5/26 Tuxie AMPS-468;+2.5-340;+4.5-148;+5-139;+7-185 ;+9-310 and changes at home

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Tuxedo Mom

Tuxedo Mom

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http://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/...61-5-229-8-317-pmps-457-dose-increase.138402/


Well since Tuxie's "better" day on Sunday he has chosen to stay in the higher ranges, so he got a dose increase last night of .25 units. It seems every time he has a nice run he goes higher again...not sure if I would call this a bounce or more like glucose toxicity and just him trying to maintain his "normal" higher levels.

The dynamics will be changing around here is a couple of days. My son's two kitties (sisters age 6.5 years) will be staying with me for about a month. He is changing apartments and due to a mix up he has a month in between the old and the new. They have lived here for about a year a few years back and unfortunately my 2 and his 2 do not get along well. I have also had them (prior to Tuxie's dx) for 3-5 days at a time when my son was going to be away. At best it is an uncomfortable truce.

Tuxie's sister Maxie will hide in my bedroom the first 4 or 5 days, so I will have to put food/water and litter box there for her. Tuxie will have his nose out of joint and will hiss and growl at them (although it never turns into outright warfare). And I am sure Gizmo and Smokey will be upset at being uprooted from their usual surroundings. My son works and has a busy outside work schedule so he won't be around much to help out.

So now I will have to monitor their food, which is the same home-made I use, to make sure Tuxie doesn't get into theirs. They will be in the basement, but when it comes to food, Tuxie has a very keen nose. Plus I will have to find another spot for their litterboxes, so I can monitor who does what.

So all in all I really don't know what the change will do as far as Tuxie's numbers. He is very routine oriented and not very flexible to change. I may have to leave his dose at the same amount for longer periods of time until I can see whether the stress is having an effect on his readings.
 
Tuxie decided to be active today. His +4.5 is 148 on the AT pet meter and 95 on the FS Lite human meter. I gave a Tbsp 14% to slow the drop. Unfortunately I have a number of errands to do today, so I may give some HC just before I go out. His "usual" nadir is around +6 or so, but that can vary. I am going to space my errands so I can be home within a couple of hours between errands to test. Tuxie KNEWI was going out today..he just LOVES to mix things up. o_O
 
Tested 20 minutes after +4.5 so approx +5 He was at 139 on AT2 pet meter after 14% food, so I gave him another Tbsp 14% and a few drops of syrup in the food since I am leaving now.
 
tiffmaxee said:
Good luck with all the changes. My head is spinning just thinking about it. You are a great mom.
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Thanks for the luck wishes. It will be an interesting time for sure, but since these are my "grandkitties" that is just the way it is :)

I only hope that the chaos doesn't mess up Tuxie's numbers too bad. Who knows maybe the extra activity will give him better numbers. :rolleyes:
 
Well Tuxie hit 310 at +9. He really doesn't like to stay in the blue for long. There must be a way to get him to come down, but not bounce back up so quickly.
 
It's called time. Tgey bounce until they get used to better and then normal numbers. Some still bounce but not as high. Take a look at Max's first ss and also EDDIE and Chi Chi. Eddie is now OTJ but he bounced a lot for a year.
 
tiffmaxee said:
It's called time. Tgey bounce until they get used to better and then normal numbers. Some still bounce but not as high. Take a look at Max's first ss and also EDDIE and Chi Chi. Eddie is now OTJ but he bounced a lot for a year.
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Thank you. The problem with Tuxie is he has been bouncing since the beginning.

This is his Dec 2014-Feb 2015 spreadsheet. I made it after I did the one I currently use so I have NO idea how to add it on to my existing sheet. I am totally spreadsheet challenged. Since I was naive and listened to my first (no longer) vet I did not home test the first 10-12 days.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zjLCy1Y3LgvEsa3TU22TfmUUru9Ekr55QBrfBUpRO1Q/edit#gid=5

As you can see he has always bounced and never really settled in to a range. He still likes to throw out blacks and reds even now. Tuxie's numbers are better than in the beginning, but he is getting a lot more insulin as well.
 
tiffmaxee said:
Max bounced for over a year. He just just mostly had pink highs.
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Right now I would certainly settle for pinks as a high. Maybe that is why I try to keep him away from the low blues and greens on AT meter. Whenever he hits those he just goes way back up. I commented yesterday that I would be happy with a flat curve in the yellows, then work down from there. But Tuxie likes to have ALL the colours, all in the same day sometimes.
 
I do see less blacks on the ss. I also would not gave given 14% after the blues. It took him into pinks pretty fast. When I was trying to prevent Max from dropping I would feed mc if he dropped too much or too low too fast but only once and if it kept him from much of a drop us go back to lc. Just a suggestion. It takes lots of trial and error. One thing inhave noticed is that some of the bouncy cats that were in the black eventually went OTJ whereas Max won't. I feel your frustration. :bighug:
 
tiffmaxee said:
I do see less blacks on the ss. I also would not gave given 14% after the blues. It took him into pinks pretty fast. When I was trying to prevent Max from dropping I would feed mc if he dropped too much or too low too fast but only once and if it kept him from much of a drop us go back to lc. Just a suggestion. It takes lots of trial and error. One thing inhave noticed is that some of the bouncy cats that were in the black eventually went OTJ whereas Max won't. I feel your frustration. :bighug:
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I totally agree with the 14% food...however I was going to be out for 2-3 hours and he has done some wicked drops in a short time frame. Tuxie never picks a "good" day to have an active cycle. If he had done it yesterday when I was home all day I would have just rode out the drop. Sigh..... :)
 
Tuxedo Mom said:
I totally agree with the 14% food...however I was going to be out for 2-3 hours and he has done some wicked drops in a short time frame. Tuxie never picks a "good" day to have an active cycle. If he had done it yesterday when I was home all day I would have just rode out the drop. Sigh..... :)
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I would have done what you did as keeping him safe is your number one rule. It did likely cause him to go up faster so you have an explanation.
 
Good luck with the grandfurkids. I hope Tuxie's numbers aren't affected by them.

Low blacks on the AT are more like high pinks with human meters - it just looks worse compared to human meter SS at the high end. Neko's first year had a lot of human meter blacks. :arghh: It took about 6 months to see the last of them. Then almost another year before she parked her red dress in the closet.

Looks like Tuxie is having a nice night. :cool:
 
Wendy&Neko said:
Good luck with the grandfurkids. I hope Tuxie's numbers aren't affected by them.

Low blacks on the AT are more like high pinks with human meters - it just looks worse compared to human meter SS at the high end. Neko's first year had a lot of human meter blacks. :arghh: It took about 6 months to see the last of them. Then almost another year before she parked her red dress in the closet.

Looks like Tuxie is having a nice night. :cool:
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If I was more spreadsheet literate I would set up a sheet with different numbers for the colours for a pet meter. Even though I mention every day that I use the AT meter, when I look at the SS I just see the colours and I really don't like seeing the blacks or reds. You are absolutely right that it looks worse when compared to human meter readings.

Thanks for sharing about Neko's first year and the struggle to get rid of blacks and reds. Somehow I got it stuck in my head that if after 6 months I didn't see decent regulation, then it wasn't going to work. 6 months is only a number but I focused on it...silly me!! Patience, patience, patience....I must keep reminding myself of that.
 
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