Daphne#5 GA
Member Since 2011
yesterday http://felinediabetes.com/FDMB/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=73656
Sorry for the very late post, one of those days.
Well the daddy bean slept late, right through the alarm and so this is what he saw at 8:30 AM (AMPS 70), instead of the usual 5:30 AM, a shock :shock: for sure. If you have been following Daphne's higher AMPS since the start, and know I've been trying everything to get that one number to cooperate, it was a shock to see the 70 this morning for DH. He does mornings, and I do afternoons, and I also do one morning on the weekend for DH to sleep in. Anyway, while it was a shock for DH, it wasn't a surprise for me. Oh, and the auto feeder was set to open at her usual time at 5:30am. I know Daphne's pancreas is working a bit and we see all the time that the food brings her down. And I have guessed for a while that her higher AMPS is from the dawn effect http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/dawn-effect/AN01213
so it makes some sense that if we didn't test at 5:30 AM while the "dawn effect" is still in effect, (usually from 2AM to 8AM), that if we do the AMPS later, after the hormones settle back to normal her AMPS would be better, and so today I guess I proved my theory.
BUT unfortunately I am not a scientist, (that would be Marj and maybe some others on the board). I was the one who slept through science class
:roll: . So whoever reads this can find it interesting, but thats about all I would take from it. ECID, and KTC, is what is important. I know Daphne very well now, and she is probably one of the more predictable kitties on the board (anti jinx), and she is also on a very low amount of insulin, 0.1, or one drop.
So we will be working to get back on schedule for the work week. I want to eventually get her on the 9am to 9pm schedule, since I think we will see better AMPSs, but I am a night person, and my illness is hindering my ability to change this.
The good thing is Daphne is happy, and her vet appt. yesterday went well. She had me on the deck for 3 hours today, of course, she earned that from her hard day yesterday. The vet called last night, and told me one thing about the blood work, and I can't figure out if she said, bin or bun, whichever it was, she said, Daphne improved a lot. It was 60 when she was dx in Nov. 2011, and now it was 28, I think it has to do with her liver.
OK, enough of this science stuff.
I hope everyone has a good weekend.
Sending vines to all the kitties and beans who need them today.
Sorry for the very late post, one of those days.
Well the daddy bean slept late, right through the alarm and so this is what he saw at 8:30 AM (AMPS 70), instead of the usual 5:30 AM, a shock :shock: for sure. If you have been following Daphne's higher AMPS since the start, and know I've been trying everything to get that one number to cooperate, it was a shock to see the 70 this morning for DH. He does mornings, and I do afternoons, and I also do one morning on the weekend for DH to sleep in. Anyway, while it was a shock for DH, it wasn't a surprise for me. Oh, and the auto feeder was set to open at her usual time at 5:30am. I know Daphne's pancreas is working a bit and we see all the time that the food brings her down. And I have guessed for a while that her higher AMPS is from the dawn effect http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/dawn-effect/AN01213
so it makes some sense that if we didn't test at 5:30 AM while the "dawn effect" is still in effect, (usually from 2AM to 8AM), that if we do the AMPS later, after the hormones settle back to normal her AMPS would be better, and so today I guess I proved my theory.
BUT unfortunately I am not a scientist, (that would be Marj and maybe some others on the board). I was the one who slept through science class
:roll: . So whoever reads this can find it interesting, but thats about all I would take from it. ECID, and KTC, is what is important. I know Daphne very well now, and she is probably one of the more predictable kitties on the board (anti jinx), and she is also on a very low amount of insulin, 0.1, or one drop. So we will be working to get back on schedule for the work week. I want to eventually get her on the 9am to 9pm schedule, since I think we will see better AMPSs, but I am a night person, and my illness is hindering my ability to change this.
The good thing is Daphne is happy, and her vet appt. yesterday went well. She had me on the deck for 3 hours today, of course, she earned that from her hard day yesterday. The vet called last night, and told me one thing about the blood work, and I can't figure out if she said, bin or bun, whichever it was, she said, Daphne improved a lot. It was 60 when she was dx in Nov. 2011, and now it was 28, I think it has to do with her liver.
OK, enough of this science stuff.
I hope everyone has a good weekend.
Sending vines to all the kitties and beans who need them today.
