Don't know what to do... 0.5iu is not enough 0.75iu too much!

[Brie’s Mom]

I just can't seem to figure this out!
Brie was doing really well when we switched to Basaglar at the end of May. She was on 1u and then started dropping lower often so we went down to 0.75u. This seemed to work well for a while again but the same thing started happening so we went down to 0.5u.... ok numbers for a bit and then just getting higher and higher - went back up to 0.75 and she dropped to 3.3mmol (59) so we went back down and again the numbers kept getting higher! She hit 24mmol (432) a few days ago that was higher than when she was initially diagnosed (23.5mmol). I started back up on 0.75u the next day and again she dropped lower today.......

I just don't know where to go from here. I feed her low carb wet FF and Friskies but have been topping her up when she drops with Royal Canin HC wet... She gets fed at shot time and a snack +2. Has anyone tried feeding LC dry (tiki Cat dry 11% carbs) at her snack time to help the BG rise slowly throught her cycle? It's the only thing I can think of.

The 0.75 is hard enough to measure on the 3/10cc needles that I can't imagine having to do a skinny/fat dose.

ANY HELP OR TIPS WOULD BE GREAT!

*I know I don't have a lot of numbers for PM - She is really hard to test and I have a chronic illness that makes me exhausted at night. Doing the best I can...

 

[tiffmaxee]

Doing a skinny/fat dose is easy if you use digital.
https://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/dosing-with-calipers-updated-w-videos.79851/#post-862835

 

[Brie’s Mom]

Doing a skinny/fat dose is easy if you use digital.
https://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/dosing-with-calipers-updated-w-videos.79851/#post-862835

I have calipers but because the dose is so small it's almost impossible to get a precise measurement. Maybe I just bought bad calipers but I have not been able to make it work.

 

[Wendy&Neko]

Which brand of calipers did you buy? If you are using the BD syringes (being in Canada that's the most common), you need calipers with smaller arms that measure the insides of things. That's so that you can get inside the ring on the outside of the BD's. I used a magnifier as well. You can get head mounted magnifiers, though I used a hand held. These are the type of calipers I used, though my hubby bought them at the local metal/woodworking tool store for a lot less. Note that the small arms on the top are quite a bit thinner than the big arms below, which are used to measure the outsides of things.