? 4/27 Wrigley AMPS=352 | PMPS=431 | 4=422 | 5=470

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Any ideas what is going on with his high numbers lately? Is .25 too low of a dose? Should I go back to .5 units?
 
+5 and he is at 470. I am confused and not sure what is going on. I am off to bed. If anyone has any advice, I would love to hear. Thanks all.
 
Remind me what your feeding schedule is . . . I'm seeing some pretty fast drops and am wondering if feeding him with that handy dandy timed feeder on a schedule to minimize drops would help him. I'm seeing your last post and will get some info for you and post it in a bit.
 
Here is a post that is dealing with feeding a cat to prevent fast drops and help reduce bouncing.

I'm not sure if 0.25u is enough for Wrigley or not. He might need to go back to 05u to get him back in greens. I think probably he does need a little bit more.

Looking at his pm cycles to see if there are either 1) fast drops - anything more than about 40-50 points in an hour or 2) any green numbers later in the night. It's hard to tell, but there are at least some nights where he is dropping really fast. On 4/24 he dropped 200 points in 2.5 hrs. That alone can set off another bounce.

I think I'd try 2 things. I'd use your timed feeder to dole out food in the first couple of hours of each of his cycles. However much food you normall feed in 1/2 of the day (one cycle), I'd feed him 1/2 of his food at preshot, then divide the remainder up evenly between +1, +2 and +3. See if spreading out the food like that will help preven those fast drops. Some people put notes in their comments section about feeding, some people put an * in the cell where they feed. Some do both. The important thing is that you understand what you're doing with food so you can analyze if it's helping smooth out his cycles.

I'd probably also go back to 0.5u. He's had 8 cycles past the missed shot and there's nothing lower than a blue. I'm not as convinced on that one because I'm not positive we're seeing how low the dose can take Wrigley. I might try the feeding plan for a couple more days and see if that changes the picture before increasing his dose.

Let's see if anyone else chimes in with thoughts on his dose.
 
Here is his feeding schedule. He is getting about 2.5 cans of FF classics per day so 1.25 cans is split in his morning feeder and his night feeder.

6:45-7:00 AM - Test/Feed/Shoot
9:00 AM - Food
10:00 AM - Food
11:30 AM - Food
1:00 PM - Food

6:45-7:00 PM - Test/Feed/Shoot
9:00 PM - Food
10:15 PM - Food
11:30 PM - Food

Thanks for the info @julie & punkin (ga)
Should I change both his morning and evening feeding to 6:45 and then +1, +2 ,+3 only?
 
Using food the way that's been suggested is essentially an experiment. Try one method for a couple of weeks and see if it makes a difference. This is one place where truly, every cat is different (ECID). You'll need to sort out what works best for Wrigley. Changes in a feeding schedule don't always have an immediate effect so you want to give Wrigley enough time to adjust.
 
Eric, were you using this feeding schedule back on 4/19 and 4/21 when the fast drops happened? I think this is a good feeding schedule, but you might need to increase the food at one of the earlier times just before you know he tends to drop fast.

I am not 100% sure, but when you saw the big drop on 4/19 it might be possible that there was still a residual of the .75 depot left for that cycle.

With these fast deep drops he could just be bouncing. As I understand it if they drop more than 50 points in an hour that can cause a bounce, and even at these smaller doses he could still be bouncing from fast drops even if he isn't going to green, but with out more mid cycle tests it is hard to say for sure.
 
Yes, I believe I was using the feeder on 4/19 and 4/21. I didn't have a good feeding schedule down until about a week ago I think.
 
Is there any way that you could take a day and do a full curve, where you test every hour to see exactly what Wrigley's BG is doing?
 
Maybe this weekend. I can't ever do that during the day. I think we might be home all day Saturday or Sunday. Do you test ever hour for 12 hours for a curve?
 
I think getting 3-4 tests in a mid-cycle is enough to see what's going on. The tricky part always comes in if people decide they're going to do an every 2 hr curve for 12 hrs on Saturday, but then Saturday turns out to be a bounce day.

The important information is the answer to "how low is this dose taking Wrigley?" However you get that information is good enough. If you can get it in 2 tests on Saturday, that's perfect.

You have a lot of information in the evenings and I do think there is enough there to suggest going back to the 0.5u dose. I'd try it if I were you.

It's going to be helpful if you put notes in the ss on what you're doing with feeding.
 
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