03/08 Eddie AMPS 302 +3 313 PMPS 202 +2 173

Well, here we are on another day of bounce or something.

Is there a happy medium to Eddie's 7.75u cycle, which sometimes goes blue (indicating no change in dose) but then presents in the yellows and pinks?

It's not that I'm impatient. It's that I think I don't understand how to make Eddie steady or if that is even a realistic aim.

Perhaps it's not a matter of insulin at all but acromegaly. I don't know.

@FrostD
 
May I ask why you didn't test again last night, or night before? Those were decent drops.

He's bouncing from that drop, and possibly a lower number after. What % LC did you give at +3 last night?

About the only thing you can do is slow down the drops, but last night you really wouldn't have caught it to stop the drop to+3, just possibly more drops after
 
FrostD said:
May I ask why you didn't test again last night, or night before? Those were decent drops.

He's bouncing from that drop, and possibly a lower number after. What % LC did you give at +3 last night?

About the only thing you can do is slow down the drops, but last night you really wouldn't have caught it to stop the drop to+3, just possibly more drops after
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I didn't test last night and the night before because a) I thought giving him food at +2 and +3 would keep him safe. I also get up around +7 or +8 and give him some food, which was what Wendy had recommended; b) I am exhausted. My work is very stressful (over the term there is no such thing as a weekend off). Every few days I need to have some sleep. As it is, I break sleep by giving him L/C (8%) 3.5 hours before I have to get up. Maybe I have to figure something out. If I didn't have to do it solo, it might be different.

Following Wendy's lead, I started testing @ +2 and +3 and was catching drops that took me into the middle of the night but I cannot sustain that more than 2-3 nights in a row (as in the 27th-28th) until I have to go back to +2 or +3 and rely on food then and 3.5 hours before AMPS.

Phew. Thanks, Melissa.
 
I can't remember suggesting getting up at +7/8 in the middle of the night to feed. If I was up then anyway, I would test. I think the feed suggestion was because you are giving him "dinner" in the late part of the AM cycle, but well before shot time. During the day, I would try a very low carb snack around +8, but not a meal, and give a larger meal right after PMPS test. Hopefully the later snack would tide him over to dinner. If he gets a larger meal with carbs later in the cycle, you are shortening the insulin duration, which means higher preshot numbers. And contributing to those fast drops early in the cycle.

So to summarize food suggestions, main dinner right after preshot test, and a small meal around +2 for both AM and PM cycles, to slow the fast drops early in the cycle. If he needs food later in the AM cycle (not to help the numbers but because he NEEDS FOOD), then do a very low carb snack or small meal later in the cycle to tide him over to dinner. Ideally you'd do something similar in the PM cycle, but if he doesn't NEED FOOD in the PM cycle at that time, then don't give him food then.

Any idea why the vomitting today? If they aren't feeling well, that can also cause a numbers increase.
 
Wendy&Neko said:
I can't remember suggesting getting up at +7/8 in the middle of the night to feed. If I was up then anyway, I would test. I think the feed suggestion was because you are giving him "dinner" in the late part of the AM cycle, but well before shot time. During the day, I would try a very low carb snack around +8, but not a meal, and give a larger meal right after PMPS test. Hopefully the later snack would tide him over to dinner. If he gets a larger meal with carbs later in the cycle, you are shortening the insulin duration, which means higher preshot numbers. And contributing to those fast drops early in the cycle.

So to summarize food suggestions, main dinner right after preshot test, and a small meal around +2 for both AM and PM cycles, to slow the fast drops early in the cycle. If he needs food later in the AM cycle (not to help the numbers but because he NEEDS FOOD), then do a very low carb snack or small meal later in the cycle to tide him over to dinner. Ideally you'd do something similar in the PM cycle, but if he doesn't NEED FOOD in the PM cycle at that time, then don't give him food then.

Any idea why the vomitting today? If they aren't feeling well, that can also cause a numbers increase.
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Sorry I wasn't clear: you had recommend giving food before I went to bed, which is now at +2 (if I'm lucky) or +3 if I am able to hang in there.
Thank you for the clarification regarding the food schedule. The only thing that will be different is him getting dinner at PMPS pre-shot and a snack at 4:30 instead of dinner.

He may have vomitted because he ate too fast and then drank water on top of his breakfast, which is kind of soupy anyway...He seems fine now but I'll keep an eye on him.
 
I thought that was probably it lol

I think the only other thing you can do to help flatten him is slow those drops, but they're not entirely predictable
 
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