2/15 Oberon PMPS 205, +3 302

Suzanne & Darcy said:
Wow. Lisa. Looks like you made the right decision this morning. Great numbers all day! I’m envious (in a good way). Someday I hope to be there, too.
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Darcy will get there eventually! It just takes time.

Pretty sure this was the longest stretch of green he's ever had (over 24 hours straight). He's coming up now, finally. I'm assuming he'll be even higher at PMPS. I'm trying to figure out whether there would be any reason to consider giving him anything less than his new dose of 6 U. Can't think of any right now.
 
Lisa & Oberon said:
Morning data: AMPS 51 (BCS), +0.5 85, +1 78, +2 65, +2.5 77, +3 94, +4 81, +5 84, +6 87, +7 89, +9 121

205 at PMPS... getting his new dose (6 U).
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Wow. 6 units seems like a lot for a cat with those low numbers... but if that's what it takes... that's not a criticism!!! just an observation from a person who has a cat who has NEVER been even in the 100s let alone below that! I'm so happy for your georgous Oberon. Do you like Shakespeare? (Oberon, I mean) He's so handsome!
 
Suzanne & Darcy said:
Wow. 6 units seems like a lot for a cat with those low numbers... but if that's what it takes... that's not a criticism!!! just an observation from a person who has a cat who has NEVER been even in the 100s let alone below that! I'm so happy for your georgous Oberon. Do you like Shakespeare? (Oberon, I mean) He's so handsome!
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He's got IAA (antibodies against insulin, silly immune system), so it's taken high doses to overcome that. Of that 6 U, some of it gets bound up by the antibodies, so his effective dose is probably lower. Took months to get to this point. If you look at his spreadsheet from last year, you can see what it was like... pretty much nothing but pink until we hit about 10 U in November. Once we hit a breakthrough dose, he started earning reductions, but then that stalled out at about 4 U. Climbed back up to 9 and now we're heading back down even faster than last time. I think it's similar with acromegaly- you may need high doses to overcome the resistance.

Oberon's part of a theme. We got Ariel first. Someone dumped a pregnant mom at the abandoned house next door to a friend of mine; she caught mom and all the kittens and found homes for everyone. My kid was into The Little Mermaid at that point and picked the name. We got her littermate a week or so later when my friend was able to catch him. In addition to being a Disney character, Ariel is also both a Shakespeare character and a moon of Uranus, so we ran with that theme instead and named kitten #2 Puck. A year later we adopted "Benny" from the local rescue and since he definitely thought he was the king, Oberon was his perfect name.
 
Lisa & Oberon said:
He's got IAA (antibodies against insulin, silly immune system), so it's taken high doses to overcome that. Of that 6 U, some of it gets bound up by the antibodies, so his effective dose is probably lower. Took months to get to this point. If you look at his spreadsheet from last year, you can see what it was like... pretty much nothing but pink until we hit about 10 U in November. Once we hit a breakthrough dose, he started earning reductions, but then that stalled out at about 4 U. Climbed back up to 9 and now we're heading back down even faster than last time. I think it's similar with acromegaly- you may need high doses to overcome the resistance.

Oberon's part of a theme. We got Ariel first. Someone dumped a pregnant mom at the abandoned house next door to a friend of mine; she caught mom and all the kittens and found homes for everyone. My kid was into The Little Mermaid at that point and picked the name. We got her littermate a week or so later when my friend was able to catch him. In addition to being a Disney character, Ariel is also both a Shakespeare character and a moon of Uranus, so we ran with that theme instead and named kitten #2 Puck. A year later we adopted "Benny" from the local rescue and since he definitely thought he was the king, Oberon was his perfect name.
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You need Titania... Miranda... and others... to complete the scene.
 
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