05/01 Skipper: AMPS 374

[millerb]

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Day 4 of Start Low, Go Slow protocol

High BG over weekend, lots of vomiting of a new kind of canned food I tried. I have run out of canned foods to try that meet the criteria of low-carb, low phosphorus, no beef, no poultry, no liver or organ meat, or don't cause vomiting. I don't see him ever changing to a wet-food diet. Saturday's BG was fairly steady, but Sunday was up and down.

Have a call into the vet for weekly check in and to get a refill on syringes, since I am almost out and they didn't give me refills.

 

[Sienne and Gabby (GA)]

I'd suggest ordering syringes from either ADW or Hocks. Your vet will need to fax them a prescription but you'll only need the vet to do that once. They'll keep the Rx on file. (It also depends on where you live. I don't need an Rx with Hocks.) You can also order syringes that come in half unit increments.

Regardless of the protocol. if you shot a 48 on 4/19, you really needed to stick around and monitor. When shooting that low, you need to get a +1 and a +2 in order to be certain that numbers aren't heading in a downward direction. If you can't be home to monitor, you should not shoot that low, even if you are giving only a token dose.

I know this may sound picky but, If you are shooting a whole unit, it would help if you put in decimals (e.g., 2.0). Again, regardless of protocol, dose changes are generally made in 0.25u amounts -- not in 1.0u increments. Increasing by that much can easily put your cat over dose and/or set up a great deal of bouncing. It's very hard to know with the way you're dosing and not getting any mid-cycle tests whether there are low numbers in between the shots. I'd really urge you to get spot checks as often as you can.