Baco amps 349 dosing advice

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Ruby&Baco

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hello,

Well I think her great numbers decided to quite by themself.... :(
Her amps is 349 now. Should I give her 0.60 again? (I gave this dose a couple of days ago when she had these numbers. Or should I stick with 0.40 like the last 2 days?
 
I have to give her her shot now. So I'll go with my guts and give her 0.60. This was the dose earlier last week and this dose worked for her.
I'm only a little scared that this dose will get her down but her pancreas will also work during the day..... I'm not home to monitor.
We'll see where tis leads us.
Fingers crossed!

Hope to hear from you if this was a good choice to do.
 
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Hi Ruby. Sorry we weren't here! Weekends over, so we were probably all in bed. Your AMPS hits at midnight for me!

I think that was fine. Don't be discouraged. More than likely the pancreas were helping out and are taking a break. Usually I don't think the pancreas just hop in and keep going. I think they usually hop in for a few cycles, take a rest, hop back in...sputter basically.

She had a GREAT few cycles...and I think you will get more. :)
 
Thanks Rachel.
I know that my AMPS hits at midnight for you all, that's sometimes a challenge ;)

Rachel said:
Don't be discouraged
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Will try, but it's hard haha. I know that her pancreas IS working for sure, that's a fact. But now it will be a waiting game to see when it will kick in again.

Will contact the forum again at PMPS, i'm hoping to see her blue numbers again tonight! I miss them already :cool::bighug:
 
Sorry, Ruby! I know I'm usually around at your shot time for this cycle; I just compleetely crashed & burned last night!:eek: But you did great on going with the 0.60 dose ;) - and I agree with @Rachel & @Bobbie And Bubba - sometimes there are just little "fits & starts" from the pancreas along the way. Why? :confused:Who knows?:facepalm: It just ... happens along the way.o_O Overall, Baco is doing great ... so don't let this get you down, ok?:bighug:
 
Just had a thought ... have you been slowly and systematically reducing Baco's daily rations? Because gradually doing that will help her lose the extra weight and will help you get her BG#s better regulated, too. (I know you don't have the scale just yet ...I will look for the Amazon link you'd asked me about;:oops: I'm sorry, I forgot all about that!:blackeye:)
 
What do you mean with rations? I don't know what that means! Haha
Oh I already found a baby scale. Will buy it in 2 days :bighug:
 
This is the one I have: http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Bathr...464015086&sr=8-1&keywords=mother+&+baby+scale
But there are others, like: http://www.amazon.com/Health-meter-...TF8&qid=1464015213&sr=8-1&keywords=baby+scale
(With the second type, the only trouble is that you have to make sure the cat stays on the scale while you are weighing, which is why I got the kind where I can hold her instead. Maybe the "step-on" scale was not the best choice (in terms of the Amazon customer ratings) but it works for me.;)
 
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What do you mean with rations? I don't know what that means! Haha
Oh I already found a baby scale. Will buy it in 2 days :bighug:
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Ha, we cross-posted! I'm sorry ... "rations" means "food." You are so good at English that I often forget that it is not your own language!:D:p

P.S. Good, I'm glad you found a scale & that you'll have it soon.:)
 
Well she gets the amount of a cat that weigh 5.5KG (don't know how many lbs) but she does already get less then she should considering her weight (6.5KG is what she is, but that was om 4/6/16 when she was diagnosed)
She got it right when she started going on 100% raw food. So she doesn't eat to much.

btw Baco's +10.5 is 169 (just came home) She's rocking those blue # again like a pro!:cool:
Will test her PMPS in 30 minutes, because I will give her shot a little earlier (+11 / +11.5) instead of +12 because I messed up the schedule a little bit.
 
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Although,, should I give her a shot being at 169? I'm not really sure?
And if she's at 169 at PMPS, should I be a dare devil and try 0.60 instead of 0.40??
The 0.40 hasn't brought her in her green # yet...
And I can monitor this PM..
 
5.5KG is 12,12LBS, does that make sense?
The vet wants her to be between 5.5 to 6KG. (12,12 - 13,22LBS)
 
Ruby&Baco said:
Although,, should I give her a shot being at 169? I'm not really sure?
And if she's at 169 at PMPS, should I be a dare devil and try 0.60 instead of 0.40??
The 0.40 hasn't brought her in her green # yet...
And I can monitor this PM..
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Ruby, you don't really know for certain that she didn't drop to a lower (green) # earlier, as we have no mid-cycle data here. At PMPS, I would check the #, then hold off feeding for 10 min and recheck that # - let's see if her #s are rising (and continuing to rise) before you make a dosing decision, ok?
 
will do! .. 20 minutes past her previous shot now is 167 so she it dropping a little..
So, stall again for 20 minutes?
 
Ruby&Baco said:
will do! .. 20 minutes past her previous shot now is 167 so she it dropping a little..
So, stall again for 20 minutes?
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Yes, definitely keep stalling for now ... as she is still dropping.
Also, if you can, I would wait until +11.5 rather than +11.o, because you can give the shot a little earlier next cycle to get that shot time back to +11.
 
You want to be shooting into a rising number, not one that is still falling to a lower BG.

Additional note: That dropping BG # is telling me that the 0.60 you shot is still affecting her.
 
Robin&BB said:
That dropping BG # is telling me that the 0.60 you shot is still affecting her.
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I think so to, and maybe her pancreas is helping out a little because her AMPS was so high, and she never really dropped that low in a cycle (from being in a high AMPS)
 
Waiting makes good sense to me. There are two parts to my concern here:
1) She just had a dose increase.
2) Her BG #s are continuing to drop at this new dose at her next shot time - and you are wanting to shoot her earlier, too, so this adds to the "risk factor" in your desire to shoot her at a lower than normal number. It would be different if she had not just had a dose increase and her #s were showing higher, but that's not the situation we have here because she's still dropping. Does that make sense to you?
 
I understand. You know what, I will test her at +12.. I think that's better right? Just give her some time.
Will get back to you at +12 (will be in 50 minutes)
 
Right? it will give her more time to drop or the raise her #, and you can see a bigger (hopefully_ difference because of the almost hour that is between the tests.
 
PMPS is 189, what should I give her? I can't monitor her long (max +4) so maybe 0.40 again? or 0.50 to try?
 
It if were me (since you can monitor through +4), I'd probably go for the 0.50 tonight. (And if you happen to get up during the night sometime after +4, try to get another test then, just so you have a better idea of where she's at later in the cycle.)
 
You know ... that she was still dropping earlier (and so late in this cycle) tends to makes me think she probably did get into some green numbers when you weren't around to test her.

(There's a cheery though, huh?;))
 
Sorry!!! My best friend called me on the phone for over an hour and I did read everything what you guys told me and even managed to give Baco her dose while talking on the phone. (multitasking like a pro!:cool:)
I did gave her 0.50 because I thought 0.40 brought here not in her green # the last couple of days so and I'm around to monitor this PM cycle so that's why I did go with 0.50..
But I just now see that you were advising 0.40 :nailbiting: hope everything will go well.. 15 minutes from now it will be +1 So I will test her again. I'm curious..

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tends to makes me think she probably did get into some green numbers when you weren't around to test her.
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let's hope she got some green ones! :D
 
You will probably be okay with the .50. That 's what I was thinking initially but second guessed myself because of the monitoring. If you see her dropping to much to fast, give her a little of Minnnie's food. You know what to do.;)
 
Yes, I think she will be fine with 0.50! let's see what numbers we get tonight! GO BACO :D:D:D:D

Bobbie And Bubba said:
If you see her dropping to much to fast, give her a little of Minnnie's food. You know what to do.;)
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I'm a pro when it comes to stiring her up ;) I know exactly what to do, i'm like a ninja.. 1,2,3 and she's will be back up in # hahaha:smuggrin:

Bat-Bat didn't want her shot then I guess... She wants to do it on her own ;)
Maybe her pancreas just kicked in, because the last couple off days you 2 were doing fine right.. You wonder what happend.. Maybe the dose was to much (although it is really small) but maybe too much for Bat-Bat?
 
Robin thanks for posting the links for the scales, I know they were meant for Ruby, but it helped me :) Just ordered the mother/baby one to keep an eye on my Hyper-T girls weight since shes losing alot with her dose out of wack :bighug:
 
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