5/1 Dimitri AMPS 83 PMPS 219

[ChEMom]

yesterday's condo

It looks like I spoke too soon about a failed reduc. yesterday. He is starting the day off nicely.
He ate a good breakfast and I am running out the door to do my weekly grocery shopping as fast
as I can so I can be back in 2 hours to check him.

 

[ChEMom]

Re: 5/1 Dimitri AMPS 83

Oh well, he continues to go up...

I'm a bit upset with him. Earlier I was using the furminator on him, which he usually loves. I was trying to get
the Oak blossoms off his belly (our back patio is covered in them.) Well, my youngest son who was watching said
I got too close to Dimitri's "man parts" cause all of sudden he bit me. Not hard, more like he hit my hand with
his teeth. I know it was more of warning notice not to go any further. But it is still disappointing. And now I
don't know what's going wrong with this cycle.

 

[Sandy and Black Kitty]

Re: 5/1 Dimitri AMPS 83

Hi there

I used to get those 'warning bites' back when we were learning to home test (and BK still had teeth :lol: )

I would not say something has gone wrong - his AMPS is beautiful.
When did he last eat, relative to your +5?
Could he have found the contraband while you were out?

 

[ChEMom]

Re: 5/1 Dimitri AMPS 83

I know that he ate about 15-20 min. before the +2.5 test, but I wasn't paying attention to when he ate after that.
I will probably retest this afternoon sometime.

 

[ChEMom]

I am really struggling with measuring out the 0.25 dose. I am wearing my glasses AND using a lighted magnifying glass that I wear around my neck.
I think I saw a tiny air bubble this morning, and maybe one this evening. This morning it took me at least 8 tries of pulling in insulin, seeing a bubble,
pushing it back out, trying again. And I keep getting back pressure from the Lantus pen, so when I do finally get the plunger lined up at what
I think is 0.25, I have to hold the plunger in place carefully while I remove the needle, otherwise the plunger gets pushed back further and I wind
up with too much insulin. Very frustrating.

I am really not sure, based on the possible bubble and Dimitri's numbers all day, that he got ANY
insulin at all this morning. Hopefully I gave him a better shot this evening.

 

[julie & punkin (ga)]

it is so difficult to measure the tiny amounts and have any confidence at all about it! i wouldn't worry too much about it if you didn't give enough - it's better than giving too much. I wouldn't worry too much about wasting some insulin in drawing up the dose. with a tiny dose he's going through the pen very slowly.

Overall, Dimitri is looking great. hope you're having a great evening!