Don't want to say the R word yet....
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Carl & Polly & Bob (GA)
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When did Cello eat this evening?
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Carl & Polly & Bob (GA)
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Not "what", but "when" and you answered that too.....
OK, so he ate at 5, which made his BG rise "all the way up" to 148, which is perfectly normal after eating..... and then for the next couple of hours, he went about his business while Mr. Pancreas did his job, and pushed the BG down to 68, which is a perfectly normal, non diabetic number. I'd say this is just the way nature intended!
The only thing I see wrong with this picture.....you said he ate at 5? And you tested at 6 and almost shot but decided to wait?
Was that the sequence of events?
Carl
OK, so he ate at 5, which made his BG rise "all the way up" to 148, which is perfectly normal after eating..... and then for the next couple of hours, he went about his business while Mr. Pancreas did his job, and pushed the BG down to 68, which is a perfectly normal, non diabetic number. I'd say this is just the way nature intended!
The only thing I see wrong with this picture.....you said he ate at 5? And you tested at 6 and almost shot but decided to wait?
Was that the sequence of events?
Carl
ya.... that's pretty much right.
Not really on a schedule anymore, so I'm not really testing at any set times, just whenever I think about it, wasn't home at dinner time, the automatic feeders did the job for me...... and I tested right when i got home, I didn't give him a shot because I wasn't sure exactly when he had eaten, so I would have waited for a few hours even if he had been above 150.
I won't shoot unless he is above 150 and rising.....
When I said I was getting "ready to shoot", I don't mean right then, all I meant was I figured at some point tonight he would go up and need a shot since he had steadily been going up since yesterday. Typically he has been slowly going up and not going down so I just figured that was what was going to happen, thank goodness for home testing.
Not really on a schedule anymore, so I'm not really testing at any set times, just whenever I think about it, wasn't home at dinner time, the automatic feeders did the job for me...... and I tested right when i got home, I didn't give him a shot because I wasn't sure exactly when he had eaten, so I would have waited for a few hours even if he had been above 150.
I won't shoot unless he is above 150 and rising.....
When I said I was getting "ready to shoot", I don't mean right then, all I meant was I figured at some point tonight he would go up and need a shot since he had steadily been going up since yesterday. Typically he has been slowly going up and not going down so I just figured that was what was going to happen, thank goodness for home testing.
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Carl & Polly & Bob (GA)
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Ah, okay. But....
If you get to a point where you really consider shooting, you have to make sure that "food" is not the reason his BG is high. You want to make sure that the number you are considering came from a time when he had not had any food to eat for at least two hours or more. Otherwise, you are shooting a number that isn't really as "high" as you think it is once you give his pancreas ample time to fight off the rise.
I haven't run any kind of curve on Bob since he went off the juice, so I don't know what his numbers go up to at the high point after eating. I suspect he might get close to 100, but don't really know. I test him now about every 10 days, just whenever I happen to think about it during the day or night. Totally random times. But I've never caught him higher than 69. I've also never tested him 60-90 minutes after dinner, but maybe I'll try that next time just to see. Night before last I checked him and got a 53.
I remarked to the vet tech yesterday when Bob had an appointment that "last night I tested him and got a 53". I thought she'd be thrilled! She looked at me all concerned and said "well, that's sort of low, isn't it? I thought, OMG, she doesn't have a clue what "normal" is???? So I said, "Well, that was on my relion meter, not an alphatrack", and she nodded, smiled, and said "Oh, OK!" Jeez.
Carl
If you get to a point where you really consider shooting, you have to make sure that "food" is not the reason his BG is high. You want to make sure that the number you are considering came from a time when he had not had any food to eat for at least two hours or more. Otherwise, you are shooting a number that isn't really as "high" as you think it is once you give his pancreas ample time to fight off the rise.
I haven't run any kind of curve on Bob since he went off the juice, so I don't know what his numbers go up to at the high point after eating. I suspect he might get close to 100, but don't really know. I test him now about every 10 days, just whenever I happen to think about it during the day or night. Totally random times. But I've never caught him higher than 69. I've also never tested him 60-90 minutes after dinner, but maybe I'll try that next time just to see. Night before last I checked him and got a 53.
I remarked to the vet tech yesterday when Bob had an appointment that "last night I tested him and got a 53". I thought she'd be thrilled! She looked at me all concerned and said "well, that's sort of low, isn't it? I thought, OMG, she doesn't have a clue what "normal" is???? So I said, "Well, that was on my relion meter, not an alphatrack", and she nodded, smiled, and said "Oh, OK!" Jeez.
Carl
sometimes cello goes down right after he eats! it's crazy, so I never shoot unless I know he is rising and not tied to food, I test my other cat intermittently and she has never been even close to 100, that's why I still think cello isn't there yet, but who knows, maybe his normal numbers are a bit higher.... only time will tell!!! I believe it was you on one of my first posts who said ECID 
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Yeah, sounds like something I would say. ;-)
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Rob & Harley (GA)
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Yay for you and Cello dancing_cat dancing_cat .
We usually wait 2 weeks OTJ to call it official. You are well into the count down.
Go Cello go!!
We usually wait 2 weeks OTJ to call it official. You are well into the count down.
Go Cello go!!
I'm hesitant to use any words cause I really have nooooooo idea. But I'm just happy that he is doing so well, he has brought the siamese obnoxious up to a whole new level, my little :twisted: kitty is back!
Sue and Oliver (GA)
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Things are looking great. You are becoming an expert on mini dosing - didn't take you long to figure this sugar dance out!
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