Buttons - 07/22

[Victoria & Buttons]

These past few days have been up and down so I know there isnt a lot of data to go on, but last night I took her sugars then gave her her bedtime snack and took it again. It went from 13.2 (237) to 21.2 (381). She did not eat any dry dog food in that period and she is on the same food, FF Chicken feast and turkey and giblets feast. When I put her on FF, it did amazing with her sugars, so I'm a bit lost as to what is going on now. I'm assuming I need to up her dose again?

 

[Sheila & Beau GA & Jeddie GA]

It does make it hard to tel what a shot is doing if you don't have a starting point AND the nadir - so where the evening preshot test is missing, we don't know where her BG was. It's probably unlikely that she was really low.

Can you shoot a "fat" .5u? That would be between .5u and .75u. You might have to practice with a used syringe and some water or something (really black coffee might be visible in the syringe). Or you can try doing the drop method linked from the Lev 101 sticky at the top of the forum page. If you can do the drop method and get .6u I would try that next. Looking at the earlier numbers it might be that her best dose is between .75u and 1u, but you don't want to jump all the way up there in one step as that would be almost a 100% increase in dose.

 

[Victoria & Buttons]

So with the drop method, if I'm registering this correctly, is if I put .75u in the syringe and then proceed to twist and flick off 1 bead of insulin, that would give me .65u? and if I wanted to go down to .55u I would twist and flick off another? Am I correct?

If so, I think I may be able to do it. Whenever I pull too much now, I never knew to twist, but I kinda keep pushing really lightly to get a bead to flick off to get to the right amount, so it might be easy enough for me. Thank you for your help Sheila!

 

[Sheila & Beau GA & Jeddie GA]

Yes, that is correct! Twisting gives you much more control over pushing. I always ended up pushing uot too much no matter now gently I tried to push. Someone else here posted about twisting - gosh, over three years ago, I think. Brilliant!