Evie's numbers

Yes, it's been interesting to see how this is working out.
She seems to be slowly trending lower on the day cycle too so I'm curious to see where it goes.

Would you still increase dose soon or wait and see first?
Last time I went to 1.6u she had quite a steep dive, I'm just wary of causing any instability when she is doing well.
 
She’s doing very well and appears stable. She’s in fairly healthy numbers right now and you could keep her in these low yellow and blue numbers permanently, if you wanted to, and she would be a regulated diabetic. I don’t think you need to rush to increase. Her pancreas may help her out (as we talked about) or she may need to be in more green to let those beta cells heal. If you hold the dose a little longer and see that there is not a significant, repeated downward trend in numbers (meaning more than just a lower cycle or two) … you should consider increasing then. She’s still not reaching the SLGS target nadirs during the day and, at night, I just wish the green would last a little longer. Hopefully that will be something that smooths out as well.
 
She has had a steeper drop than usual this evening. I fed her an extra meal at +3.5 because she was getting antsy.
Hopefully, she surfs green this time instead of continued dropping.
 
The rate of drop has doubled in the last hour despite feeding a meal @+3 and an extra meal @+3.5.
She is asking for more now which is her usual behaviour when she has sharp drops. Gave her a bit more.
Getting slightly worried because her low-carb Pingo isn't slowing the drop but I'll have to decide in the next hour or so whether to try a drop of honey just to help her surf it.
Remember I'm trying to avoid using our mid/high carb foods because they are more inflammatory.

What do you think I should do @Suzanne & Darcy?
 
She still dropped from 109 @+4.5 to 71 @+5, despite eating a good portion of food at +3 (usual feed time), +3.5, and +4 (extra feeds due to sharp drop)
I know 71 is still very safe but I gave 2x drops of honey in a little more food at +5 because her food alone just doesn't slow the drops fast enough.
Is my thinking right that if her nadir is usually around +6 and she drops 40 points in half an hour from +4.5 to +5, she has the potential to drop a similar amount in the next half hour?
That's why I feel panicked in those moments... because I don't know how to encourage her to surf the greens without using higher-carb foods.
But that plan didn't work out anyway because all of a sudden those additional meals kicked in and she jumped up to 120 @+5.75. Honey is short-acting and shouldn't last 45 mins so it has to be the food.

At this rate I think perhaps next time I should just feed her a teaspoon of mid-carb liquid snack next time to encourage the surfing like we usually would and just see how it affects her inflammation and BG afterward. It may be a case of one step forward, two steps back. This is very frustrating.

I will also start a new thread as I see this one is nearly 50 posts.
 
AliceL said:
Honey is short-acting and shouldn't last 45 mins so it has to be the food.
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Probably a combination of honey with food and the peak action of the insulin wearing off. At some point the food will overwhelm the insulin, but not so much with LC… but she ate a lot so who knows? If it was just the honey causing the rise in numbers then the numbers may have gone back down after the honey wore off … although I have to say that in my own cat, when I gave him HC like corn syrup it frequently would just end up shooting him to the moon.
 
At least hopefully she didn’t get any inflammatory foods. I would hate for her to have to eat the stuff that’s not good for her when she’s doing so well!
 
AliceL said:
Is my thinking right that if her nadir is usually around +6 and she drops 40 points in half an hour from +4.5 to +5, she has the potential to drop a similar amount in the next half hour?
That's why I feel panicked in those m
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This is really difficult to predict. There are so many factors in play that it may not be a linear progression…. but we don’t know unless we see that she is always dropping at a particular rate that we can predict. I understand your concern.
 
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