MommaOfMuse
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Hi Ruta and you too Precious Cupcake
Since we are on different sides of the world and your days are ending as mine is beginning I thought I would keep an eye on Cupcake's spreadsheet.
That said I want to explain why you are seeing red last night and this a.m.
This is what we call a bounce, it happened because he went down to green so fast yesterday. His liver panicked and sent out all kinds of stored sugars to try to save itself. Now you and I know a 79 isn't dangerous but his body didn't so not only did it slam on the brakes it threw it in reverse.
Remember right now it thinks 300s are normal so even low 200s sets of all kinds of warning bells. This is where insulin being a hormone rather than a drug comes into play. See with a drug like a pain killer its not native to the body so the body hasn't any checks and balances built into it, so nothing stops it from doing its job. The greater the pain the stronger the pain killer you use.
Now insulin is a hormone it is native to the body, we all produce it via the pancreas just in a diabetic something has gone wrong and either the pancreas has stopped working altogether or at a much reduced level. However, because insulin is suppose to be in the body, the body has a built in monitoring system to tell it when it is getting too much and a way to not let that happen. Again in a diabetic that monitoring system is not working right because it has now reset to read high BDs as normal.
So when we slam it into normal numbers it fights back to protect itself, and shoots the BGs back up. A bounce takes about 72 hours to clear and all those protective hormones and stored sugars to leave the system. So the clock doesn't start ticking on how long you have held a dose until AFTER those three days that the bounce is clearing.
Now there are two schools of thought on how to handle that kind of backlash from the body itself. Either you maintain the dose and let the cat dive and bounce until the body's monitoring system resets to normal numbers again. Which according to human diabetics makes you feel like ****.
Or you back down the dose and let the body stop swinging wildly and the curve becomes fairly flat then slowly up the dose so that the overall curve lowers. With this method you will see higher numbers in the beginning because you are first resetting their body to 200s then 100s then double digits. This is the method I use with my own cats as I find they seem to just plain feel better and are happier kitties.
Especially Autumn, because when I first adopted her she was at risk of going into DKA. So I had to slam her down to save her life. But she was a rare case as her previous owner chose not to treat her at all for almost a year. She was one sick little girl but with that diving and bouncing she was so mean to everyone I would break down in tears and almost rehomed her again. Once she was out of danger and I could slow down on the dosing and bring her down slow and steady she became a joy. And I'm so glad every night when she snuggles under the covers with me that I didn't give up on her.
Mel, Maxwell, Autumn and The Fur Gang
Since we are on different sides of the world and your days are ending as mine is beginning I thought I would keep an eye on Cupcake's spreadsheet.
That said I want to explain why you are seeing red last night and this a.m.
This is what we call a bounce, it happened because he went down to green so fast yesterday. His liver panicked and sent out all kinds of stored sugars to try to save itself. Now you and I know a 79 isn't dangerous but his body didn't so not only did it slam on the brakes it threw it in reverse.
Remember right now it thinks 300s are normal so even low 200s sets of all kinds of warning bells. This is where insulin being a hormone rather than a drug comes into play. See with a drug like a pain killer its not native to the body so the body hasn't any checks and balances built into it, so nothing stops it from doing its job. The greater the pain the stronger the pain killer you use.
Now insulin is a hormone it is native to the body, we all produce it via the pancreas just in a diabetic something has gone wrong and either the pancreas has stopped working altogether or at a much reduced level. However, because insulin is suppose to be in the body, the body has a built in monitoring system to tell it when it is getting too much and a way to not let that happen. Again in a diabetic that monitoring system is not working right because it has now reset to read high BDs as normal.
So when we slam it into normal numbers it fights back to protect itself, and shoots the BGs back up. A bounce takes about 72 hours to clear and all those protective hormones and stored sugars to leave the system. So the clock doesn't start ticking on how long you have held a dose until AFTER those three days that the bounce is clearing.
Now there are two schools of thought on how to handle that kind of backlash from the body itself. Either you maintain the dose and let the cat dive and bounce until the body's monitoring system resets to normal numbers again. Which according to human diabetics makes you feel like ****.
Or you back down the dose and let the body stop swinging wildly and the curve becomes fairly flat then slowly up the dose so that the overall curve lowers. With this method you will see higher numbers in the beginning because you are first resetting their body to 200s then 100s then double digits. This is the method I use with my own cats as I find they seem to just plain feel better and are happier kitties.
Especially Autumn, because when I first adopted her she was at risk of going into DKA. So I had to slam her down to save her life. But she was a rare case as her previous owner chose not to treat her at all for almost a year. She was one sick little girl but with that diving and bouncing she was so mean to everyone I would break down in tears and almost rehomed her again. Once she was out of danger and I could slow down on the dosing and bring her down slow and steady she became a joy. And I'm so glad every night when she snuggles under the covers with me that I didn't give up on her.
Mel, Maxwell, Autumn and The Fur Gang
You feel much more better. Once more - thank you, Dear!
How low can he be at the time of his safe 3,5U shot at the moment?
He's a British Shorthair after all