Re: 2/21Max-AMPS173+4.5=187+6=172PMPS335Increase tomorrow?
Here's your last post:
2/20 Max
i think going back to 1.5u with his dose is a good idea.
i'm not sure how to explain his numbers. i'm puzzled a bit too, which is why i was asking about the hairball treats thinking they might be having an effect on the somewhat different cycles. today it looks like the insulin just didn't hold through the cycle. however, there are plenty of cycles that it does hold through, so it's not just that the insulin isn't lasting.
he was diagnosed in November, right? the ss starts in January - hold old is your insulin? i don't really think that's it because he got into the 40's just 4 days ago, so it looks effective to me, but i thought i'd ask. it helps if you put new insulin into the comments section of your ss when you do start a new pen or vial.
i wonder if he went lower last night and today was beginning a bounce. i wouldn't bother tonight now that he's high, but maybe the next time you get a blue in the pm cycle you could get another test later, just to see what he's doing in those early morning hours. Even a +11 might be revealing. Although when i see the 263 at pmps and a 168 at +4, that's not a very fast drop, so if it were me, i'd have gone to bed and not worried that he'd get low. i'm just thinking out loud here about what might be going on.
i'm trying to remember what your habits/techniques are in giving a shot. would you remind me, please? do you rotate locations or always shoot in the same general area? we know that absorption can vary as much as 50% - so that could be part of the picture.
if he's high again later this evening, i might think he was starting a bounce.
the bottom line is that he looked better on 1.5u, so maybe just increasing the dose will help overall. If you look at the cycles on 1.5u, he only had one pink number and overall he looked better. i think i'd try to give him more food around +4 to try to keep him from earning a reduction so that you can keep him at 1.5u a little longer this time.
