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all4mymarine

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I'm checking in and asking for someone to check out my SS.

I was sticking with 1.1 (or a f1, which is basically the same thing as 1.1) for several cycles but eventually it just didn't seem like enough. I increased to s1.2. Numbers are even worse. I stuck with that for several cycles. This morning I increased to just a 1.2. Don't know how that is going to work out yet.

Any idea why he's not responding to the same dose he used to respond so well too (1.1)? He's still eating well and seems like he feels okay once he gets out of the 400's and high 300's. I just want him out of thess high numbers already. I can't check him for ketones because he's a sneaky litter box kitty, otherwise I would.

Any suggestions, other than slowly raising the dose to see if I get a good response? I've had the same vial since mid June. I haven't left it out for more than a few hours and never in sunlight. Would it already need replacing?
 
I'm pretty much in the same boat as you are. Alex responds much the same way to 1.6 vs 1.8. The last few days your highs are higher than ours and your lows have been a little lower.

I don't think the insulin should have pooped out already.
 
Wow, I see what you mean. I liked his numbers a bit more on a lower dose, but he's had other periods when he was lower where things weren't good too. He's sort of all over the place, isn't he? It does look like things got worse since you increased dose the past few days though. I could be wrong (very probable since I'm still learning!) but it almost looks to me like starting all over on a lower dose (say 0.8U) might be a good plan. It seems that each time you've increased his dose, he ends up having a very flat curve. Could he be getting too much, rather than not enough, insulin?
 
Your dose range here is so small, I don't think an increase of only 0.2u is causing a rebound case that would warrant lowering the dose imo. It looks like after you had to skip the shots on the 20th and 21st, you lost some momentum there and have been seeing less and less blue/green numbers since. To me, this just looks like a case of needing to build up momentum again till you get another breakthrough. When you get a much lower than normal preshot, *as long as it is a definitively rising number* you might consider shooting a chicken dose (like 0.5u or 0.4u) into the number to keep insulin in his system. Just my $0.02, but me personally, I'd stick with 1.2u for a few more days.
 
Interesting insight, Kelly. I've given "chicken" doses in the past but wasn't sure if it was a good idea or not! It makes sense, since usually flat curves mean too little insulin. I guess some cats just take a while to settle into doses.
 
Well I figured if he was getting too much insulin then he would be going lower and we'd see at least some blues. I'll stick with a true 1.2 for a few cycles and see what happens. It's just really perplexing that I'm not getting as good results with a 1.2 where I was getting #'s too low with .8 a couple of weeks ago! Just trying to get some ideas on maybe why this is happening. I knew it probably wasn't a rebound because I haven't seen any #'s to indicate cause for a rebound.

I'll keep that in mind to shoot into a lower than normal rising PS!
 
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