Oh thank goodness you are up. I know you are in a different time zone.
Thank you for your help. I really appreciate it. Have a good night.
I usually rely on Bandit's Mom and Marge and Gracie. They are great but they are both in different time zones from me. Thank you for your advice. Next time, I will try the main forum.
Do you have his AMPS?
I just took his AMPS It is 81. I do feed him usually around + 7 or + 8. I did this morning as well and he still kept dropping.
I have no clue what is going on lately. Phoenix was diagnosed almost a year ago. His BG always went up at least 100 points after eating and stayed up for several hours. He has a late nadir. The last couple of weeks all this has changed. He has been remaining low all day which is a good thing. I can no longer predict when he is going to be low or high
I will give his full dose since I can monitor. I don't want to get his numbers too low ,though . I live in a rural area. It is an hour and a half drive to the vet for an emergency.
His insulin needs have reduced. Even though he is high for a couple of cycles after a skipped shot or BCS shot, he recover quickly. He is just going down the dosing ladder and that is often a scary ride for the caregiver.
It is safer to skip the shot if you cannot monitor and he is running low. Let us see where he is tomorrow AM.
Please get a +1 and post it here.
I don't know how to measure the LC, MC HC. Phoenix has always been on a raw meat diet. I have a sandwich bag full of dry cat food that I keep in my refrigerator for an emergency. I took it out of a large bag of dry food that I feed my barn cats. I do have honey and karo syrup as well.
Yes, I have honey and karo. I will get a + 1 in 30 minutes. Thank you for your help. I have updated his spreadsheet and will now update his title.
Is it that long till +1?
Add a drop of honey to the raw. (if you keep track of how much you can figure out what works for Phoenix).
You feed at +10, don't feed after unless he drops below 50. If he does, he has earned a reduction.
His + 1 is 128. I am about to post it on his spreadsheet. I
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Have a great day!
His +2 is 156. I will get a +3. You don't know how much I appreciate your help !!Ok. Heading higher. Please feed him a little more of his usual food and get a +2? Thanks
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Great idea, like what @JL and Chip detailed nicely above somewhere
I haven't found any canned food that Phoenix will eat. When he was younger, he would eat the canned DM. Then, they changed the formula and made it quite mushy. Every time he ate it, he immediately threw it back up.
Phoenix eats just raw meat. It is not canned. I have looked at the Ziwipeake on Chewy.com. I don't believe Phoenix will eat it. I have multiple cans of prescription food that the vet gave me to try. He would not touch them. I hate to buy a whole case when I know he will turn his nose up at it.
I agree, when we test and get a number, we need to ask ourselves
That's a good idea to add the honey or Karo to his meat. He scarfs it down so fast, he probably wouldn't even taste it. Potato flakes are another good idea. I could just roll his meat in it as long as they didn't just disintegrate.
I have only used the the dry on 2 occasions. Both when Phoenix dropped into the 30's.
that's good, I think if you find yourself in an emergency where he is not coming up and getting full you could use the dry, especially as you are so rural, we are an hour from our vets, no ER, so I get how that can give anxiety, but steer clear of it otherwise, it makes it harder to read his numbers.
Looks like shooting the full dose was a good decision, isn't hind sight great
If this was me I would probably see what happens over the next few days of cycles, and see if it becomes necessary, see if you can hold the dose long enough to see the depot settle. You have reduced by 1u already this week, coming down too fast can back fire. See how he settles into this 8.5u dose. I just don't want to see your hard work undone.
That all sounds good to me. I am a little concerned about tomorrow. I have some errands to run and will be gone for about 3 hours. I can wait until the afternoon when his BG usually rises. Unless he pulls another stunt on me like earlier this week. He remained in the blue numbers almost all day. I will not leave him if his BG is not above 120.that's good, I think if you find yourself in an emergency where he is not coming up and getting full you could use the dry, especially as you are so rural, we are an hour from our vets, no ER, so I get how that can give anxiety, but steer clear of it otherwise, it makes it harder to read his numbers.
I was concerned it might be more regular than that, and we would have to keep that in mind going forward.
Looks like shooting the full dose was a good decision, isn't hind sight great
If this was me I would probably see what happens over the next few days of cycles, and see if it becomes necessary, see if you can hold the dose long enough to see the depot settle. You have reduced by 1u already this week, coming down too fast can back fire. See how he settles into this 8.5u dose. I just don't want to see your hard work undone.
I believe you had the tests for acro and IAA done but we never saw the results. I am wondering if he had IAA which is self-limiting after a year and the BG can drop quickly with several reductions earned one after the other. He’s been diabetic about a year so, if he did have IAA, it would be about the time it would break.
I don't know about milk, but some folk have used icecream.
His vet phoned me with the results. I believe you asked me previously what lab he sent the blood work to. I do not know. I feel he would be offended if I called him up and started questioning him. My previous vet that I had used for 40 years retired. It took going to several vets before I found my new vet. He was recommended to me and I am extremely pleased with him. I don't want to ruin our relationship. The next time I take Phoenix back to him, I will ask.
Susan
