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Kris & Rasmus

Kris & Rasmus

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'morning all!

It feels like I'm finally getting there. Once Rasmus realised me pricking his ears meant a yummy treat would follow, he's been as good as gold. He follows me to our little 'vet station', jumps up, sits down and just lets me get on with the home testing. Funny though, he much prefers me pricking his right ear to his left ear. I'll let me do both, but the paw is more likely to try to gently swipe my hand away if I touch his left ear.

Rasmus now has no issues with me injecting him with insulin, or pricking his ears, not even with the lancet device - once I found the setting that worked (2.5 in our case). There was a lot of trial and error, and tears on my part.

He's now eating less and less of his old food (Felix AGAIL) and more and more of Sainsbury's Delicious (try and stop him, he LOVES it) and, believe it or not, he's also getting to accept Nature's Menu, even if it is ground meat and he previously was very anti. If I serve it as a little luncheon snack on its own, he's quite happy to eat it. Just don't mix it with anything. Odd cat.

I've managed to do sporadic testing and the last few days, I've done more curves as I am trying to figure out his nadir and if his current dose is working. Right now, it appears 1u isn't doing much for him, but 1.25 seems to be doing better. I know I don't have an awful lot of data yet, but from first glance can he nadir at both +4 and +7? Is that common?

So injection and hometesting are both in the bag, just need to make sure he's on the right dose: determine nadir, and adjust dosage if needed.

Can anyone take a look at my SS and let me know their thoughts?

Thanking you in advance, you absolutely awesome people!
 
Kris & Rasmus said:
It feels like I'm finally getting there. Once Rasmus realised me pricking his ears meant a yummy treat would follow, he's been as good as gold. He follows me to our little 'vet station', jumps up, sits down and just lets me get on with the home testing.
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Kris & Rasmus said:
Rasmus now has no issues with me injecting him with insulin, or pricking his ears
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Yay! Fantastic news! Well done, you! It's so lovely to read things like this! :)

You're getting a nice amount of data on your SS. But to my eyes the results look to be a bit of a puzzle at the moment....
If you look right back to the beginning, those first two days (albeit there is minimal data at that point) have characteristics of what we call here a 'bounce'.
On 27/02 there is no preshot, but two hours after the shot the BG is right down to 6 (108). It's 'possible' that was a very steep drop but we can't be sure because we don't know the preshot. However...the PMPS later that day is up to 15.2, and the following morning the AMPS is right up to 23.4, as if it had continued to rise.
('Bouncing' can happen if the blood glucose drops too low or too fast. The body can release stored glucose to raise the blood glucose level, and can also release hormones to cause temporary insulin resistance that can last up to a few days.)

But if that data hadn't been entered on the SS, and all there was was the data that followed, that looks a bit like not enough insulin...

That black number is a bit of surprise.... Was there a change in food? And you mention treats in your comments for the preceding day: What treats were those?

I don't have direct experience of Prozinc. But there are some very knowledgeable folks on the Prozinc forum, I would suggest you post there about your SS and see what the folks there have to say.
http://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/forums/prozinc-pzi.24/
 
Really good to see your update, Kris! Well done you!
As Eliz suggests, better to post on the Prozinc forum really, that's where the insulin experts hang out.
Keep going, you're doing a great job!
 
Hello hello!

Right, so... I think I have an answer for the beginning.
When he was first diagnosed, he was boarded at the vet's to start insulin. He was on 1u when he was there. After a few days, I got to pick him up and we were told to up go with 1.5u instead. As he had not really been eating much at the vet's, his curves were done at 1u. Hmm.

Getting him home (Saturday afternoon) and starting on 1.5u, I noticed that he didn't seem right at all. I didn't have a glucometer and didn't feel good about shooting blind. I called up the vet's several times and were told to continue. On the Friday, I stormed in to the vets because, well, I was tired of being fobbed off on the phone. I could tell my kitty was not well. As all the vets were busy, they were going to call me later. I phoned again, with 30 minutes before shooting time, and said I'm just not injecting him with 1.5u, can I reduce down to 1? Or not inject at all?! They agreed for me to do 1u over the weekend, but to inject 1.5 again on the Monday morning and get him in for a curve immediately afterwards. They told me perhaps I should keep him on 1u for now, but to get a glucometer and do a curve at home as he gets so stressed at the vets.

So I did. I had one rushed over as quick as I could and that was the first reading I had. I think you might be right. Must be a lot of bouncing. But he seems to be settling a bit more now. I've upped the dose to 1.25u and am monitoring him as much as I physically can, whilst trying to give his poor ears a break. I'm also changing his foods in hope that it might make bg come down too. So far, so good.

The black entry - he goes outside. I think he pilfers the village. I haven't given him anything as a treat that isn't pure chicken thighs (plain, baked myself in over) and Thrive, the 100% freeze dried tuna and chicken. He gets nothing carby from us.

I'm going to keep him on 1.25u for another few cycles and see what comes of it. I think it's the 1.5u right in the beginning when his body wasn't used to him that sent him off off to a bad start.
 
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