4/1/17 Rex AMPS 379, +6 509

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Sorry, I missed today's post while I was posting an answer on yesterday's post. Best answer here on the dry food situation.
 
Sorry about the posts.

I haven't seen Rex eat any of the dry food after I started the wet food 2x a day. He used to camp out there a lot.

I haven't gotten the Evo food yet. It will come Monday. I want to have some dry food available because another cat isn't finishing or rejecting his wet food for one reason or another.

I'll go ahead and do 1 unit and do a couple spot checks afterwards.
 
It was my bad on the posts.

We had one caregiver who was sure her cat wasn't getting any dry food from elsewhere in the house. He was up to 5.5 units of Levemir. She removed the dry food from the house, and the cat went down to zero units in one very long day and a half.

Looks like Rex is bouncing today. Yesterday during the day his numbers started coming down towards PMPS. In high sight, hat might have been a good night to get a spot check before bed. I don't think he went anywhere dangerous, just lower than he's used to.
 
I wish I did do a spot check last night, but he had been poked so many times I wanted to give him a break.

Can you explain "bouncing"? I have seen it mentioned but no definite explanation.

I need to buy a smaller pan for the dry food tomorrow so it's easier to put up at night. The one I have is too big to fit anywhere out of the cats' reach.
 
Here is the description of bouncing from the New to the Group Sticky Note:

Bouncing - Bouncing is simply a natural reaction to what the cat's system perceives as a BG value that is "too low". "Too low" is relative. If a cat is used to BGs in the 200's, 300's, or higher for a long time, then even a BG that drops to 150 can trigger a "bounce". Bouncing can also be triggered if the blood glucose drops too low and/or too fast.The pancreas, then the liver, release glucogon, glycogen and counter-regulatory hormones. The end result is a dumping of "sugar" into the bloodstream to save the cat from going hypoglycemic from a perceived low. The action is often referred to as "liver panic" or "panicky liver". *Usually*, a bounce will clear kitty's system within 3 days (6 cycles).
 
Oh right, now I remember reading that.

I don't get it, though. He had been steady with his numbers and didn't go down that much to trigger the 509.
 
You didn't get any tests last night after PMPS, so we don't know how low he went, or if he did, though I suspect it because of the bounce. It doesn't mean he went to a dangerous low number, but rather lower than he was used to. We determine how to dose Lantus based on how low it takes kitty, which is why the curves and spot checks are valuable. To give an example of why the odd test mid cycle is important, my kitty Neko got her first reduction (below 50), starting the cycle at 430, but was back in upper pink by the end of the cycle. I wouldn't have known she went low without a mid cycle test.
 
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