11/29/11 PMPS 456 ~ now getting a lower dose...

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Lydia & Sid & Jake(GA)

Lydia & Sid & Jake(GA)

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I've gotten a couple of spot checks in at late in the cycle and Sid undergoes a HUGE spike between 9.5 and 12. This morning it was about 280 points. All the P's are perfect so far - eating like a little chowhound, pooping solid, being a good boy for his poke, and enjoying his heated pad on the couch (on this horrible snowy Michigan day...)

Here is the breakdown of his spotchecks:
11/28/11
7:00 am AMPS 487
7:00 pm +12 143 (ate 1 can of FF)
8:25 pm 227 gave him 0.2
10:15 +2 170 (ate a small meal)
12:15 +4 90 (ate a small meal, some hc just in case)
11/29/11
5:45 am +9.5 240
7:20 am +11 520 gave him 0.2
6:00 pm +10.75 318
7:00 pm =11.5 456 gave him 0.2
 
I'm very confused. Why did you reduce Sid's dose? There's no indication that his numbers dropped below 50.

The spike is a bounce off of the 90 at PM +4 yesterday. It's expected.
 
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I reduced it because of the 143 yesterday at +12 (PMPS). I didn't want to completely skip the dose so I gave him less and I thought he responded pretty well to it. Also, to me that 143 means he went much lower during the afternoon. I know it is not a good idea to markedly increase or decrease the dose day by day, so that is why I'm thinking I should give him 0.2 for 3 to 4 days to see how he does on that. I would be much happier to see him steady in the 200s to 300s than bouncing from 90 to 500. I really don't want another hypo episode like last week; that was very bad and scary, especially considering that most cats on lantus do not show hypo signs. He was in bad shape.
 
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