7 May Tucker AM: 105, +4: 51

[Tucker]

Tucker had his well kitty check up last week and passed with flying colours. The vet said she had never seen a cat with such extreme pancreatitis (July last year) make such a full recovery. He's been bouncing around the 120-150 pretest range and around the 90 nadir range on 1.25 Lantus. We've had a couple of hiccups (found him eating peanut butter filled pretzels last week) where he's gone high. Today at +4 I thought he wasn't trilling as I would expect so I tested him and he had dipped low. (2.5/47).
Our vet thinks there may be a correlation between Tucker going extreme hypo last July, followed by a high carb fix, then a very low dip, followed by a carb fix, and his pancreatitis. So instead of hitting him with high carb she had me mix lower / med carb food and give him bits until he leveled up slowly today. So far, so good. He's been at 60ish for a few hours now.
I'll be doing his insulin tonight and giving him his normal dinner, and testing tonight.

 

[Judy and Freckles]

Hi There,

Glad to hear the Tucker is doing so well! Your spreadsheet isn't accessible with the link you provided. With a 51 @+4 I would definitely be testing him at least every hour until his numbers come up a bit since Lantus' full effect can be anywhere from +4 - +8 (but every cat is different, so it could be wherever! lol) . Without being able to see your spreadsheet, we can't see when Tucker's nadir is at and how his numbers have been lately. I'm going to bed right away, but I thought I would let you know about your spreadsheet incase you need some help later on and people can't see the spreadsheet.

(Is it the spreadsheet from this forum? Usually a CG doesn't have to give permission to see the SS).

 

[SingsToCats]

I hope Tucker is doing better! I like the comment about him eating peanut butter filled pretzels (!) next to the avatar where he has those big, innocent eyes.