8/16 Oreo AMPS 118 +1.5 101 +3 68 +8 78 PMPS 148 +3.5 67

[Steven Oreos Dad]

https://felinediabetes.com/FDMB/thr...4-6-53-pmps-98-2-82-4-71.267154/#post-2989746

He scared me yesterday morning not wanting to eat. Midday he was hungry and this am he’s back to his piggy self.

 

[Steven Oreos Dad]

Snack +3

 

[Steven Oreos Dad]

Hey @tiffmaxee

Friday I have to go away for two days. I have no one that can check his blood sugar. But I have someone to feed him. I was thinking about showing them how to do a drop dose. I really don’t trust anyone dosing him but I just don’t see him dropping low on a drop dose. Feeding schedule will be 1/2 can at AM and PM time followed by a couple small snacks of LC +3-4 and a +9 snack. Is ps number seem to be slowly coming down and hoping if I kept him atleast on a drop might be ok. Thoughts?

 

[Wendy&Neko]

Can you try a drop dose or a 0.1 unit dose for a couple days before you go, to see how he'll do on it? I agree 0.25 units would be too high if no monitoring.

 

[Steven Oreos Dad]

Can you try a drop dose or a 0.1 unit dose for a couple days before you go, to see how he'll do on it? I agree 0.25 units would be too high if no monitoring.

I can try the drop tomorrow and Thursday. To be honest with my eyes and a head lamp with magnifying glass I can’t see the difference in 0.1 vs .25

 

[Wendy&Neko]

One thing you can do is load what you think is 0.25 units, then try gently rotating the plunger until you get a drop out. Practice getting consistent size drops and count how many are in your 0.25 units. You can try this with a used syringe and colour liquid (tea, juice, pop). You do want to make sure that what you are giving now is more than a single drop.

 

[Steven Oreos Dad]

One thing you can do is load what you think is 0.25 units, then try gently rotating the plunger until you get a drop out. Practice getting consistent size drops and count how many are in your 0.25 units. You can try this with a used syringe and colour liquid (tea, juice, pop). You do want to make sure that what you are giving now is more than a single drop.

Hmmmm I’ll try with red liquid. To confirm making sure I understand 0.1 is more than a drop dose right? I recall last goround firmly pressing on plunger and releasing to fill only the 6mm needle. maybe I can take a pic. Of what I think is .25

 

[Wendy&Neko]

The question is whether your 0.1 unit dose is more than a drop. Typically it is more, but depends on syringes etc.

 

[Diane Tyler's Mom GA]

Pictorial guide using a U-100 syringe marked with half units:

A drop dose. Push hard on the plunger, insert into the pen/vial/cartridge, let the vacuum pressure suck up a drop., then when you shoot try and leave the syringe in for 10 seconds

 

[Steven Oreos Dad]

Pictorial guide using a U-100 syringe marked with half units:

A drop dose. Push hard on the plunger, insert into the pen/vial/cartridge, let the vacuum pressure suck up a drop., then when you shoot try and leave the syringe in for 10 seconds

Geeezzzzz I may be giving him closer to 0.1 He’s on such a low dose maybe I need to find a better magnifying glass. I have a white backdrop that helps a lot but I’ll see what I can find stronger than this

 

[Steven Oreos Dad]

Pictorial guide using a U-100 syringe marked with half units:

A drop dose. Push hard on the plunger, insert into the pen/vial/cartridge, let the vacuum pressure suck up a drop., then when you shoot try and leave the syringe in for 10 seconds

This is what I see as a .25

 

[Steven Oreos Dad]

Just tried drop dose with the syringes that I have and pressing firmly and releasing is not producing a visible drop. I can’t find any reliOn brand at Walmart locally which I have pressed hard and got a drop that was visable.

 

[Steven Oreos Dad]

+3.5 67
Snack

 

[tiffmaxee]

I didn’t have internet most of the day so missed your tag.Did you count the drops in your .25?

 

[Steven Oreos Dad]

I didn’t have internet most of the day so missed your tag.Did you count the drops in your .25?

No problem glad you got it back. There where 5 drops in my .25

 

[tiffmaxee]

So you could try and see what you get at 0.10 or see if you can get a drop with your syringes.

 

[Steven Oreos Dad]

So you could try and see what you get at 0.10 or see if you can get a drop with your syringes.

I was playing with it and going the opposite and push down on the plunger and did a turn of the plunger and I was able to make one drop

 

[tiffmaxee]

So try that. If not enough you can go to 0.10 or back to .25 when you can monitor. Sounds good.

 

[Steven Oreos Dad]

So try that. If not enough you can go to 0.10 or back to .25 when you can monitor. Sounds good.

Ok sounds good. Ty