07/18 Mom-mom AM 74, +1 58

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I was going to shoot that 74 this morning but, I decided to wait until after she ate and test her again. After eating she was a 58 so I am gonna keep an eye on her for now, with no shot.

I did another test a half hour later and it was 81. Should I shoot ??? A full dose ???
 
I was just looking at Mom-mom's spreadsheet - did you shoot last night? If so, how much did you shoot?

My biggest concern about shooting this morning is that the 81 is food-influenced. When the food wears off, she could drop. That, and given the data in Mom-mom's spreadsheet, today's numbers seem a bit out of place to me....unless you did shoot last night and got some tests showing her coming down.
 
I am sorry I forgot to post that 1.75 last night. It was quite a crazy night. We had awsome thunder storms. Anyway, that # was AFTER she ate AGAIN. I just gave her a little more to eat. Should I test again ???
 
When you stall, you're not supposed to feed. You're waiting to see if she was having a late nadir (low point) from the previous cycle, and you want to see if her numbers are rising, without food, before you shoot. By giving food, you have no clear idea of what's going on. At this point, I would think you'd skip the shot and wait for the next cycle.
 
I do get nervous and geed her more. I stopped with the feeding about 1/2 hour ago. She is just sitting in the window. I am gonna test again in about 1 1/2 hours, do you think that is ok ???
 
I know in the past, Mom-mom has generally continued to go up after skipping a shot, but I think I might be inclined to skip today, too, since she has eaten and her numbers are influenced by that now.

We had those storms last night, too....the kitties were a little unnerved!
 
I wholeheartedly agree with ChEMom's suggestion of skipping the dose. I do expect that Mom-mom may have higher #s because of the skipped dose. Just keep on dosing like normal, and that # will come down. Good luck!
 
Getting nervous when you see lower numbers is understandable. Testing even without shooting is a good idea, just for data gathering purposes!
 
I am so glad that you all agree with me in regards to skipping this shot. Thank You so much for your time to walk me thru this. Just an idea .... What is I test her around 12-1 and she is over 200. Should I shoot then or just wait until next round ? This is where I get confused. confused_cat
 
That's up to you, Laura. You can shoot then if you want to, BUT...if you do that, then her next shot will be due 12 hours after that shot. So unless you want to be getting up at midnight or 1am, I agree with the rest and skip the entire dose. If you test her about an hour before her next shot would be due, then you can shoot early. But shooting 5-6 hours late will really throw off your shot schedule.
 
laura, you have a few choices.

1. you can just skip this shot and shoot tonight on schedule. that's probably easiest, but you know she'll be high by then.

2. you can shoot this shot late, say at 10am. but then your next shot is due 12 hrs later, so that would be 10pm. then you have the issue of how to work back or forward to your regular shot time. If she's really high (over 350) at 8pm (+10), you could give her the shot 2 hrs early, but anytime you shoot early you really have to monitor. then her next shot is due at 8am. you don't want to do 2 shots back to back early, though, so you'd have to stick with 8am/8pm for a couple of days and work her back 1/2 hr per day to get her back to 6am.

3. you could shoot at ambg+6 today and then make your next cycle 18 hrs long too. assuming her shot was due at 6am this morning, you could shoot her at noon, then have her next shot be due at 6am tomorrow. that gets you back on schedule and keeps her from being too far off schedule for too long. that's also an easy choice.

I'd probably go with option 1 or 3 if i were you. your choice.

edited to add - i agree with Suzanne that you could take option 1 above, and then shoot a little early if she's high. that'd work too.
 
Thank You all SOOOO much for the input. Obviously I chose to wait it out, and of course she was "hi". I am still trying to figure out what bought that on to begin with. Because TRUST ME Iafter going over all my previous post's to see what I wasa doing wrong, I was all tooo ready to shoot a low number the next time it came around. But that was just too confusing confused_cat for me. I guess I just get nervous REALLY quick. Thanks again to all who stood by me with that situation. It meant a lot to me & to my little angel (Mom-mom) :-D :-D :-D :-D
 
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