Re: 8/29 Weeble AMPS 140 +2 (50) +3 (48) +4 (114) Thanks, Catsip
I have two trains of thought going on right now with regards to Weeble. I’ll share them with you and we can discuss.
1. When Lucy was on a tiny dose of insulin, she loved to surf low. I was fighting to keep her out of the 40’s and 50’s, but it finally occurred to me that the 50’s weren’t scary in themselves, what had always been scary about them was the potential that they would drop even lower. I started encouraging her to eat a little low carb food (not going straight to high carb) and testing to see if that kept her from dropping to scary levels (for me that was 30’s). It did. That amount of insulin should be small enough to be able to be overcome with low carb, but you would need to do some experimenting and testing to be sure that is true for your cat.
2. But, Weeble won’t reliably eat wet food. We don’t know if dry food is enough to keep her out of the 30’s, and we don’t really know if she felt low and went to eat some dry, whether that would bring her up quickly enough. The numbers from the last couple of cycles make me think that it might not.
Normally we wouldn’t start a trial with preshot numbers this high, but because she won’t let us use the tools we’re used to using to try to bring those numbers down, I think we have little choice but to try OTJ. It is too much of a struggle for you to bring up the low numbers. I have no doubt that if Weeble wasn’t eating dry, that she would be ready for OTJ. With the dry food, I don’t know, but we can try and see what happens. It’s up to you, what do you think? Let's talk about it.
