3/14 Haley - AMPS 212, +5 129, +8 86, +12 107, PMPS 113, +.5 118, +1 118, +2 112, +3 92, +8 91.

Haleysmom

Haleysmom

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I didn’t remove the kitties’ food last might. I just checked on her and she was picking in the little bits that were left. I’m supposed to test her/maybe give her a shot in half an hour. It couldn’t have been much. What should I do?
 
Get a test and if it's really unusual, it may be from a little food bump. Kitties do unexpected things...I wouldn't worry about it.

Lantus is going to take about 2 hours to have much of an effect...so if she ate a little bit sometime in the last couple of hours it shouldn't have too much of an impact.
 
Bandit's Mom said:
Link to your previous post:
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Ty. I was going to do that but I just got up a few minutes ago and haven’t gotten to my laptop yet.

She probably Ate about a teaspoon of Friskies pate. She’s normally sleeping at 7o’clock and I usually have to call her to eat and she doesn’t come these days so I go get her and bring her to her food. I guess she was extra hungry today. I’m getting ready to test her.
 
Her AMPS is 212. She was at 202 at +18 at 1:30 this morning. I should go ahead and feed her like normal and give her her shot at .75?
 
Hi Shirley, are you able to stay up this evening to test? I hate to see you skip altogether...

Does Haley eat well typically? Do you have plenty of strips, etc. Since you're following TR the no-shoot number is 50 or lower...you've got room to work here.
 
Sue and Luci said:
Hi Shirley, are you able to stay up this evening to test? I hate to see you skip altogether...

Does Haley eat well typically? Do you have plenty of strips, etc. Since you're following TR the no-shoot number is 50 or lower...you've got room to work here.
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Hi, Sue. Fortunately, I’m a night owl. I was already planning to do 11:30 but I can do it anytime. She’s funny when it comes to eating. Either she only takes a few bites or she eats really, really well. Yes I have plenty of strips.
 
So, I'm hoping @tiffmaxee or some of the other late-night folks will pop by your condo; I get up at 5 a.m. for work and Luci and evenings are not good for me to engage with the forum....but I will say, I think you're ok to shooot .75 tonight - but don't wait until 11:30 to test (although I'm not sure what time you're shooting??)

Just to be safe and since you're new to this, please get a test at 2+ tonight, see where she's headed and decide based on that number whether to test at 3+ or 4+. She may go up or she may go down. So you'll want to test at 2+ because Lantus usually takes a couple of hours to kick in...

You have your hypo supplies ready? High and medium carb foods, plenty of strips and honey or karo syrup? Just in case?
 
sdirisio said:
She’s at 113.
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So it looks like she's rising a bit...go ahead with feeding and then shoot your usual dose .75. I made suggestions above on keeping watch tonight and tagged Elise to stop in and help you if she's around.

@Wendy&Neko are also west coast folks who are up later than me and if she's around can help you this evening.
 
Ok. Will do .75 now and test at +1 and + 2. Yes I have hypo supplies. Except for MC. I would have to mix LC and Hc.
 
Ty, Sue! Goodnight!

She’s eating well. I’ve noticed that she has a pattern of three nights in a row with stalling at her PMPS. Does that mean anything?

Thank you Chris for your help!
 
I’ll check in. This is what I thought might happen and why I suggested .50. Bring so new and doing so well with skips. I bet a reduction is earned tonight. As long as she eats a few teaspoons when she needs to be propped up that’s all you need.

Bhooma will be around when I sign off so you will be coveted.
 
Ty, Elise. What do you mean “when she needs to be propped up”? I haven’t heard of this. Getting upset now.
 
Ok, ty. She’s still at 118 at +1.

But she’s been going up since her +8 86 so why are we concerned now and we weren’t concerned then? Her numbers are going up not down so I’m confused.

Should I feed her again?
 
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sdirisio said:
Her numbers are going up not down so I’m confused.
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It's normal for the number to go up at +1 because you've just fed her and food raises the BG number. The only reason we asked you to get a +1 and +2 was just to keep a close eye on her. If she'd dropped at +1, we might have suggested feeding a tiny bit of higher carb food.

Our goal is to get her into good numbers and stay there as long as possible. That means 50-120 with most of those numbers under 100.
 
Yes, I understand about keeping a close eye on her and that’s totally fine. Yeah , she went up from 113 to 118. I’ll be testing her again at +2.

So, dropping low is when her numbers get higher? Ty, Chris!
 
Don’t feed a lot at any one time so we keep her hungry. She’s nice and safe.
Sorry I didn’t explain what I meant. Glad Chris did.
 
Ok. So, if she’s not asking for food, don’t even bother offering anything to her? She’s sleeping right now. And before I go to bed I’ll take up all the phone so that she won’t eat anything two hours before I give her her shot in the morning. I have three kitties so there’s three dishes out.
It’s ok. Ty!
 
Let’s feed her based upon the bg, a little after each test. Several mini meals. Let’s see the +2 as that will be a good clue to how the cycle will go.
 
I predict you're going to need to test for awhile tonight but we won't know for sure until we know for sure.

We keep trying to get these cats of ours to read the rules but they just tear them up and scatter them all over the house.
 
Ok. I’ll do whatever I need to do. Thank you to you all for being there.

I won’t tell you what my Valentino (my old man) would do on those papers. I take that back... on the floor, right next to the papers, lol.
 
She went down from 118 to 112 at +2. I’ll feed her a smidge.

Am I testing again at +3?

So does it mean the higher the number the lower her glucose goes Isabella and it gets more dangerous is her glucose gets lower?
 
That’s pretty flat. She may prove me wrong. Feed her a couple teaspoons of lc. I would get a +3.

If she drops under 50 she needs high carb food or syrup. If she starts to drop we will feed her to keep that from happening.
 
That’s good to hear. Ok will feed her a little more. Will get a +3.

I’m confused. Why are we worried about her if she’s at 118 but we weren’t worried about her when she was 86? Just so I understand.
 
It’s early in the cycle. This is a good PMPS and +2 but you haven’t shot both cycles for a few nights so we don’t know if she will drop lower later in the cycle. We aren’t worried at all now. We just don’t have data to know what she will do so we need to test more to see.

The 86 was at +8 and that was her nadir, late in the cycle. She started lower tonight so we need to keep an eye on her. Make sense?
 
sdirisio said:
Why are we worried about her if she’s at 118 but we weren’t worried about her when she was 86? Just so I understand.
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it depends on when the shot is given....the 86 was 8 hours after the AM shot so should be starting to wear off soon(usually)....the 118 was right before you would be giving her a shot of insulin
 
You mean the 86 was early in the cycle? But, why wouldn’t we be concerned?
Chris & China (GA) said:
it depends on when the shot is given....the 86 was 8 hours after the AM shot so should be starting to wear off soon(usually)....the 118 was right before you would be giving her a shot of insulin
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Ok, ty, Chris. Am I testing every hour until you guys tell me not to?
 
sdirisio said:
You mean the 86 was early in the cycle? But, why wouldn’t we be concerned?
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no, the 86 was at +8.....that's 8 hours since the morning shot was given. Lantus usually nadirs around +6 (nadir is the lowest point in the cycle no matter when it happens, but it's usually around mid-cycle) so by +8, we'd usually figure the AM shot is starting to wear off soon and her numbers should start to climb (which is exactly what happened)

86 is a wonderful and safe number.
 
I tested her at +3. She went down from 112 to 92 and gave her a snack.

1. Am I doing any more testing tonight?

2. If she’s hungry, before I go to bed, can she have what she wants or should I just give her a little snack? I’ll take up the food before I go to bed so she can’t eat close to her shot time, in the morning, like she did this morning.
 
sdirisio said:
1. Am I doing any more testing tonight?
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yes please since we don't have any previous data on her when you shoot a lower PMPS. She's not dropping fast (which is good) but I'd plan on getting at least a +5 (if you have an alarm you'll wake up to, you can snooze)

sdirisio said:
If she’s hungry, before I go to bed, can she have what she wants or should I just give her a little snack? I’ll take up the food before I go to bed so she can’t eat close to her shot time, in the morning, like she did this morning.
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Will depend on where she is later in the cycle, but I can almost promise you'll at least leave her out a snack
 
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