Tara L
Member Since 2016
Hi all,
I finally made my spreadsheet - I've just included January for now until I can get everything back through August posted.
Diego has been on zero or very low carb food for months now and generally while he has changes in his sugar here and there, he remains mostly steady. Was a little wonky recently, but I suspect the insulin vial needed replaced, and got it refilled. He had a brief lower period in December when I was out of town, but of course in that case, we had to elect to skip some doses versus reducing them (since no one was available overnight to test him).
On Friday (two days ago), I switched him from RadCat raw and some TikiCat, to Stella & Chewy's frozen rabbit morsels in an attempt to help his really bad diarrhea from IBD - he's lost a ton of weight. While I'm well aware of the impact a diet change can have (been through it before and home tested like crazy), if anything, I expected his BG to go up slightly on this new food, since the prior foods generally seemed to have little to no effect on his levels.
He's been low the last 48 hours, and super low today, and that was on a reduced dose of insulin (note I indicated these as 1/2 unit but really I can barely see on the syringes below the 1 unit line, so this is an eyeball guesstimate on the amount). Debating if I should shoot a super low amount tonight depending on where he's at at dose time and test him overnight, or skip it altogether? If this is a possible chance at remission, I don't want to mess it up by removing insulin completely too soon versus reducing it, but also don't want him to go hypo, and I kill it by having to use karo syrup (and just don't want to go through that in general, obviously)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14zA7fP_WqSiQiWqFmkKn6_Nv9aorZ2F6l-H1tYqUW00/pubhtml
Thoughts? ps I realize I haven't done a curve in awhile - we've been really battling constant hunger/diarrhea for the last month - focus was more on that, probiotics, etc, and less on BG and curves. Probiotics he was on were s.boulardii (yeast, so possible BG raise when I add that back in?) and Visbiome. Stopped those on Friday as well briefly with the intent to restart, just trying to "reset" him so to speak in terms of the digestive pyrotechnics.
I finally made my spreadsheet - I've just included January for now until I can get everything back through August posted.
Diego has been on zero or very low carb food for months now and generally while he has changes in his sugar here and there, he remains mostly steady. Was a little wonky recently, but I suspect the insulin vial needed replaced, and got it refilled. He had a brief lower period in December when I was out of town, but of course in that case, we had to elect to skip some doses versus reducing them (since no one was available overnight to test him).
On Friday (two days ago), I switched him from RadCat raw and some TikiCat, to Stella & Chewy's frozen rabbit morsels in an attempt to help his really bad diarrhea from IBD - he's lost a ton of weight. While I'm well aware of the impact a diet change can have (been through it before and home tested like crazy), if anything, I expected his BG to go up slightly on this new food, since the prior foods generally seemed to have little to no effect on his levels.
He's been low the last 48 hours, and super low today, and that was on a reduced dose of insulin (note I indicated these as 1/2 unit but really I can barely see on the syringes below the 1 unit line, so this is an eyeball guesstimate on the amount). Debating if I should shoot a super low amount tonight depending on where he's at at dose time and test him overnight, or skip it altogether? If this is a possible chance at remission, I don't want to mess it up by removing insulin completely too soon versus reducing it, but also don't want him to go hypo, and I kill it by having to use karo syrup (and just don't want to go through that in general, obviously)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14zA7fP_WqSiQiWqFmkKn6_Nv9aorZ2F6l-H1tYqUW00/pubhtml
Thoughts? ps I realize I haven't done a curve in awhile - we've been really battling constant hunger/diarrhea for the last month - focus was more on that, probiotics, etc, and less on BG and curves. Probiotics he was on were s.boulardii (yeast, so possible BG raise when I add that back in?) and Visbiome. Stopped those on Friday as well briefly with the intent to restart, just trying to "reset" him so to speak in terms of the digestive pyrotechnics.
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