He seems to like to Nadir late.
I realize that the greens in the 50's and low 60s may make you nervous, but I think you should try and reserve the HC for when he drops below 50.
Use food to manage his curve but try to use LC (maybe on the higher end)
When you are intervening with HC when he is in the 50's and 60's, for extended periods at times, you are artificially bolstering his numbers, and delaying the reduction, when the reduction does come the depot is quite full and that ends up being a crazy cycle, where he spends a long time in those lower numbers and you fighting to keep him up.
feb 16
+11 he was 50 in the am cycle you gave honey and shot on time an 80, when you get a low number like that within that 2 hour window, two options, one don't feed, and see what happens. or give him a teaspoon of LC, just a small amount. Given he does like to nadir late in the cycle, he has had a few at +12, you might want to get into the habbit of testing at +10 and if he is dropping ore low, giving him some LC at +10, that way you still have your 2 hour window without food before the PS.
After you shot he came up a bit at +2 then dropped. You fed +1 +2+3 mix of( LC and HC/ 20g with a teaspoon or was it a tablespoon?) Then he was in the 50's by +6 so you used some HC at +6 and +7. +9 he was 112.
I think next time he is in his 50's midcycle or later try giving him some LC and see if he will surf for you. He had a lot of HC that cycle and you also intervened with HC late in the previous cycle, this is Hercules trying to say something, if you are having to intervene with HC to keep him from going below 50, maybe the dose is a little too much for him?
Feb 17
Again in the pm you used HC late in the pm cycle, to bump him up from 59. (he makes it hard for you with those late drops at night), another strategy might have been to feed a couple of teaspoons of LC at that point check him 30min later and see if was going to surf, if he had stayed flat or gone up, you could have given him another LC snack and got to bed a whole hour and half earlier.
I think you need to step back from the HC, reserve it for drops below 50, use it, by all means, if you have an emergency and can't monitor, but try not to make it the norm when he is still in those dark greens.
The way he earned the reduction from 0.75 to 0.5 u with a number of hours of fighting those low numbers was probably as a result of the depot becoming overfull as a result of steering his numbers a bit to aggressively with HC a few cycles earlier. Consequently he dropped to below 50 just two cycles and a skip into the reduced dose.
Steering his numbers is a good way to flatten him out and get him to spend more time in green, but if you are having to do it using a significant amount of HC then Hercules is probably trying to tell you that he's had enough of the dose.
I hope you find that helpful. Let me know if you have anymore questions.
It looks like he may have started a bounce with that +2 but I wouldn't trust him.
You might want to get a +4. If he is still in high blues, you may want to get some spot checks in the latter part of the cycle. +7/+8 and +10
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I always waited 15-20 minutes without feeding and retested, and shot when she popped up over 50.