2/10 Darcy is flying higher AMPS 353, +5 447, +9 392

Sorry, missed today's post. What you are seeing today is what we call NDW or New Dose Wonkiness. It's higher numbers after an increase, most often see in cycle 2-3. Paws crossed for lower numbers tonight. It's Novolin R at Walmart, Humulin R elsewhere.
 
Wendy&Neko said:
Sorry, missed today's post. What you are seeing today is what we call NDW or New Dose Wonkiness. It's higher numbers after an increase, most often see in cycle 2-3. Paws crossed for lower numbers tonight. It's Novolin R at Walmart, Humulin R elsewhere.
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I got the Novolin R at Walmart today. $24.88.
 
Awesome! When do you want to start? We'd start a low dose, 0.25 units and give it at the same time as his Lantus. Then you'd test each hour for the 4 hours afterwards.
 
Wendy&Neko said:
Awesome! When do you want to start? We'd start a low dose, 0.25 units and give it at the same time as his Lantus. Then you'd test each hour for the 4 hours afterwards.
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I will probably start it on Saturday. Can't do it tomorrow morning because I won't be home in the morning after about +3 for a couple of hours. Saturday I can make sure that I'll be home for the first four hours. Evening, too, if we decide to do that.
 
Hi Suzanne,
let me know what you plan for tomorrow if you decide to try R on Saturday.
I am in spain so your 6.3 aam in my 12.30 midday.
 
Suzanne, turns out tomorrow AM is not good for Gill, though other days Ok, but I can still do the PM slot if that works or you. Please start a new post tomorrow and we'll do it from there.
 
What do I need to do? Just try the .25 simultaneously with his a.m. shot of Lantus? Then I test every hour, for example shoot at 6, test at 7, 8, 9, and 10. If he drops too low, I can feed him up and treat it like any other hypo where I usually give some Fancy Feast gravy lovers and test every 20 minutes until I am sure he is rising again? Uh, I have to admit that I have been known to gk a little overboard during a hypo. Once I gave him the whole Gravy Lovers can (well.. it worked).... oh yes, then I followed it up with high carb kibble just to be sure! This was his first hypo! And if he doesn’t come up fast enough then I have been known to add in Karo also! I guess I have the attitude that there’s no way he’s going to die on my watch! Now that I have seen how I can bring him back up without going crazy with carb/sugar overload... I can be a little more judicious! No glazed doughnuts for Darcy.
 
Wendy&Neko said:
When has Darcy been low enough to hypo? I didn't see that on the spreadsheet.
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Last year. October 5, 2020 he vomited up his whole breakfast after insulin and then I rushed him out the door to the vet... and we ended up waiting for a long time in the car to get to the vet... then we took him home... but we made a couple of short stops on the way home (Darcy waited in the car of course.. and we perfectly happy to do it... my kids were both with him.) I forgot about the fact that he had basically no food on his tummy and that he would drop low. So at +5, I got a 74... which is on my Premiere meter, which I understand reads like a pet meter... so my "take action number was "80" and he was under 80 so I "took action... " :-) Anyway, when he was rising and got back up to 129, I stopped testing him but just kept him with me to keep an eye on him.

The other time he dropped really low was October 9, 2020, but at this time it was in the evening. I just happened to give him an evening test and he had dropped from a PMPS of 375, to a +2 of 209, to a +4 of 68. That was definitely a take action number. I didn't go quite as crazy as I did the first time it happened... I fed him a little of the FF Gravy Lovers and he started to climb. I was nervous and kept checking until he was really rising for several consecutive tests. The spreadsheet doesn't really have enough slots on it to indicate how many times I tested him that night (every 20 minutes for a while) so I just put in a few of the rising numbers.
 
We have quite a few people here using the Premier, and they haven't reported that they are close to the pet meters. They are human meters so should read closer to human meters. And the two types of meters are closer in lower numbers where it counts. Typically our "take action" number is under 50 on a human meter. If you have to do several tests in a hour, you can list it like: 68;+4.3 xx;4.6 yy. You then have to manually colour the cell.
 
I also have a ReliOn Prime meter. It does usually read a bit lower than the Premier, but you know meters... they have those annoying 20% meter variance anyway. It’s crazy.
 
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