Clarice & Mami Cat
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I hope you and kitties are all doing well this week
I wanted to share how incredibly happy I was on August 31. I finally feel like a responsible adult woman
I successfully did an ear prick on Mami Cat, using several of the helpful tips you all gave me. I’m using the SoftClix lancet (@squeem3 
) and Mami doesn’t seem to mind the prick at all. I still need someone to hold her for me, though. Otherwise, she moves just enough that I can’t keep the lancing device against her ear for a few seconds. Thank you all so much for all the videos and suggestions!! A special thanks to Marje, too! I was so happy! And the handheld meter gave me readings very close to the Libre 1 again, which made me feel much more reassured.
Yesterday, she had 3 LOWS at her typical times - she dives deeply with LC - and then the Libre 1 failed for safety reasons. I tried to do the ear poke, and when I finally got a beautiful drop, the test strip gave me an error.
Anyway, it seems the Libre 1 is actually quite close to reality. Yesterday she got a new one. Next time, I’ll give her more carbs as soon as I see the first LOW, to hopefully avoid all of this.
I’d also like to ask you all about 2 aspects I’ve been noticing with Mami’s curve. (Wendy, maybe you can help me again. I really appreciate it.)
@Wendy&Neko
Recently, with just 1 drop of Lantus, she spends most of the day and night below 90, and over the past few days she has actually been spending a lot of time between 53 and 62. I do get a little worried when I see her staying around 53 for a while. She stays ok... but not super well: very quiet, sleepy, with low energy. (Example: August 31 and September 1.)
She is eating LC food, and after AMPS, I feed her and her BG goes down even more. Everytime I feed her LC during the day, her BG goes down. Seriously.
Today, at AMPS, for the first time, I gave her MD (if as-fed) / HC (if %ME) renal wet food, trying to soften her morning curve, because she is really a diver and drops quite a lot during this period. It indeed changed her curve and gave me higher numbers, but still green ones in the morning. Her energy levels are so much better in higher greens! She was super active and alive.
My first question is: with LC food, if she stays in the green after AMPS without the DROP - staying below 90 all the way until PMPS - do I really need to give the DROP in the morning?
I was thinking about giving the drop only at PMPS, if she stays in the green all morning and afternoon without insulin. Otherwise, my second option would be to “feed the curve”: I would have to give her renal food just so that I can give the drop in the morning. But I’m not really seeing the point of doing that if she can spend the entire day below 90 without the DROP and while eating LC food.
So, basically, my two options seem to be:
What would you suggest?
Current scenario (picture may help) and final question: the only time she still really goes high is very early in the morning. Around 3 a.m., approximately +9, she often has a sudden big rise to 200–230
Other times, it happens about 30 minutes before AMPS. When I wake up and feed her LC at +9, it usually drops quite a lot almost immediately, and feeding her at +9 every night has helped bring her AMPS down. Since I started doing this, as Wendy taught me, the early-morning rise has improved quite a bit. On August 28 and 29, she even went two nights in a row without it for the first time! I feel this early-morning rise is basically the reason her AMPS is still usually above 100. Without it, she would probably stay in the green range almost 24 hours a day. Could it be dawn phenomenon, counter-regulatory hormones, her circadian rhythm, or simply something that is characteristic of her? Maybe all of them together...? I don't know.
Immediately after AMPS, her BG drops again - and it drops a lot, whether she had the 1 drop or not.
I’m still hoping this early-morning spike will eventually disappear. And if it turns out to be something that is simply characteristic of her, I suppose the important thing is that her BG comes back down quickly after AMPS and gets back into the green range. Have you seen other kitties do this?
She is also taking a compound called Glycoxil, which is supposed to help with insulin resistance, and I think I’ve noticed that it has affected her curve and given me lower numbers, indeed.
So, my second question is: do you have any thoughts or suggestions about this pattern (above), and is there anything I could do to help break this cycle and eventually get rid of the early-morning rise? It happens so fast! And then it drops just as fast! It only happens during the early-morning hours, before AMPS. Throughout the day, she stays in the low green range.
If I can somehow get this early-morning rise to stop happening, she should hopefully start having green AMPS numbers as well, which is my goal at this stage.
I honestly feel like her higher AMPS is almost a prank or "fake news", because by +1:30 after AMPS, her numbers have already dropped a lot, and then she stays in the green range pretty much all day. So her AMPS really doesn’t tell the story of what happens during the rest of the day - it mostly reflects that "special" early-morning rise that comes out of a sudden.
There are also other updates about her overall situation - the Mycoplasma, her kidneys, and so on - but this post would become even longer, so I’ll stop here for now.
Thank you so much!!
A picture is worth a thousand words... Here’s how quickly her early-morning rise shoots up and then comes back down after LC food.
Actually, I thought about changing the timing of her drops to make them more strategic.
Or maybe feed her twice during the night, a little later before going to bed, so the fasting gap isn’t as long.
I hope you and kitties are all doing well this week
I wanted to share how incredibly happy I was on August 31. I finally feel like a responsible adult woman
I successfully did an ear prick on Mami Cat, using several of the helpful tips you all gave me. I’m using the SoftClix lancet (@squeem3 ) and Mami doesn’t seem to mind the prick at all. I still need someone to hold her for me, though. Otherwise, she moves just enough that I can’t keep the lancing device against her ear for a few seconds. Thank you all so much for all the videos and suggestions!! A special thanks to Marje, too! I was so happy! And the handheld meter gave me readings very close to the Libre 1 again, which made me feel much more reassured.Yesterday, she had 3 LOWS at her typical times - she dives deeply with LC - and then the Libre 1 failed for safety reasons. I tried to do the ear poke, and when I finally got a beautiful drop, the test strip gave me an error.
Anyway, it seems the Libre 1 is actually quite close to reality. Yesterday she got a new one. Next time, I’ll give her more carbs as soon as I see the first LOW, to hopefully avoid all of this.I’d also like to ask you all about 2 aspects I’ve been noticing with Mami’s curve. (Wendy, maybe you can help me again. I really appreciate it.)
@Wendy&Neko
Recently, with just 1 drop of Lantus, she spends most of the day and night below 90, and over the past few days she has actually been spending a lot of time between 53 and 62. I do get a little worried when I see her staying around 53 for a while. She stays ok... but not super well: very quiet, sleepy, with low energy. (Example: August 31 and September 1.)
She is eating LC food, and after AMPS, I feed her and her BG goes down even more. Everytime I feed her LC during the day, her BG goes down. Seriously.
Today, at AMPS, for the first time, I gave her MD (if as-fed) / HC (if %ME) renal wet food, trying to soften her morning curve, because she is really a diver and drops quite a lot during this period. It indeed changed her curve and gave me higher numbers, but still green ones in the morning. Her energy levels are so much better in higher greens! She was super active and alive.
My first question is: with LC food, if she stays in the green after AMPS without the DROP - staying below 90 all the way until PMPS - do I really need to give the DROP in the morning?
I was thinking about giving the drop only at PMPS, if she stays in the green all morning and afternoon without insulin. Otherwise, my second option would be to “feed the curve”: I would have to give her renal food just so that I can give the drop in the morning. But I’m not really seeing the point of doing that if she can spend the entire day below 90 without the DROP and while eating LC food.
So, basically, my two options seem to be:
- Keep her on LC food and skip the morning DROP if she is already staying green without it.
- Give the DROP, but then I would need to add more carbs to her diet to keep her from diving too low.
What would you suggest?
Current scenario (picture may help) and final question: the only time she still really goes high is very early in the morning. Around 3 a.m., approximately +9, she often has a sudden big rise to 200–230
Other times, it happens about 30 minutes before AMPS. When I wake up and feed her LC at +9, it usually drops quite a lot almost immediately, and feeding her at +9 every night has helped bring her AMPS down. Since I started doing this, as Wendy taught me, the early-morning rise has improved quite a bit. On August 28 and 29, she even went two nights in a row without it for the first time! I feel this early-morning rise is basically the reason her AMPS is still usually above 100. Without it, she would probably stay in the green range almost 24 hours a day. Could it be dawn phenomenon, counter-regulatory hormones, her circadian rhythm, or simply something that is characteristic of her? Maybe all of them together...? I don't know.Immediately after AMPS, her BG drops again - and it drops a lot, whether she had the 1 drop or not.
I’m still hoping this early-morning spike will eventually disappear. And if it turns out to be something that is simply characteristic of her, I suppose the important thing is that her BG comes back down quickly after AMPS and gets back into the green range. Have you seen other kitties do this?
She is also taking a compound called Glycoxil, which is supposed to help with insulin resistance, and I think I’ve noticed that it has affected her curve and given me lower numbers, indeed.
So, my second question is: do you have any thoughts or suggestions about this pattern (above), and is there anything I could do to help break this cycle and eventually get rid of the early-morning rise? It happens so fast! And then it drops just as fast! It only happens during the early-morning hours, before AMPS. Throughout the day, she stays in the low green range.
If I can somehow get this early-morning rise to stop happening, she should hopefully start having green AMPS numbers as well, which is my goal at this stage.
I honestly feel like her higher AMPS is almost a prank or "fake news", because by +1:30 after AMPS, her numbers have already dropped a lot, and then she stays in the green range pretty much all day. So her AMPS really doesn’t tell the story of what happens during the rest of the day - it mostly reflects that "special" early-morning rise that comes out of a sudden.
There are also other updates about her overall situation - the Mycoplasma, her kidneys, and so on - but this post would become even longer, so I’ll stop here for now.
Thank you so much!!
A picture is worth a thousand words... Here’s how quickly her early-morning rise shoots up and then comes back down after LC food.
Actually, I thought about changing the timing of her drops to make them more strategic.
Or maybe feed her twice during the night, a little later before going to bed, so the fasting gap isn’t as long.
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she is doing better and I'm here trying to find the best option to handle her drop dose... because she drops too much. Thank you!! 
And Libre 1 seems to be accurate so far, below 100... I am so happy I was able to prick her ear, I think you can imagine 
gotta wake up at 3 a.m. or before... to feed Mami.
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