’t have partial units. I have read the sticky on the method, will read again.
So I ideally want low numbers right, it’s just that his body hasn’t regulated that this is such a problem, right?But just a word of warning: you may be giving a smaller dose tonight but his cycle may still be influenced by the 1 unit dose this morning. So you may see lower numbers through the night. That’s the depot talking. But you also drained the depot last night by not shooting. Or Velcro may bounce and produce high numbers and let you sleep.
Cutey rest! Ain't that right
Thank you!
We have 2 other cats, one of which won’t touch wet food. The other will eat anything, and as fast as possible. So we’ve never free fed - but we did feed small meals 6 times a day. The meal times were convenient for work and bed, but don’t necessarily revolve around Velcro’s BG needs right now. I have until mid-August to have it sorted out.
Thanks. I’ve worked as an analyst before so using a data points in a spreadsheet to identify trends is a natural step! Will retest before dosing and yes, probably do a .75.Kudos to you for getting the spreadsheet, the signature, and the consistent dosing all setup and going. It gets easier from here.
Perfect numbers today. Agree with Crista on 0.75 to be safe. And the need for more tests to get some nadir patterns established.
I don't know about regulating the daily curve with food.
Ok I dosed him what was probably closer to 0.5 than 0.75 since my syringe doesn’t have half marks but I want to be safe - Velcro is too new for me to know what is going to happen.
Got him between 0.5 and 0.75 as I don’t have half marks.
Behind Velcro’s name? Yes, and kinda long and probably only funny to my husband and I. But when we were dating, and before we had Velcro, we moved him 4 hours away from where we were living. It was a long day by time we got the truck loaded, drove, and unloaded. My future in-laws came to take us to dinner and my MIL was talking about this cat their daughter had to Velcro in his cage. So, after such a long day, we were laughing hysterically and picturing a cat strapped against the back of the cage in a Velcro suit stuck to the cage. What she meant, but didn’t provide any of the detail for up front, was that the clip was broken and she had to Velcro it shut. No kitties were injured in the storey
Ya. HC food and honey within reach. Emergency vet 15 min away.
Well he does that too!
