7/27 Sister AMPS 113 +5 82 PMPS 107 Dosing Help, Pls

Ann, you want Sister to have BGs in the 50-80 range before taking her completely off insulin. The preshot numbers you are seeing are still a bit too high. You want to see all green numbers, and only a few in the 90s or low 100s. If the cat is ready to go off insulin, feeding a meal three hours before shot time will spur the pancreas into action to produce its own insulin and will bring down the preshot number.
 
You might want to switch to TR rather than stay on SLGS. With TR you reduce the dose when it hits 50, not 90. This will give you the opportunity to keep her in green numbers, which is what you want. You would have to test more at night, at least one test before you to go bed, in addition to the testing you do during the day.
 
PerfumedCatMom said:
Ann, you want Sister to have BGs in the 50-80 range before taking her completely off insulin. The preshot numbers you are seeing are still a bit too high. You want to see all green numbers, and only a few in the 90s or low 100s. If the cat is ready to go off insulin, feeding a meal three hours before shot time will spur the pancreas into action to produce its own insulin and will bring down the preshot number.
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GOT it. Thanks! I will endeavor to give her a snack at 4:00 a.m. The cats start trying to wake me then anyway.
 
PerfumedCatMom said:
You might want to switch to TR rather than stay on SLGS. With TR you reduce the dose when it hits 50, not 90. This will give you the opportunity to keep her in green numbers, which is what you want. You would have to test more at night, at least one test before you to go bed, in addition to the testing you do during the day.
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I thought the unbreakable rule was all wet food, no dry for TR. Sis still eats mostly dry.
 
Ann & Sister said:
I thought the unbreakable rule was all wet food, no dry for TR. Sis still eats mostly dry
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You're absolutely correct!!

I just have to ask....how do you measure 0.075? Usually if we drop below the .1 unit dose, we measure it by drops. Usually either 2 drops then 1 drop or just a 1 drop dose.
 
Chris & China (GA) said:
You're absolutely correct!!

I just have to ask....how do you measure 0.075? Usually if we drop below the .1 unit dose, we measure it by drops. Usually either 2 drops then 1 drop or just a 1 drop dose.
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Well I was asked this morning to measure the drops in the 0.1 unit dose. I got two drops. First one seemed bigger than the second, but not certain.
So since the 0.1 dose visually was "seeing light" (according to the picture under Fine Dosing) above the plunger right before the Zero line begins, I drew up that dose and then pushed the plunger to just kiss the zero line. I figure that is about one drop or more considering what is in the needle.
If anyone has a better idea...
 
Ann & Sister said:
I figure that is about one drop or more considering what is in the needle.
If anyone has a better idea...
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Sounds about right to me! We usually enter that as "1 drop". I was just curious how anybody would measure 0.075, especially with the wonky lines on syringes (unless you were using calipers).

Carry on! You're doing great!
 
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