? 02/24 Chase: 218@ +11.5

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Gill & George said:
As you are only getting a +1, I would give him MC for his meal, then check at +1 if he is about the same give more MC and leave MC out.

If he has dropped at +1 abort the cycle by giving him a good portion of HC leaving MC out for him.
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Thank you so, so much, Gil. You've been such a great help.
 
I am going to do a curve on Sunday, instead, since I'll be out tonight and can't monitor. That will give me more time to get him back on schedule, tomorrow. Then a Sunday curve. The following week, I'll have to get back onto Saturdays. :)
 
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I'm so disappointed in this evening's numbers. It's my fault. I should have never gone to this concert. I don't even know what to think, now. :( Looks like all the MC food kept his numbers up. I felt like we had made so much progress. I'm going to have to start working more hours, again, soon. Then I don't know what I'l do. No more +3 during the week. :(
 
Hey sandi,
You have made a lot of progress, the MC may well have kept his numbers up, or he could have bounced from the drop this morning.

The carbs will work out of his system soon enough. Try not to worry, tonight was about keeping him safe, and you need to find time for yourself too.
Hope you get a good night's sleep, and all seems better in the morning.
 
Thank you. Somehow, though... it seems like a lot of hard work has been undone. You can correct if I'm wrong, but his numbers haven't been this high for a while. He almost went into the pink, yesterday. Isn't it ALL about getting their numbers to flatten out? His aren't. And the luxury of me being able to do +3s is very short lived.. Then what. Are you supposed to only be able to tell anything much at all is on a weekly curve day when you stick them continually all day? I know they are unpredictable, but I'm worn out. I'm going to have to change jobs just to take care of him, at this rate, because they won't let me keep working this late schedule.

221 this morning. I guess his numbers make sense to those of you who are seasoned, but not me. Its enough to recognize the way the different carb foods affect their numbers. But all of the "food spike" and "bounce"... you can explain what it means to me over and over but I don't understand how interconnected it all is. :( I understand why it is... but now how, because it doesn't seem to be the same. Too much insulin and he bottoms out unless I do the emergency feeding of HC. Then that affects his next numbers. Then it happens the next day. When he does do well he earns a "reduction", but that doesn't seem to do anything all that consistent, either.

So... am I supposed to give him a mixture of LC and MC food with a <0.1u shot? I have to go to work again, today, so it' s the same all over. AMPS... then another one just before he eats an gets insulin. +1, +2, +3 and then I'm gone all day. I'm already putting off a trip to Phoenix to do a curve tomorrow. But I can't just keep doing this week in and week out. I have other commitments and they don't have to do with me.
 
Yes I would try the MC/LC cocktail, that will give him slightly higher LC, so it should help counteract a fast drop and in theory help flatten him out, as he does seem prone to fast drops in the beginning of the cycle.

Though he's in yellow, he does seem to have come down a bit from last night, are you shooting at 6am or 6.30?
 
Gill & George said:
Yes I would try the MC/LC cocktail, that will give him slightly higher LC, so it should help counteract a fast drop and in theory help flatten him out, as he does seem prone to fast drops in the beginning of the cycle.

Though he's in yellow, he does seem to have come down a bit from last night, are you shooting at 6am or 6.30?
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6:30. I only shot at 6:00 last night for selfish reasons. I had to leave if I wanted to get to this concert.
 
I'll try and explain the bouncing/dropping thing.

Chase seems prone to dropping quite dramatically at the very beginning of the cycle, it's not that he is going particularly low, but its more that he drops fast. To his body, that sets alarm bells ringing, resulting in his liver 'panicking' and dumping glucose that it has stored into the blood stream. This then results in the higher BG numbers and can last for up to 6 cycles, though in Chases case he has been getting back to normal (clearing the bounce) pretty quickly, in just one cycle.
So we'll see if he clears the bounce this morning.

So with the food and carbs what we are hoping to do is by having some extra carbs available to him in the early part of the cycle will counteract the fast BG drops, and if we can achieve that, then with any luck he will stop bouncing. Ideally his curves will get nice and flat and more predictable.
 
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