1/6 Makoto PMPS( 108) +3 (40) *AlphaTrak2 +4 (105)

Si am cat mom

Si am cat mom

Member Since 2019
Hi. We haven't posted in awhile because not too much had changed and I thought we were on "cruise control" a bit.
So, I had been working overnights the past few nights and leaving MC/LC mix food in his automatic for +3 and +5 .This am when I got home from work- later than his usual 7am time- I gave him his shot. Then to try and get back to our 7AM/PM schedule- I tested him at 6:40, fed, but gave the PM shot at 7PM. Although, for dinner he didn't eat as large a serving as he usually does, so I gave him a few more teaspoons at +1.75ish since he was waiting by his dish -which is not always typical. I was shocked to see the (40)+3 and it makes me wonder if he had been doing this overnight the past few days. I thought I would see AM bouncing and not nice blue numbers if he had been...?
It is probably more likely that the shot timing - late, early, late and the meal changes that threw him off a bit...? Feeding at 6:40 but not giving the insulin until 7PM maybe ...?
Poor guy ran into the kitchen and was screaming at me for food after his test.
Fed 1 tspn MC (14%) with 1 tspn LC (3-7%) pate...will check another BG right about now.

Just when I thought I had this all under control.
 
(49) +3.5 ish
Gave some HC gravy with 1 tspn MC ( glyco) - ate readily not ravenously like before ...waiting for more food, but not vocal about it.
 
Yikes! Good catch. :eek: Makota puts the truth to the statement "many cats go lower at night"! You will need to keep testing tonight. Those carbs could wear off in a couple hours and he could come down again. This definitely calls for a 0.25 unit reduction. I presume you are using calipers because you were dosing 0.4 units.
 
Wendy&Neko said:
Yikes! Good catch. :eek: Makota puts the truth to the statement "many cats go lower at night"! You will need to keep testing tonight. Those carbs could wear off in a couple hours and he could come down again. This definitely calls for a 0.25 unit reduction. I presume you are using calipers because you were dosing 0.4 units.
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I am not using calipers...I had couldn't find ones that lock and wasn't sure how I was supposed to calibrate the measurements. I had printed off the pictures that were posted here a long time ago for help with mircodoses. I use those pictures- printed out and marked on paper- as a guide with a backlight and magnifying glass. That's part of the problem...we can't take more reductions really. He was still hitting numbers in the 200s on the previous dose and I was told to try a high carb food so we could stop taking reductions. We've done that- one of his foods in closer to 4-6% carbs now- but I wanted to try 0.10 reductions if at all possible to slowly reduce down... Not sure if I am making any sense :oops:
0.25 wasn't enough it seemed and 0.5 is too much... I thought this 0.4 would be okay and planned on trying 0.3 as best I can line it up but...other than that I don't see how we wouldn't end up just bouncing back and forth from 0.5 to 0.25 every few days.
I have tried to find the right balance with the carbs and feeding time and I thought I had based on what data I had until tonight.
:(
 
I just don't get how I hadn't caught lower numbers at +3 before or seen higher AMPS like I have before when he drops this low overnight ... I really thought we were flat.
Do they just stop bouncing as much at a certain point- like if he's been in the low 100s for a few cycles but drops to 40, does it not cause the same overcorrection in the body that produces those higher numbers like drops of a wider range do ?
 
One other option is to use a method for dose reductions that comes from the German Lantus board. They don't reduce until there are 3 drops on separate cycles into the 40 - 50 range.
 
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