2/3 Magnolia AMPS 281

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Sara & Magnolia

Sara & Magnolia

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WCR: Hungry hungry kitty. 5 P's are good. Purry, furry and cuddly.

Her numbers are confusing me. Maybe her shed is still refilling from last Friday's stall? Yesterday was all yellow all day (though she may have had a blue I didn't see as I was at TBP most of my waking hours)

I have been thinking (always dangerous) and some questions have come up:

She eats at +10 almost every cycle. Does this make her +11 spot checks useless because of the food spike? Should I get the +10 only and forget about +11? Would the same go for her +1? Should I skip it and get the +2's?

I plan to visit the pet food store tomorrow. I'm going to stock up on other carb value foods. My question is...what is considered "medium" carb? I feed Wellness turkey and chicken. They both have 4 carbs. The salmon and trout have 8 carbs. Is that considered medium? Or chicken and lobster at 11 carbs? And...the shrimp, crab and turkey at 16 carbs...would that be considered high carb? I have FF + gravy in her emergency kit, I thought that was the high carb, but maybe I should have another option.

Just wondering.

Yesterday's Condo

Yesterday Recap:
AMPS 274
PMPS 215
+1.5 270
 
It may help if you did the food before +10,.. like between +8 and +9.5 is a common time for a snack...by the time +12 comes along, food has had time to settle. and I would say most likely the +11 has a food spike in there too.
U could try that and track how it goes.
You may want to compare the % in the food charts...certain FF are over 18% - the grilled, marinated and others, especially with gravy are up there for HC.
 
Thanks Ronnie!

I'm moving back her meals. This will be interesting. She gets hungry every 2 hours. She's meowed at me for over an hour before PMPS...but I guess that's expected at first.

I think I need to get new insulin tomorrow. Her numbers didn't move all day long, this seems abnormal. This vial lasted a long time, we were lucky. Any opinions on whether we should go with a vial or a cartridge?
 
Food: Anything under 10% is considered LC. However, if you've been routinely feeding 4%, I'd be really curious how Magnolia (or any of our cats) responds to an 8% carb food. 18% or better is considered HC -- although that 16% is pretty darn close. I figure anything in between is MC. One advantage of the Wellness is that it is gluten free -- the FF that's HC has gluten. The advantage of the FF is that there's gravy. The Wellness is a pate-style food. To be honest, I mix LC and HC for MC.

I would vote for a cartridge but you can't usually buy just one. They are packaged as 5. That said, when I called one of the university med center pharmacies near me they indicated that they sold cartridges individually. A box of cartridges will probably be twice as expensive as a vial.
 
PMPS 295

Thanks for the info Sienne. That makes sense.

PMPS 295. The flat yellow seems very very weird. She was dropping into the blues last week. My messup was 5 days ago. I'd think she'd be back to normal by now. It has to be the insulin, no?

If a box of cartridges lasts twice as long as a vial...I'm willing to spend the extra money on it. A cartridge lasts 28 days.? This vial lasted about 3 months, but that's rare, right? I think the cartridge sounds like a better idea. If it's just as easy to use, why not?

And if it is the insulin going bad...yet she's in the 200's consistently...very exciting times may be ahead when we get good insulin!
 
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