3/7 Musette amps 197, pmps 286

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There we go looks like the bounce is clearing now to see how well she does on the .4u

Still just so impressed with the change in not only her numbers but her personality since the insulin switch. She even has a new best friend, now she insists that Onyx comes to bed with us at night, she will fuss at both me and him until he gets up and comes to bed with us, then she grooms him until his head looks like he has had his hair slicked back and then curls up with him.

Thankfully Onyx is very laid back and tolerates her grooming him within an inch of his life...lol. Actually I think he likes the extra attention from her and I know he loves getting to go to bed with mom.

Mel, Maxwell, Musette & The Fur Gang
 
Not sure why she went up so much after her +6 today unless she is still clearing that bounce.

Mel, Maxwell, Musette & The Fur Gang
 
I would give it another day or so, but keep this in mind:

She is exactly where Beau was when I had my "aha" moment. After going back and forth from .5u to .4u and thinking that .5u was clearly too much and .4u wasn't enough, I think I threatened to put him back on vetsulin :roll:

What I ended up doing was figuring out that he was rebounding on BOTH doses and I dropped him to .3u. From Pet Diabetes Wiki:

A typical rebound pattern, most often seen with long-acting insulins, is a high, flat, unresponsive blood sugar over a period of days. Sometimes, often when raising dosage, this high flat curve will be punctuated by sudden drops to very low values, (with possible hypoglycemic events) followed by a fast return to high unresponsive numbers. (It's the sudden dip that distinguishes this pattern from inadequate insulin, but it doesn't always happen.)
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.4u was enough to put him in high, flat numbers and .5u was enough more to give him a sudden drop to a low number.
 
I've been wondering if she isn't rebounding even off that .4u as well, but this is difficult to tell with her because she doesn't seem to have a stable pattern yet since the insulin switch. At least with the Lantus I could just about predict when it was going to start dropping her and where she would bottom out, but with the Lev so far I have no clue when her actual onset is and where her nadir is, sometimes it looks like onset is around +3 and other days it looks like it takes her to nearly +6. Same with her nadir, sometimes it hits at +6 other times she looks to still be dropping right up to her pmps.

As well as adding in the factor that she is still getting her ear drops which does not make her happy at all. So those could be the spike in numbers as they happen about when she gets her drops. But I have noticed on the days that she and Onyx hang out together her numbers are lower than the days when he is busy elsewhere in the house. He likes to go downstairs to the basement and play on the catwalks down there, she doesn't seem to understand stairs. She can jump just fine so it isn't a problem of neuropathy it just seems like she has never seen stairs before or at least not ones going into a dark basement. Of course she didn't know about toys either when she got her, so maybe she has just had a very sheltered life and not seen a lot of things. That and being front declawed she doesn't have much use for the trees and catwalks down there, I don't think she trusts being up that high without being able to hang on or catch herself. But she will fuss up a storm when he goes off to play down there until he comes back upstairs and then she nags him like an old lady who's husband came home late and smelling of beer...lol

Mel, Maxwell, Musette & The Fur Gang
 
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