6/30 Minnie PMPS 63 +2.5 50 +4 52 +4.5 44 +5 55 +5.5 57 +6.25 72 +8.5 56 +9.5 60 +10 82

That's two cycles of mostly green, I wonder if there's a bouncie coming...

I apparently shouldn't have yelled at her to get out of the yellows :p
 
Wow. Have you ever tried to just see what she does without the continual feeding when she’s in the green? In the daytime perhaps. It is possible that she would stay in safe green numbers. I’m just wondering.

Minnie’s ears are going to look red after last night.
 
Hey...Minnie is doing an encore and BG dropping. She is HUNGRY. Should I feed her as yesterday or let it ride and see what happens to her numbers? Will add more questions but want to get this out there now. Feels like she's now asking for a decrease but the numbers don't support that (yet).

We're nearly at +10 so I'm leaning towards feeding her a decent amount of LC now...but if I don't maybe she will drop lower and we get a decrease?
 
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Minnie is on a tear:D.
Since you're asking for opinions, I personally find that when Butters is really asking for a decrease, her numbers will drop even if I feed her an LC snack.

If it were butters and she was hungry and numbers were dropping at the end of a cycle, I'd give her some LC as an "insurance snack" to see if I can get her to stay >50 through to PMPS.
 
I see the edit. With Butters, I never liked to see if her numbers would just drop because she never held reductions well. So I liked for her to earn them by going below 50 with food on board.
If Minnie holds reductions well, then maybe it would be worth trying your strategy.
 
Butters & Lyla said:
I see the edit. With Butters, I never liked to see if her numbers would just drop because she never held reductions well. So I liked for her to earn them by going below 50 with food on board.
If Minnie holds reductions well, then maybe it would be worth trying your strategy.
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I like that. I don’t like to see people try to let their cat go below 50 by withholding food.
 
OK, thanks everyone! My instinct was to feed her but I was wondering if it was the wrong thing to do. This is their typical dinner time - they always come sniffing for food around now, no matter when PMPS is! The 630am/pm schedule actually worked quite well for Minnie except for my oversleeping and her requiring stalling.

She just about licked the pattern off the plate. I'm running on about 3h sleep last night. In some ways, the stinky pinks are a lot easier to live with!
 
Well that seemed to take the edge off - they are both snoozing now AND since they were so hungry I gave them the frickazee which they ate right up! It has not been popular lately.... another hour or so before PMPS and hope she stays over 50. I don't want to stall again.

Then I get to return to my other pesky concern, finding another pet sitter for next week since the previous one is no longer taking 'complicated animals that need >1 visit a day' and the other (who bailed on my last time) has family in town so isn't free....she tried to convince me to do boarding at the vet. Just got those details, seems suboptimal. $35 each + $13 for the insulin +$ for BG testing. This is a full time job.
 
There's only one place in NYC that I would trust for boarding, and they charge $60/night for diabetic cats. :confused::facepalm: A week long vacay adds up, not to mention getting someone to look in on the civvie at home once a day. Glad I got my travel bug out of the way when they were young!
 
6/30 Minnie AMPS 70 +2.25 110 +4 109 +8 84 +9 64

Sigh. 50 @+2.5. Here we go again. This is not sustainable (for me). What do I do?
 
Bandit's Mom said:
Wow! A/D again tonight?
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At first she refused a/d so I gave her some Tiny Tiger which is only LC, but after that she took the a/d and I've just dug out some DM selects which are 10.4%. How am I going to get any sleep tonight?? I only had about 3 last night. I'm ready for the reduction even if her numbers aren't there yet! o_O

LOL Minnie has missed her time with Auntie Bhooma :cat::D
 
She had 1tsp low MC (DM Selects ~11%) an hour ago and is still only at 52. Should I feed her more of that? I have some 14-15% too but she's being so picky there's no guarantee she'll eat.

I haven't been poking every 30minutes, it's too much... but I am going to need to get some sleep tonight, I'm feeling like a zombie after last night.

And can somebody help me identify her nadir?! Is it the PM+2/AM +14? I am so confused by her green residency!! I am so much more comfortable with handling the high numbers!!
 
After 30min she dropped to 44, gave her some DM but she wouldn't take much. Found some Tiki After Dark chicken/quail egg that I previously marked as 14% MC so I gave her a bunch of the gravy with a bit of meat and she loved it. Double checking carbs now.
 
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After 30min she dropped to 44, gave her some DM but she wouldn't take much. Found some Tiki After Dark chicken/quail egg that I previously marked as 14% MC so I gave her a bunch of the gravy with a bit of meat and she loved it. Double checking carbs now.
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Yep, they sent me their as fed and dry matter carbs/protein/fat and both calculate up to 14.6%. Hopefully she will keep taking the sauce.
 
I gave her almost all the sauce from the MC and she went up from 44 to 55. Digging out some 20% beef gravy lover now, but in the past I think I was as successful with karo mixed in a/d. Is the HC better?
 
Sorry all the posts! Should I feed her a bit more now she's hit 55 or wait 30min then test then feed?

They are both mocking me, lying on the bed getting comfy as if to say - why aren't you in bed yet?
 
Bandit's Mom said:
Just seeing these. Sorry. MC might be fine likes like. Did you feed any more?
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no worries, I know that Minnie is not your only concern! Just don't tell her that, diva that she is. I gave her more of the afterdark gravy, worried about keeping her appetite up for a lot more hours potentially. About to do a 30min re-poke. Have some a/d ready with a few drops of karo which I mixed up before I knew she liked the after dark.
 
55 at +5. More 14% gravy at +5.25. 57 at +5.5.

I'm tempted to give her the a/d with a few drops of karo just to bump her up. I have no idea what her nadir is (+16.5?!) but we can't do this for hours. She is giving me some attitude with the last pokey and I'm not surprised. There is not much space unscabbed.
 
Bandit's Mom said:
Go for it. You need sleep
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I had to do the stealthy 'put the bowl in front of her and walk away so she doesn't know you want her to eat' technique....

ETA - she finished that A/D with karo and then got up and emptied 2 of Sam's unfinished bowls of food - DM selects and I think some A/D and maybe some frickazee. Poor little guy is getting whatever she rejects.
 
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Liz & Minnie said:
At first she refused a/d so I gave her some Tiny Tiger which is only LC, but after that she took the a/d and I've just dug out some DM selects which are 10.4%. How am I going to get any sleep tonight?? I only had about 3 last night. I'm ready for the reduction even if her numbers aren't there yet! o_O

LOL Minnie has missed her time with Auntie Bhooma :cat::D
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You may have something there…
 
Liz & Minnie said:
55 at +5. More 14% gravy at +5.25. 57 at +5.5.

I'm tempted to give her the a/d with a few drops of karo just to bump her up. I have no idea what her nadir is (+16.5?!) but we can't do this for hours. She is giving me some attitude with the last pokey and I'm not surprised. There is not much space unscabbed.
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Oh I definitely did this before…. Gave karo in order to get some sleep a little. It got to where I knew how many points the Karo would add to his BG and how long it would last and how long it would take to drop back down so I knew exactly when to set my alarm to wake up. I hope you can sleep today some too - daytime naps?
 
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