? Dottie's numbers 1/21/16

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Jeanne & Dottie

Jeanne & Dottie

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Ok, so what do we have today...tried this:
1/20/16
11:58pm BG 145
Waited from midnight to almost 1:00 pm for her numbers to go up
1/21/16
12:58am BG 149 Numbers hardly budged
Gave shot microdrop, literally 1 drop
4:21am BG 151
Slept
12:43pm BG328
1:00pm Gave shot .5 units ProZinc
5:39pm BG193 So here she's had a drop of 135 points in 4 and a half hours
8:00pm BG 111 So she's had a drop of 82 points in 2 and a half hours.


Sorry guys, the spreadsheet is driving me nuts. Chris is basically sharing it with me because she set it up. But when I go to my folders, the file is not there under Shared Files. I have two accounts, one under my hotmail addy and one under Gmail, and the spreadsheet is in neither. Yesterday it was there.

Obviously I'm doing something wrong but I don't know what. The only way I can access the spreadsheet is by using a link that Chris sent me.
Going to test Dottie again right now and I will add it to this post..so just check back to this post to see the added # in five minutes. It will be for 8:00pm
 
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I think you are doing fine, Jeanne. The 0.5 is looking nice for the 328. She may drop too low for a shot tonight, but she might be shootable with 1/2 drops. At this point, with her pancreas helping out, and her reacting to small doses, I'd consider your job keeping her safe and in nice ranges, as much as possible. And you are doing that very well!
 
Thank you.:bighug:I needed that. I feel like she's got an odd jump downwards at night, probably because she plays. I'm testing again in 20 minutes to make sure she doesn't nosedive into the BG 40's.

I wonder if I should feed a higher carb meal at night, since I know this is how her numbers behave?:confused: Sort of like when atheletes load up before running a race?

Oh, and her special treat after blood pokes? I have been giving her an eeeenie, weeeenie quarter of a piece of Griller's Kibble. Yes, I know that's a high carb dry food. But she is dying to eat it, so much that I'm putting Gizmo's Transitional To Wet Food kibble up on top of the refridgerator.

Dry kibble is like cocaine to Dottie. She craves it desperately, and loved it before she developed diabetes.

Mogs, :bighug:thank you for explaining giving her a microdose if her numbers start to climb out of the normal zone. I took an old syringe last night, labeled it as a practice syringe, and tried doing the mini-micro-miniscule drop suckup. It actually works! The vaccuum created in the syringe sucks up the smallest drop in the world.

Now if I can just keep that drop in the syringe until I get it into her, :nailbiting: The possibility of losing it in a fur shot is real.
 
Jeanne - I just want to tell you that you are doing an awesome job. You have only been dancing this sugar dance with Dottie for only 7-8 days and look how far you have come. Not to mention Dottie is improving each and every day. Great job and an extended pat on the back from Phoenix.
 
Thank you Merlin.

I'm kind of hovering over her now. It's 5 hours till her next dose (1:00 am) and she's already at 111 and I'm worried that she'll go further. She just headed for a snack, so I'll be taking another BG in 20 minutes to see how that affects her. ProZinc lasts about 9 hours before it 'poops out'..so she still has an hour...hour and a half to go before her numbers might start to climb, right?
 
There's nothing wrong with giving her one piece of kibble as a treat. Bob got shrimp, which is zero carb, but I didn't give him shrimp for that reason. I gave him shrimp because it was his favorite food in the entire universe. It was a reward for being poked with a sharp object. If his favorite food in the world was a jelly bean, he would have gotten a jelly bean after each poke. One piece of kibble is not going to send Dottie's BGs through the roof.

The peak effect and duration of Prozinc is going to be different in every cat, and as you can see by your SS, it won't be the same for Dottie every day. Sometimes her nadir has been early, sometimes late. "Typical" is 5-7 hours after a shot. But it's kind of a moving target in many cats.
 
Yes, it seems to be somewhere in the 9 hour range for Dottie. But that might be because of the way she eats. I am free-feeding wet food. When she ate kibble, her idea of nibbling was always to eat 2 to 3 pieces of kibble on a regular basis, much like the cat who will be outside finding a random insect or mouse here and there. Sometimes a bite more, sometimes less, but not always at the same time. But her pattern has changed with the advent of wet food.

My frustration with leaving wet food outside the bowl is that it gets ugly looking...unappetizing to me, very quickly. And I worry about food being too cold. Here in this old house, (over 100 years old) we have drafts all over the place, and they always seem to find the food. So the food, when I touch it, after it being out in a dish for an hour, it feels refrigerated. Too cold for my liking, (not that I'm eating it:woot: )as well as the furkids. What IS mouse-body temperature, anyway?

Anyway, come on Spring. Then the house is nice and warm.
 
Mouse Body Temperature: ~36.9 C (98.4 F)

Google knows EVERYTHING! LOL!
 
One thing you can do to "refresh" food that has been left out is mix in a tsp or two of hot water. Or microwave it for less than 10 seconds (but it is really stinky).
 
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