5/30 Merlin PMPS 406, 299@+1, 104@+2, 182@+3, 200@+4

Merlin’sMama said:
Last night we fed him half a can of 15% as his PMPS meal. Then another teaspoon of 15% at +1.5
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So tonight, just feed him the normal low carb meal at preshot and then at +1-1.5 give him some 15% to slow that big drop. You should only need low carb after that as we have only used low carb today and he’s doing fine, except for the big slippery dip ride ar +2.
 
Bron and Sheba (GA) said:
So tonight, just feed him the normal low carb meal at preshot and then at +1-1.5 give him some 15% to slow that big drop. You should only need low carb after that as we have only used low carb today and he’s doing fine, except for the big slippery dip ride ar +2.
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Ok…so tonight 1/2 can of 5.7 (or less % ?) as his supper. Then 15 at +1.5-2. But that’s not what we did this morning. We gave one spoon 2.9 at +1.5 and then 2 spoons 6.1 @+2.
 
Suzanne & Darcy said:
Jill, sorry, but can you enter the 225 at +2 into the US sheet, so it won't say error.
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I have tried many times. It wont enter. I think I may have deleted the code in the cell. When I try to enter the number the writing turns blue and I cant go to the right of it to get out of the blue. One time it even changed the number in the World to US.
 
Merlin’sMama said:
Ok…so tonight 1/2 can of 5.7 (or less % ?) as his supper. Then 15 at +1.5-2. But that’s not what we did this morning. We gave one spoon 2.9 at +1.5 and then 2 spoons 6.1 @+2.
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Yes this morning we purposely only gave the low carb food so we could see when he had his onset and big drop. So now that we have identified where the onset and big drop is, we are going to try the 15%food at +1.5 to see if that slows down the big drop. Does that make sense?
 
Merlin’sMama said:
So one spoon of 15 instead of one spoon of 2.9 then then two spoons of 6.1. Give only one spoon after supper, and it will be 15% at 1.5?
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Don't get too anxious about it. I think this evening we will try to give 15% at about +1.5. I wouldn't worry whether it is one or two spoonsful. A teaspoon is not a lot of food and it's early in the cycle -- maybe even 2 teaspoons since he is supposed to go low carb after that (when he needs it, and nothing if he's not dropping a lot or quickly). After that, you can use low carb and you have a lot of options to choose from, I see. Anything under 10% is considered low carb.
 
AMPS. 454
+1. 406. 1 teaspoon low carb 2.9%
+2. 225. 2 teaspoons low carb 6.1%
+2.5. 194. No food.
+3. 167 1 teaspoon 2-3% carbs
+4 83
 
Merlin’sMama said:
Didn’t Bron think the lowest was at 2? Im confused…

Bron thought the lowest point was +1-+2
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No. Not the lowest point. the lowest number is the nadir... so far, the lowest number is the 83. We have seen (not just today, but I had observed this on most every other day!) that he does his biggest DROP between 1 and 2. That's why yesterday I said to go to the 15% between 1 and 2 (which is what we will do tonight again).

So the nadir, or lowest point in his cycle was +4 last night (and has been during other cycles as well). But the steepest drop is usually between hours 1 and 2. Make sense? You're probably just really tired!
 
Well, he's done it. He has followed his pattern and is coming up at +5. Obviously he doesn't need any food and you can rest or do something else now. I think it's okay that we used low carb on him at +4. It was definitely low carb and only one teaspoon!
 
AMPS. 454 BG numbers from Libre sensor.
+1. 406. 1 teaspoon low carb 2.9%
+2. 225. 2 teaspoons low carb 6.1%
+2.5. 194. No food.
+3. 167 1 teaspoon 2-3% carbs
+4 83 1 tsp. 7.5%
+5 185 no food
 
Suzanne & Darcy said:
Oh, and that is a Libre reading, right? I haven't entered any human meter numbers into the tally ... those were just for our benefit.
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Right. Libre reading. And Woooohooo! Just saying to Ivy, this 3:00 looks a lot nicer than the other one. Really still don’t see how this will all be resolved in a neat little here’s what we gotta do daily package…but 3 pm is nice. Going to sleep now. Thank you!
 
Suzanne & Darcy said:
Well, he's done it. He has followed his pattern and is coming up at +5. Obviously he doesn't need any food and you can rest or do something else now. I think it's okay that we used low carb on him at +4. It was definitely low carb and only one teaspoon!
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I should feed him a little something LC at 5:30 though, I think. Maybe just 1/4 of a pack? Or… not?
 
I don't know about the rest of you. It's 10:00 AM in my time zone. This thread was started roughly 5 hours ago. This post is #96 (and I have changed that number about 6 times while typing). That's crazy when this is not an emergency. The same was true for yesterday when there were almost 250 posts in Merlin's thread.

Anyone looking at the number of posts will assume that a thread of this length either:
  • represents an emergency or some other critical event
  • that numerous people are responding to each and every post and there's repetition
  • there's a great deal of micro-managing going on
  • there's a controversy over strategy
  • something they cannot or will not respond too for lack of time or knowledge
What I can readily admit, is that most days, I do not have the time to wade through this number of posts. I honestly don't know who does if members are trying to help more than one person. (And I'm not being critical of Jill for posting.) My concern is that the people who are helping will get burned out even if they are doing their best to be responsive.

I do not like to skip over information. I never know what I'm missing if I do so. I just don't have the time to read everything in a thread that is routinely this long even with someone trying to post a synopsis.

Please try to consolidate your responses. Most experienced members look at the subject line to try to determine if there's an emergent issue. If there is a concern, it would be helpful if the experienced members would make a decision about who is taking the lead with providing guidance to keep things as clear and simple as possible.
 
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