I saw in your notes that both kitties aren’t eating well. Do they eat the same thing? Bad batch of food perhaps? Has happened over here before. I hope you get to the bottom of it.
You test plenty for TR, I think you can get somewhere if you try it again and take advantage of the shorter times to increase. She’s a bit all over the place with nadir, isn’t she? It may even out when she’s in more blues and greens, or that’s the hope anyway. Some cats seem to pride themselves on being utterly unpredictable.
If you’re having trouble with lower numbers and getting her numbers up predictably, there’s a few things you can try. Asia also didn’t come up, much, with MC, HC or honey,
very frustrating. Karo syrup (corn syrup) was a game changer. HC gravy or honey would bring her up 10-20 points, if anything on the cycles where she had momentum to go down, fast. With Karo, I can get her way up if need be. Might be worth experimenting with Karo or maple syrup instead of honey. Those sugars all have different makeups of fructose, sucrose and glucose and some cats respond to some better than others. And you can’t forget the power of real, sustaining food (fat and protein), when the sugar wears off, it will be a crash without something sustaining under it. You want to be confident you can get her numbers up if you need to. It’s hard to do much else without that component in place.
Once you figure that bit, I think you just need to increase as often as TR allows until you’re seeing more of the numbers you want to see, looks like Martini is a bit too comfy in high blues and yellows. If you know onset, you can keep an eye out for a big drop and intervene before it becomes a below 50 situation, it might be easier than bringing her up from a below 50, depending on the momentum of the cycle. And by all means, do set a higher number if 50 makes you wary, ECID. I saw that you did that and put it in your signature, that’s good so people won’t ask why if you reduce a number over 50.
What I have done with Asia is test a ton (obviously), it was not a conscience choice, much was out of necessity because I didn’t know what she would do, but it also let me see patterns very clearly because I didn’t have to guess too much what was in the blank spots. If you can fill in some blanks and test in spots you don’t usually, say on the weekends, try to get some +1’s and +2’s, find out where onset is, find out how much on average is a food bump. If you can try to figure out her nadir, which seems challenging at the moment, then you know the hours she will likely drop and try to figure out an average of how many points she drops per hour in a more typical cycle. That way, if you see something out of sorts, you can intervene long before you are in lime green territory. I know Asia drops about 20 points an hour, on average, and I also know she does most of her dropping in +2 through +4/+5 ish. So when I see a 50 point drop, my ears perk up. Depending on what number she is coming down from, I give her some more food or carbs to slow her down and I test again in an hour to see if she’s continuing to drop or has decided to surf.
Another note, I just read in a thread the other day, I will try to find to post it for you, but someone experienced when changing food to add a slightly higher carb, she couldn’t really tell until an adjustment period of a couple of weeks. Just something to ponder if perhaps you’ve dismissed it as not working without giving a little time for it to settle in the mix.
Last bit of advice, try to post every day if you can, I know it’s more work and some days are very uneventful and that’s fine, but just to give a quick report and ask any questions you may have, it allows everyone here to get to know Martini and her patterns better and that can only help.
