05/15 Bambi AMPS (+1) 94, +1 100, +2 78, +3 67, +3.5 57, +5 61, +6 67, +7 68, +8 73, +9 91

[Caglar and Bambi]

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[tiffmaxee]

Nice cycle. Thanks fir starting a new thread.

 

[Caglar and Bambi]

Nice cycle. Thanks fir starting a new thread.

Np, here are my replies from the previous one to continue off from here:

Can you get an auto feeder?

Life was really easy before FD with my dry food auto feeder. I could not find a suitable one for wet food and I have 3 cats, I doubt it would work in my case. One of my cats doesn't eat wet food properly so I have to give them a mix, the other eats any remainder and I have to put Bambi in a room so that she doesn't eat the other's mixed food. I'm searching for a freeze-dried low-carb food but couldn't find a suitable one yet.

If she’s not hungry at +2 feed a little less at preshot. You need to slow her down and prevent drops under 50 because she needs long stretches of green.

She is always hungry. I'm pretty sure she will eat her normal pouch at AMPS and another whole pouch at +2 if I give it to her. However, after that she will get really hungry until PMPS and will be really cranky. Also if I don't feed the other two at the same time, they will also get grouchy. I would then need to feed them at different times and will need to feed minimum 4-5 times a day at regular intervals which will not be possible. I will try that in the next few days but right now I'm a bit pessimistic about how that will work.

You might also consider slightly higher carb food so you can give her more insulin.

I'm confused about this, wouldn't that lower her chances for remission? Is steadiness of BG the key here, the flatter her BG, the higher the chance? Interesting. She's on 8% right now, for e.g 10%? I was also thinking of lowering further, there's a 4% carb Whiskas which I can find. I tried to avoid Whiskas as a brand but if it increases the chances of remission I could give it a try...

Measuring small amounts can be challenging especially since the lines on the syringes are not always accurate. I had to increase and decrease in 1/8 increments so I used digital calipers. I will post a link so you can see if you might want to try them.

Thanks, I will look into this, seems it could be very handy.

 

[tiffmaxee]

Np, here are my replies from the previous one to continue off from
I'm confused about this, wouldn't that lower her chances for remission? Is steadiness of BG the key here, the flatter her BG, the higher the chance? Interesting. She's on 8% right now, for e.g 10%? I was also thinking of lowering further, there's a 4% carb Whiskas which I can find. I tried to avoid Whiskas as a brand but if it increases the chances of remission I could give it a try...

If on 8% you don’t want to increase carbs. Many feed 3% so would have room to go up. You are correct that you need to feed under 10% unless you want to prevent a drop. In that case you would add a little mc. You will need to experiment to see how you can get more cycles like today. A snack is just a couple teaspoons so if she’s needing a little food mid cycle that’s fine.