9/24 Dora 300-400s :(

[Dora the Explorer]

When she was lower: https://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/9-22-dora-11-187.235761/

After her scary low and then a nice follow-up low, what is happening with Dora? She’s been high every time we test her. The only thing I will say is there is a chance she got a fur shot this morning, I was holding her and she smelled like Lantus. Yesterday I knew she was high by her behavior, not the perkiness she gets when she’s low. She was fine, just mellow and slept a lot. We gave her a rest from mid-cycle testing after her ear got mutilated in the morning when she shook her head.

What could be going on with her? Might I be giving the shots wrong? Also, it feels as if when she is at home she trends higher. Then we take her to the shore and she dives back down.

We just tested her at +4 and she’s around 400. I wish I could get this right! Thanks for reading -

jane and d

 

[Wendy&Neko]

I can see a couple possibilities. If you smell where the injection is and smell Lantus, then that's a possibility. Here is a post on Testing and Shooting Tips that might have some ideas for you. The other possibility is a bounce. She could still be bouncing from those lovely blues a couple days ago. Bounces can take six cycles to resolve, and the numbers can bobble around during that time.

 

[Dora the Explorer]

I can see a couple possibilities. If you smell where the injection is and smell Lantus, then that's a possibility. Here is a post on Testing and Shooting Tips that might have some ideas for you. The other possibility is a bounce. She could still be bouncing from those lovely blues a couple days ago. Bounces can take six cycles to resolve, and the numbers can bobble around during that time.

Thank you! 395 this morning so that indicates she got something last night at least. Since she hunkers down when I give the shot she isn’t nice and upright like the cat in that diagram but I tried for her hip. I switched to the smaller length needles a while ago and I sometimes feel it’s harder to feel them coming out. I feel it go in but not out. But she’s been down as well as up so I hope that’s not it. The 6 is so much gentler than the 12 that the vet gave me.

I hope it’s just a bounce. I guess we will see today. There are three Doras: the super sleepy grumpy one (very high), the super friendly hungry one (very low), and the in between one, which is where she’s mostly been throughout these few days. She’s been sleeping a lot, but she’s a cat and we are just sitting around working. She also walks around a bit and plays and looks out windows. And batters her sisters.