.4 a safe amount?

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Thaiger & Katie

Thaiger & Katie

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Hi AGAIN!

Can someone look at Thai's sheet and let me know if I over did it with the .4 this morning? I have to head to work so I won't be able to monitor so i'm hoping I didn't just give her too much... She's eating now.
 
Hard to say for sure but it might be safe. 0.2 with a preshot of 208 gave her a nadir around 90 meaning she had a little room to to go lower. Definitely leave food out for her. Any way you could check in on her around +5?
 
Earliest I could be home to check on her would be +8.5. :( she does have food out though... about 1/4 can of food and a handful of low carb dry food
 
.8 with an AMPS of 262 had a nadir of 57
.2 with an AMPS of 208 had a nadir of 90
So .4 with an AMPS of 247 will have a nadir of..... 70 - 80ish?
 
Theoretically. I won't say don't worry, as I know you will anyways. I will be thinking about Thaiger all day, as I'm sure you will be, too! She has food available, so that's a great thing. I guess you don't have anyone that could pop in on her in a few hours?
 
I'm so glad to hear that you're going to check in on her! I'll keep checking in on here, and I sure hope you don't get fired! Although Thaiger would be worth it right? ;)
 
It's always good to get data when you can and this will be especially helpful since it's early days. Glad to hear she is in safe numbers!
 
Ohhhhh what we do for our fur babies lol. When Hidey was diagnosed I freaked out with testing. I had a part time job at that time, and made it clear to my boss I would only work from 8-1, that way I had time to make sure he ate, got his shot and was ok before I left in the morning, and then I was home to test and feed lol. Luckily I worked with the same boss, at a small daycare for 8+ years, and she was an animal lover......no questions asked (or guilt trip lol)
 
She dropped a bit between +6 and +7? Quite a bit actually... She was yelling at me to feed her but I wanted to wait to get an accurate reading. Does this mean that the Prozinc is probably most effective with her at +7 and not at +5 like I originally thought?
 
Looks like her nadir could be around +7 then. But, it's a nice safe number at least. Are you going to keep checking every hour just to be sure she's rising?
 
It can vary, Hidey's would be between +5 - +7. Some days his nadir would be 5, some days 6, other days 7. Im sure there are many factors that come in to play.....how the body is feeling that day, how often they free fed that day, activity level...... and so on. Thats why its nice on the days you can test to get the data because it gives you more of an idea. She's looking good though ;)
 
Oh, and if you want to talk about dropping quite a bit, Bud went from a pre-shot of 404 to a +3.5 of 116! So almost 300 points in 3.5 hours. Talk about panic! lol but at +4.5 he was rising. Probably bouncing from not being use to the lower numbers.
 
@Stacym20 holy cow! I would be freaking out! And nah on the continual testing.. She gets another poke in 2.5 hours to see if she can have her next dose of insulin so i figured I would give her a break. She sounded like she was starving to death too so I caved and fed her after that last test so I don't think it would have been very accurate anyways.
 
Are you adding any water to her food? Sometimes that can help fill them up a little better, but if that doesnt help feed feed feed for the moment until shes regulated......it will make you both happier lol
 
Sounds like a plan. And all my cats act like they're starving to death most of the time. I thought that was just a normal cat thing. Lol!
 
dirtybirdsoaps said:
Are you adding any water to her food? Sometimes that can help fill them up a little better, but if that doesnt help feed feed feed for the moment until shes regulated......it will make you both happier lol
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@dirtybirdsoaps oh if you could only experience the diva known as Thaiger. She won't eat wet food unless I add warm water to it. She will literally sit and stare at her bowl until I add MORE water if she has already lapped up what is there. Yet she loves dry food so I don't get it. She also has 3 litter boxes. She poohs only in one of them and then the other two must be completely void of kitty mess for her to use them to urinate.

She has my heart.. and my wallet.. :D
 
lol reminds me of Hidey, I spoon feed him a lot of his food. He wont dig in to get it so I have to spoon it into a pile, then after a moment spoon feed him. LOL My dad laughs every time he comes to visit because theres always something new and crazy going on with my cats. This time it will most likely be windows covered because they freak with other cats in the yard......working on getting another scarecrow sprinkler in my back yard to keep them a way.
 
That's awesome! Bud threw me a 169 this morning! I was like "I have no idea what to do with that..." lol if you look at his spreadsheet it's literally been almost never that he's had a pre-shot in the 100's.
 
For sure! But since Bud has been getting 1.4, I figured 0.2 was okay. And I did 2 re-tests to make sure 169 was right that came in at 170 and 204. I'm still flabbergasted... Will be interesting to see what he is tonight.
 
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