Help needed- Watson won’t eat NEW MEMBER

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Rosie Lass said:
@Diane Tyler's Mom
OK, I caved and gave him 1/3 cup of the zero carb kibble and he is eating that. Actually, none of the cats will touch their wet food tonight. It’s a fancy feast, turkey, and giblets. Guess I won’t be buying that again. If he eats most of this kibble, I think I will be comfortable, giving him his insulin even though it’s gonna throw off our timing now
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OK Good , how many units will you give ?
Yeah but youncany you can't shoot at your regular time tomorrow morning which is 9 AM is this correct?
 
Diane Tyler's Mom said:
If no one answers then just do that, you are 2 hours late though right?
Lantus usually doesn't kick in until 2 hours after giving it, so hopefully he will eat something
Jus t be sure to fill in his preshot number and put shot 2 hours late in the same cell or square.
Did you maybe try crushing up some young again on his food?

Now you are going to be off schedule for tomorrow morning, we will have to see how you can back on track because I don't think you can shoot your usual time which is 9 AM correct?
@Rosie Lass
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I used to do 10am and 10pm but I’m trying to get to him a little earlier. sometimes I wasn’t home until 10 but my hours are changing a little so 9 to 9 seems like it might work better because they are usually starved around seven I hate to make them last too long
 
Rosie Lass said:
I used to do 10am and 10pm but I’m trying to get to him a little earlier. sometimes I wasn’t home until 10 but my hours are changing a little so 9 to 9 seems like it might work better because they are usually starved around seven I hate to make them last too long
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Ok we are going to have to ask some members about that because you really can't shoot 2 hours early tomorrow morning at 9 AM .
I'll ask the members
You didn't say how many units are you going to give since he's eating a little still 1 unit
@Rosie Lass
 
Diane Tyler's Mom said:
OK Good , how many units will you give ?
Yeah but youncany you can't shoot at your regular time tomorrow morning which is 9 AM is this correct?
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I’m eyeball it and it’s somewhere between 1.5 and 1.75
The new needles with half marks comes tomorrow so I’ll get a better handle on it. His reading was still 400+
I will do 11:10 tomorrow morning. Maybe I can creep it by 5-10 minutes For a few days if he’s eating better so I can get back to the earlier times and if not 11:10 will have to work. Maybe I could feed him a little earlier than 11:10 But hold off on the insulin. Again, thanks SO MUCH for all of your help today!!
 
Hurry up and shoot before it gets any later
Take a look at this post about getting back on a 12 -12 shot schedule
https://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/getting-back-on-a-12-12-shot-schedule.101059/

Please read it ,it actually will give an example if you shot 2 hours late
@Rosie Lass

You really should withhold food 2 hours prior to testing , because you don't want the BG to be influenced by the food.
So if you plan on making your shooting times at 9 AM and PM
You should stop feeding at 7 AM
I mean if he's hungry then feed him something small ad 6:30 AM and PM

What a freaking day and night you had today.
Let's hope tomorrow will be better ok :bighug::bighug::cat:
 
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Diane Tyler's Mom said:
Hurry up and shoot before it gets any later
Take a look at this post about getting back on a 12 -12 shot schedule
https://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/getting-back-on-a-12-12-shot-schedule.101059/

Please read it ,it actually will give an example if you shot 2 hours late
@Rosie Lass

You really should withhold food 2 hours prior to testing , because you don't want the BG to be influenced by the food.
So if you plan on making your shooting times at 9 AM and PM
You should stop feeding at 7 AM
I mean if he's hungry then feed him something small ad 6:30 AM and PM
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Shot went in at 11:10
 
Rosie Lass said:
Shot went in at 11:10
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I’ll print your note And the one you recommend tomorrow and look them over. I might have to change my times anyway because I am not up at seven in the morning if I have to quit feeding him two hours ahead of time. I normally get up between eight and nine and go to bed at one so maybe the 10 or 11 o’clock would work better for me.
 
Rosie Lass said:
I’ll print your note And the one you recommend tomorrow and look them over. I might have to change my times anyway because I am not up at seven in the morning if I have to quit feeding him two hours ahead of time. I normally get up between eight and nine and go to bed at one so maybe the 10 or 11 o’clock would work better for me.
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Whatever works best for you Rosie, one favor when someone replies back to you can you just tap the like word to the right , just so we know you read it, especially if it's important.
I'm usually up late to ,sometimes until 3 AM
@Rosie Lass
You never told be when I asked you what was Watson eating before you switched to the wet food
@Rosie Lass
 
I see you live in Michigan , I was there once in the month of Dec , Chelsea Mich. Froze my butt off and boy was it snowing .
I was in a drug store and people were there waiting to pick up their prescriptions and heard me talking and asked me if I was from NYC .
I said no I'm from New Jersey, they said I had an accent lol
I said no you have an accent lol.
I'm all Italian and from Joisey :p:p
 
I'm going to get off for awhile , my eyes are bothering me from being on my tablet a lot today typing . I'll probably take/a peek later at your SS and I hope you post on the Lantus Board tomorrow . I'll watch out for you :cat:
 
Diane Tyler's Mom said:
Whatever works best for you Rosie, one favor when someone replies back to you can you just tap the like word to the right , just so we know you read it, especially if it's important.
I'm usually up late to ,sometimes until 3 AM
@Rosie Lass
You never told be when I asked you what was Watson eating before you switched to the wet food
@Rosie Lass
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Watson has been eating the royal Canin glyco balance for a year along with blue Buffalo freedom kibbles
Everyone else ate mostly fancy feast: Primavera, Florentine, Tuscany, Gravy lovers, creamy delights, and the ones with cheese added and flaked trout, and for kibble they also had the blue buffalo freedom, and my older girl ate the Purina One senior advantage indoor. I should also mention that all the cats ate out of each others bowl occasionally so Watson probably got a few bites of the fancy feast stuff too.
 
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The Young Again kibble is low carb. If that's what Watson will eat, you're fine. Take a look at the FF Turkey ingredients. There may be something in there besides turkey that Watson and your other cats don't find appealing. If none of them would eat that flavor, it may be that FF changed the formula. Or, it may be they are all being picky. I would take a look at the food chart we use and see if any of the flavors your crew likes are low enough in carbs to feed everyone.

Also, can you start a new thread? We try to cap threads on Health at 50 posts. You may also want to consider posting on the Lantus board. We encourage people to switch to an insulin specific board once they have most of the basics mastered. The Lantus board is just as busy as help and there are members who are very experienced with using that insulin.
 
Sienne and Gabby (GA) said:
The Young Again kibble is low carb. If that's what Watson will eat, you're fine. Take a look at the FF Turkey ingredients. There may be something in there besides turkey that Watson and your other cats don't find appealing. If none of them would eat that flavor, it may be that FF changed the formula. Or, it may be they are all being picky. I would take a look at the food chart we use and see if any of the flavors your crew likes are low enough in carbs to feed everyone.

Also, can you start a new thread? We try to cap threads on Health at 50 posts. You may also want to consider posting on the Lantus board. We encourage people to switch to an insulin specific board once they have most of the basics mastered. The Lantus board is just as busy as help and there are members who are very experienced with using that insulin.
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Thanks! Is there an actual way to close this thread?
 
Rosie Lass said:
Thanks! Is there an actual way to close this thread?
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You don't close it, if you were to post on the Lantus board today you link this post to today's , You can start posting on the lantus board today
@Rosie Lass
Remember how I told you to do it
Here is the link
https://felinediabetes.com/FDMB/forums/lantus-levemir-biosimilars.9/

To the right you will see post new thread
You can say you were posting on the Feline Health Board before
Introduce yourself and Watson
We have a certain way to post there
In your Title put
Date Watson AMPS BG and any other tests you take after that ,and you can continue with the PMPS BG and any additional numbers you want to add.
To do that look to the right you will see the word Thread Tools ,tap on that then tap in Edit Title and add your other tests
always use @+ , not the time of day Then tap Save.

We like you to post everyday and then link your previous days post to the new one in case members need to go back and read something
To post your previous days post it will be the one all the way up top, above the pic of that cat in the upper left hand corner , so if you post on the lantus board you will copy and paste it to your post for tomorrow. I suck at explaining this too low it's above //feline diabetes.com/FDMB/threads/new member do you see it ? You will copy and paste it to tomorrow's post .
So you will always post your previous days post to your new one
@Rosie Lass
 
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Rosie Lass said:
@Diane Tyler's Mom
I think I posted the Lantus thread correctly but I don’t understand what you were saying about adding posts to my original one??
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@Rosie Lass
Hey Rosie I just did it for you go and look on your post on the lantus board do you see I copied your post from yesterday which was
https://felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/help-needed-watson-wont-eat-new-member.289096/#post-3173120 all the way up top of here.
You just copy and then paste it to your post on the post you did today on the lantus board . Then when you post tomorrow you will copy and paste your post from 4-24 to it . Let me know if you understand it OK :cat:
@Rosie Lass

Your previous days post will always be in the URL all the way up top ignore where it says insert or cancel I'm just trying to show you where your previous days post will be





Like I said
your previous days post it will be the one all the way up top, above the pic of that cat in the upper left hand corner with the word Feline Diabetes and the picture of a bottle of insulin there, let me know if you understand it

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