TheNewTeddy
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Yesterday
AM - 3.8 (68 US)
PM - 4.1 (74 US)
I'm going to share this link with some of my friends from off the forum, so some explanation for their sake.
Those numbers are the blood glucose (sugar) numbers. Generally a person, or even a Cat, wants to keep their numbers below 7.0, or, 126 on the US scale. Below 100 US (near 6.0) is better. Low numbers, below 3.0, can be dangerous.
When Boo was first diagnosed, his number was over 23.0 which is very high. For a human those numbers could be deadly, but cats are a little more resilient. Boo responded well and quickly to insulin. Cats also heal better/faster/more than humans do, and Boo has managed to heal his pancreas. For a human, once you have diabetes you are pretty well stuck with it, but cats can "get better" to the point they do not need insulin any more. This is what Boo has done, and this is day 5 of our trials for him OTJ (off the juice, AKA, no insulin)
You'll notice some links in my sig. One of them is Boo's SS (Spreadsheet) showing all these numbers. The type of insulin we used, Lantus, is generally used 2 times a day, so we chose 9am and 9pm. You'll note dose numbers. To help you figure out how much it is, 10 "units" is 1 ML. So these are very very small doses. The 0.1 dose was pretty well a few drops of insulin. Also, I've had people who know me and know I can make good excel files tell me how great this one is. I did not make this one
It's a forum standard. I just added in our own numbers.
Some regulars may note that this is being posted at 8pm and not 9pm, which is our standard testing time. This is because we've been varying the testing time by an hour or so, as the 9-to-9 was never easy for us for various reasons. Fortunately for us, Boo has responded very well right from the get-go, and we've thus had the luxury to "bend" some of the recommendations.
We plan to test Boo 2 times a day for 14 full days before declaring the trial a success. After which we will go down to 1 test; at least, one mandatory test, we may still do a second test, but it wont be required. After doing that for some time (end of June?) we'll go down to testing once every 2 days, and/or 3 days, etc. until we are testing once a week. I'd like to keep testing once a week in perpetuity just to make sure that if it comes back, we know.
AM - 3.8 (68 US)
PM - 4.1 (74 US)
I'm going to share this link with some of my friends from off the forum, so some explanation for their sake.
Those numbers are the blood glucose (sugar) numbers. Generally a person, or even a Cat, wants to keep their numbers below 7.0, or, 126 on the US scale. Below 100 US (near 6.0) is better. Low numbers, below 3.0, can be dangerous.
When Boo was first diagnosed, his number was over 23.0 which is very high. For a human those numbers could be deadly, but cats are a little more resilient. Boo responded well and quickly to insulin. Cats also heal better/faster/more than humans do, and Boo has managed to heal his pancreas. For a human, once you have diabetes you are pretty well stuck with it, but cats can "get better" to the point they do not need insulin any more. This is what Boo has done, and this is day 5 of our trials for him OTJ (off the juice, AKA, no insulin)
You'll notice some links in my sig. One of them is Boo's SS (Spreadsheet) showing all these numbers. The type of insulin we used, Lantus, is generally used 2 times a day, so we chose 9am and 9pm. You'll note dose numbers. To help you figure out how much it is, 10 "units" is 1 ML. So these are very very small doses. The 0.1 dose was pretty well a few drops of insulin. Also, I've had people who know me and know I can make good excel files tell me how great this one is. I did not make this one
It's a forum standard. I just added in our own numbers. Some regulars may note that this is being posted at 8pm and not 9pm, which is our standard testing time. This is because we've been varying the testing time by an hour or so, as the 9-to-9 was never easy for us for various reasons. Fortunately for us, Boo has responded very well right from the get-go, and we've thus had the luxury to "bend" some of the recommendations.
We plan to test Boo 2 times a day for 14 full days before declaring the trial a success. After which we will go down to 1 test; at least, one mandatory test, we may still do a second test, but it wont be required. After doing that for some time (end of June?) we'll go down to testing once every 2 days, and/or 3 days, etc. until we are testing once a week. I'd like to keep testing once a week in perpetuity just to make sure that if it comes back, we know.
