Buddy's lousy week

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Marci and Buddy

Marci and Buddy

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seems as if he lost his chance at blues with the dose reduction, so went back to last best dose,1u...but
after 6 cycles he hasn't seen anything better :cry: ...any suggestions more than welcome.
 
I vote for an increase, although I have a question. On 4/4 did you give the AM shot at +11? That would explain why he dropped to the 40s within a few hours. You extended his overlap/shed and it spilled over. That also seems to suggest you're close to a good dose. Have you ever tried raising or lowering doses in increments smaller than .25U? I see that you have done 1.4U before. I know it's very difficult to measure accurately every time, but if you can practice Sheila's drop method down by filling to 1.5U and squeezing off so many drops to get to what you want to call 1.1U, I am curious if raising in small increments like this would help level him out. You would stay at that dose for several days before raising again by another .1U. Yes, he's going to sit in the 200s or so, but at least those are more stable and better numbers than going from 300s to 50s, for example.

I suggest this because it's the only way I've been able to determine a good dose for Gandalf, by doing very small, very slow increases. If you look at his spreadsheet for Dec., you can see that dose is 1.3U. It's the only month of the year where my work schedule allows me to keep him at a regular 12/12 schedule for most days.

Times like now, after a period where he goes too low and I have to drop his dose, he never holds that lower dose regulation, so I have to increase again. I've had to increase enough times that I know 1.3U is the target, but things go haywire if I just go back to that dose. I have to increase .1U at a time and with my micrometer I can actually increase in .05U increments. That would probably be about half a drop. You saw Sheila's macro pictures of drops, right?

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I also think you are very near the right dose, so making the tiny changes will take longer to show an effect. If I can borrow from Ilkka and use the ocean liner analogy (ocean liners make big, slow, arcing turns) - if a "normal" turn is slow and covers a lot of ocean (days) then a smaller turn input (turn the wheel less) will make the turn take much longer. Is that making any sense?

Anyway, you could hold the 1u a few more cycles or go to a fat 1u. On my syringes (GNP) the stopper would not even clear the bottom of the line, but it would be below the top of the line (my lines are .2u thick).
 
Thank you Vicky and Sheila..V-that day was not shot at +11, was 12/12...and you are right about smaller increases. Buddy's sensitivity to .25 increases has proved to be way too much.Lately it's been by a tenth(from 1 to .9), and now i guess i'll go up to 1.1.
(I have studied Sheila's droplette pics-very useful.)As it turns out, he did see blue today..
do you still think i should up the dose or wait?
 
(Oy! I'm getting so confused between these two threads.....)

I would increase only because his blue was a high blue (and maybe a little to try that "jolt" that Illka mentioned in the *other* thread).
 
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