Musette's BGs driving me nuts

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MommaOfMuse

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Okay since I started her on her new pen of insulin I had her on .25u, and her numbers were very stable but still in the 200s, so I bumped her up to .4u and she has started bouncing all over the place again. So obviously up was the wrong was to go. As she is now hitting pinks. And actually her best numbers where on the day I actually forgot to shoot her. So would it be logical to take her back down to the .25u until she clears these bounces, then go lower on her dose? Or go back up but only to .3

I have to admit right now I'm about ready to take her completely off insulin for a few day while testing her for ketones and see I can't just bring her numbers down with diet alone. That she might be so insulin sensitive that even a tiny bit causes her to dump sugar and thus the numbers. I frankly just don't know she definitely doesn't respond how I think she should. If I raise her dose her numbers go up in corresponding amounts to the amount of the rise.

Mel, Maxwell, Musette & The Fur Gang
 
Maybe take her lower than .25U instead of dropping insulin altogether. I'm always loathe to recommend stopping insulin because that sudden load on the pancreas could impede healing but the rebounding is no good either.

If you're confident you can measure .1U, maybe give only that much. Is she acting any different?
 
After checking spreadsheet, she probably needed only a half a drop more increase rather than from .25 to .4. That was a 60% increase! Sometimes it's more helpful to think of dose changes in terms of percents rather than units, especially at such small doses as what may seem like a small change is actually very large.

Her numbers on .25U were right where they should be in order to work toward a great dose - stable - and an increase should have brought them down further, but the increase surely had to have been too much.
 
Thanks Vicki, I will reduce her back down to .25u tonight, let her clear this latest rebound, and then try going up by just a drop more. If that doesn't work then I'll start working in reverse..and lower it back down further.

As far as how she is acting, well yesterday she was purring if you just looked at her, and was having a wonderful time with her first catnip encounter, I'm not sure she had ever seen catnip until yesterday, it was the first time here for sure, but where the rest of my kids know actually what it is when I pull out the bag, it took Musette a while to figure it out...she had to sniff it, taste it, and then finally got to where she was rolling in it and having a good time.

Mel, Maxwell, Musette & The Fur Gang.
 
Thank you for reminding me about catnip! I forget that it's a good stress reliever for them. I will have to make Gandalf a new ctnip toy.

Glad she enjoyed it. And yours sounds like a good plan. When a dose increase doesn't work it's best to go to the last best dose.
 
I have a kitty-cat garden space that in nice weather the gang gets to go out in...It is planted in all thinks kitty related, it has catnip, valerian, and wild flowers to attact butterflies, as well as a hanging bird feeder just outside the fenced in garden so they can watch the birds but not eat them.

Mel, Maxwell, Musette & The Fur Gang.
 
Thanks Peggy,

Its a work in progress, when we got the place it was one of my Father-in-Law's rentals, which he gave us as a wedding present. The house is tiny just a little one bedroom, but the yard is huge. But it suffers from rental property disease...lol. In other words, when we moved in, no flowers, no real grass unless you count crab-grass, and basically over run with well mowed weeds. Its taken me 4 years to just get the cat's garden in, and growing well. It was originally I think a trash heap for all the broken pieces of pottery, rusty nails and various other junk that I've found while working on it. The first couple years we were here it was the vegetable garden, but we have lon since out grown it for veggies...lol And then Maxwell arrived and he so loved going to the garden with me that I started turning it into a place just for the kitties, since it is fenced with a very fine mesh and the fencing has brackets on the top that tilt in so we extended the fence on to those to discourage the kitties from wanting to climb or jump out of the enclosure.

This year is the first year that I have gotten to work on the one long flower bed on the side of garage, I unfortunately didn't order enough Hollyhocks to do the whole bed, (way longer than I thought it was) but so far what are in look great, when that one is done it will be all Hollyhocks. When they bloom I promise to post pictures. If all goes according to the plans we have, with the tax return check we want to finally fence the entire yard, then I can really get to work on the flower beds, the koi pond, and the gazabo. If I tried that now I would have the neighborhood kids fishing in the Koi Pond, and picking the flowers. But there are at least grand plans for the yard on paper...lol.

Once the back yard is done then it will be time to work on the front, which I really want to put a white picket fence around with a arch over the front walkway, with a gate. So I can safely put up a bird bath and window boxes with out the kids playing in the bird bath and picking the flowers. Since the kids around here are allowed to run amok without adult anywhere in sight. <sigh>

Mel, Maxwell, Musette & The Fur Gang
 
Yeah, it pretty much sucks that a fence is mandatory if you want a decent yard around here. When we first got the place and moved in 5 years ago, it was a much different neighborhood, most folks that had lived here for years, all were home owners, and most were our age (late 40s) or older. When the economy tanked, so did the neighborhood, a lot of people sold their house that either went to young couples with small children, or became rentals.

Apparently child rearing has also changed since my kids were little, when mine were small, they didn't get to leave the house without mom or dad on their heels, now I see the little ones here, running all over the block without a parent anywhere in sight, and frankly, some of them scare me to death. The run across the street without looking. The other day I was out weeding around the front walk, and watch a lttle girl no more than about 5 carrying her baby brother who was little enough to barely be walking, head first down a flight of concrete stairs. Talk about having my heart in my throat until they both were safely on grass.

The folks right next door to us, I can't let our dog out in our yard unless I go with him and stay with him, because I have caught their kids twice throwing rocks at him. Now they have lovely Golden themselves named Anya. When I called the mother to talk about the rocking throwing, all I got was "Oh yeah, Aurora (they oldest), threw a tricycle at Anya the other day, too. Its a good thing we have a forgiving dog." Well glad their dog is forgiving mine isn't, he isn't wired that way. He's loyal and protective, but he is also a mix of Chow & German Shepherd with a touch of Lab, but he is also a former abuse case. Treat him well he's your friend for life, be mean to him and he will take your leg off if given the chance. Those kids are the exact reason we can't just put up a chain link fence to let him havethe run of the yard. At the very least when we fence it its going to have to be a solid privacy fence, so the kids don't reach threw and get bit. and that he can't get his muzzle through it to do the biting. But at least King is an intelligent dog and he hasn't learned to hate all kids, we were getting a bit worried that he would, but when our daughter comes over with her little ones, King turns into a slobbering mess, he and Eathen will play together for hours. Eathen just turned 4 and loves to throw balls for King, he will giggle so hard watching King bounding after the balls to bring it back and lick his face...lol. If we put the baby Socorra down for a nap, King goes and lays right beside her, and the minute she makes a peep, he comes running to get Alisha or us. He will run between the adults and then back to the baby's room. He's such a good boy, I hate that we have a big yard and right now he has to stay chained up on a fairly short chain when he is outside to keep him and the kids next door safe.

Mel, Maxwell, Musette & The Fur Gang
 
Do you have any kind of dog park near enough you could drive him to every couple of days for a run? I also hate to see big dogs chained up, but you are right to do so for his sake and other people's kids.

Although sounds to me like one of them getting bit might teach them a lesson. A tricycle thrown at the dog? How big is this girl?? Sheesh.
 
Your garden sounds lovely, I've always wanted a yard like that, maybe someday.

I feel your pain with the neighbors and your dog. I'd love to throw up a privacy fence around my whole house. I live on a street that is exactly 2 blocks long with a T at both ends, it goes nowhere but every dog walker, jogger, and family out for a stroll in town walks by my house??? day and night. The teenagers throw rocks and sticks at my golden so now she barks at everyone who wanders by, ugg. I have to be out there with her at all times.
 
Oh yes, he goes to the dog park on the weekends to go run with Daddy. Jon is the only one with enough strength to get King into our truck, King was abused by his former owner and refuses to jump up into anything. So Jon has to lift him into the backseat of the truck (we have an extended cab) so they can go for a run. It has taken 2 years and lots of hot dogs to train him to go up and down stairs, but we finally got him where he will join us in the basement to watch TV on his own. As pup it was easy, we would just pick him up and take him down with us, and pick him up again and take him back upstairs. But his former owner use to kick him down the stairs so he was terrified to go up and down them on his own. Now that we have him running stairs we are working on him loading in and out of the truck...out is no problem it is the in that he doesn't like. Once he is in he loves to go for rides.

And to answer the question about how old this child is...she is 6, her sister is 3 and they just had a little boy a few months ago. The 6 year old is just plain mean, she is mean to her baby sister and brother, mean to there dog, mean to her friends, and she will do stuff just to spite you. We've repeatedly told her that she can't play in our yard, or ride her bike through it (we had just laid sod in the front). I watched her from the window check to see if anyone could see her, and then road her bike directly across the fresh laid sod putting ruts in it. Now mind you the sidewalk was 6 inches away from where she rode through, not like that was the only way to get back to her house.

Robin, I feel your pain...your street sounds like ours, it goes nowhere and yet everyone has to wander down our alley. Between the kids and the other dogs that just run loose (yes, there is a leash law but only our dog seems to abide by it) around here...King has learned to bark at everything. There was a week last summer when the neighbors and their dog were gone and my dog was so quiet I forgot he was out a couple times..lol. It was so nice.

Mel, Maxwell, Musettte & The Fur Gang
 
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