Sev
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BJM said:You're on Prozinc, so feed first, then shoot (about 15 minutes after feeding)
I have been shooting while he feeds. Vet never said when. I just assumed. Its already done. Dammit.
BJM said:You're on Prozinc, so feed first, then shoot (about 15 minutes after feeding)
MommaOfMuse said:bare minium...is before each shot and then again at right around +6 to try to find the nadir (lowest point).
Mel, Maxwell, Musette & The Fur Gang
MommaOfMuse said:Well I test Musette slightly more than what I suggested but at the very least you will want to test Kitty right before you feed and give insulin in the morning and the evening, also you will want to get at least a +6 (6 hours after insulin) to find his nadir (or the lowest point he is going to go on that dose). Since I'm home all day with Musette I test her before her am shot (AMPS) then +3 (3 hours after shot) which is her onset, then again at her nadir (+6 or 6 hours after) then again at +9 and then again right before I feed her and give her insulin at night. Mostly because in Musette's case she has been a tough cat to regulate and likes to ocassionally with no changes in her diet decide to either plunge way down or go soaring up. She is also a DKA survivor so I have to be extra careful to not let her get too high and start passing ketones.
Mel, Maxwell, Musette & The Fur Gang
Hope + (((Baby)))GA said:You shot 1 unit, right? Okay, food spikes them up, usually, and ProZinc as with other PZI insulin, takes a while to kick in. Remember, you are gathering data on how well 1 unit works. This disease takes a lot of patience to deal with therefore we call it the sugardance. Better a little high one time than too low one time and there wasn't enough info to go on to say raise the dose. Once in, you can't get it back out and you do not add more insulin now either.
Sev said:We'd everybody go?
Hope + (((Baby)))GA said:What time did you shoot? What + is that 381?
BJM said:When we write up our results in a post, we often do it as follow because we're in lots of different time zones, some exactly opposite the US!
AMPS ###
+2 ###
+4 ###
etc.
PMPS ###
Where AMPS = morning pre-shot, PMPS = evening pre-shot, and +2, +4 etc are how many hours after the insulin was given.
BJM said:So if I collected this correctly, you have:
441 PMPS, 1 unit
480 + :30
381 + 3
Nice drop of 100 points in 3 hours; it may or may not continue that strongly. Usually a curve has a parabolic shape which may be wide and flat or narrow and steep, or ideally something in between with a smooth drop and rise.
Hope + (((Baby)))GA said:Being at the vet was a different day, another day, nothing is set in stone with cats and diabetes. Here is the link for setting up a spread sheet
http://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=18207
:lol:Squeaky and KT said:Sev,
KT's spreadsheet is attached to my signature - I have inserted a column for the shot time and another one as a reference of my last pm test. If you so choose, you can just save mine, rename it, remove KT's numbers and go for it. It may already be set up with info that you like to keep.
We never forget that sense of programming regardless of how long ago it was....may have to brush up on today's terminology but the 'logic' is still the same....just a lot easier...
Extra scratches for fuzzybutt....
Sev said:Squeaky and KT said:Sev,
KT's spreadsheet is attached to my signature - I have inserted a column for the shot time and another one as a reference of my last pm test. If you so choose, you can just save mine, rename it, remove KT's numbers and go for it. It may already be set up with info that you like to keep.
We never forget that sense of programming regardless of how long ago it was....may have to brush up on today's terminology but the 'logic' is still the same....just a lot easier...
Extra scratches for fuzzybutt....
Thank you.
:lol:
Yah well the days of Ascii, HEX, Cobalt, RPG and Pascal are long behind me.
BJM said:Sev
Time to start a new post with the date and kitty's name!
Sev said:BJM said:Sev
Time to start a new post with the date and kitty's name!
How come?
bookw0rm said:Sev said:BJM said:Sev
Time to start a new post with the date and kitty's name!
How come?
Because the thread is getting too long to be.managable.
BJM said:We generally do 1 post a day per cat, and call it a "condo" in some forums. Take a look under the PZI forum, which also covers ProZinc. Thats where I typically post about Spitzer.
Other posts in Think Tank and Community, for example, which are not specific to a cat, may be multiple for separate topics.