Jackson - ketones negative

Friday: AMPS 360, +6 321
No ketone test (yet) today. He usually only pees once in the morning and sometimes it is before I wake up.

Increasing to 2 units tomorrow. Hoping my car will be back from the mechanic by then for just in case.
 
Saturday - new dose 2.0 units
AMPS 414, +3 356, +6 427
Come on insulin work!!
Is my insulin bad? Maybe I'll try a different pen.
Is this new dose wonkiness? It seems like the more insulin I give him the higher he goes.
Or was it the 8 pokes that it took to get that +6?

In other news: My car has been at the mechanics since Thursday. I saw the brake light on on Wednesday. They had to replace all the brake lines, and then they saw that the fuel line needed to be replaced and told me I was lucky it didn't catch on fire. I am hoping to get it back today. I am not looking forward to driving through the snow to go get it, but I need a car.
 
New Dose Wonkiness is a possibility, though cycle 2 more possible start.

How is Jackson feeling acting? His peeing volume down any? Grooming? Playing?

Good luck with the car, you'll feel so much better knowing all that is fixed now.
 
Wendy&Neko said:
New Dose Wonkiness is a possibility, though cycle 2 more possible start.

How is Jackson feeling acting? His peeing volume down any? Grooming? Playing?

Good luck with the car, you'll feel so much better knowing all that is fixed now.
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My car has to stay another day at the shop. The mechanic drove me home and Jackson didn't get his shot until +13.5.
He wrestles with his little 1.5 year old sister, and is always hungry. He only drinks for a few seconds a day (sparingly) from his bowl, but I add water to all his six meals per day. He seems to pee once per day in the morning, and the past two days it must be before 5 or 6 am when I get up. The volume is a lot, but he seems to save it for once a day.
His last test it took 4 pokes and his ear is so sore. He hates the pokes, but he always gets treats and then food after so far.
 
Sunday: AMPS 410, +4.5 351.
I fell deeply asleep and only got a +6 last night of 292 (at least I saw yellow).
I tried to poke a couple holes to get both the glucose with the Relion, and ketones with the NovaMax but got ER04 on the NovaMax. I really wish he would pee when I'm awake and watching.
Lots of snow here, and I'm supposed to get my car back after work.
 
Question: I forgot to ask. I put a teeny dab of Neosporin with Pain Relief cream on his ear where I have been poking after I did the two tests just now. Will that affect the next tests if it's on his ear? I basically test in the same area on the same ear each time. I would like to move the tests around more or to the other ear.
 
Don't use the Neosporin with Pain Relief (or anything similar) 🫣 The pain medicine is harmful to cats. Plain Neosporin is fine but you really don't need it. Cat ears heal just fine on their own even after years or being poked. You can alternate ears and the poke spot.
 
Monday AMPS 344
I was suspecting he was peeing at 3:00am and I did a BG test at 2:30am and sure enough he peed at 2:45am and I was awake. Urine ketones negative.
 
Tuesday - AMPS 347
Urine ketones negative. He peed at 6:00am this morning Yay! (it wasn't 3:00am, like normal).

I did not raise his dose this morning. Because I am still trying to get used to sleeping in between night time tests (sometimes I wake up at 2:00am to test and can't get back to sleep at all until the next night), and thus exhausted I fell asleep when his PMPS was due last night and woke up to all these alarms going off. His PMPS was late at 7:37pm and I shot this morning at 7:00am (tomorrow at 6:30am, hopefully). I found his insulin pen was left out all night last night, so I started a new pen this morning.

In other news; I finally got my car back yesterday and it is such a relief to have a vehicle should I need it. It's supposed to be a Feels Like of 1 degree outside this morning.
 
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