6/22 Tiger Amps 143, token dose +4 96

[Deb and Tiger]

https://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/6-21-tiger-amps-hi-8-163.291354/

What a night and morning! Tiger went into blue last night at 1am (+5) and has stayed there until 12 noon (am+4) and then dropped to 96. He had numerous feedings of 20% and still would not hold or slow him down. We decided to shoot a token dose this AM. Of .5u.

I am not sure if we are doing the right thing but when he hit 96 and still falling we gave him syrup. Made in the heat of the moment and the libre showing the down arrow it made sense but now rethinking it, should I have let him fall below 90 and taken the reduction and then gave syrup? Up to this point I have tried to avoid reductions as he never does well with them but this time maybe he’s ready for it……I hate making judgement calls and would like to know, especially if he drops again today. It’s 20 minutes after syrup and he’s at 142. I thought the depot would have kicked in but never expected the sudden drop to 90s.

@Wendy&Neko

 

[Wendy&Neko]

The depot can influence 4-6 cycles after a reduction. It's quite common to see the larger depot in play the first half of the cycle following a reduced dose.

I would not have given him syrup. He is in very safe numbers and should start rising on his own soon. Save the syrup for much lower numbers.

 

[Deb and Tiger]

The depot can influence 4-6 cycles after a reduction. It's quite common to see the larger depot in play the first half of the cycle following a reduced dose.

I would not have given him syrup. He is in very safe numbers and should start rising on his own soon. Save the syrup for much lower numbers.

So I should have let him take a reduction then? Just verifying if it would have been better to take it?

 

[Wendy&Neko]

We have no way of knowing whether he would have earned a reduction. But we generally don't feed syrup at safe numbers like the 90's.

 

[Heike & BInie]

Oh Deb! I know numbers below 100 with the arrow pointing downward are scary and I was in the same dilemma many times to intervene or not. Sometimes I manage to prick her and everytime I tested a number below 100 on the libre, it was higher on the handheld. I saw that on other ss as well. There is no guarantee but it made me a bit more relaxed. But it is nice to see he had such a long string of ! Hope the sunday is a bit more relaxed!