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Need dosing advise - Upping dose?

I see you had a lower AMPS originally. The procedure for doing a stall when you have a lower than expected preshot number is to
(1) Do not feed any food
(2) wait for thirty minutes
(3) Retest to see if the number is rising on its own without the influence of food.
(4) You can continue to stall without feeding for another thirty minutes or just go ahead and decide about whether you will skip the shot or shoot a reduced dose.

He must have dropped into lower numbers last night with a 116 AMPS. I wonder how low he went?

This is a good reason to wait longer before increasing the dose. He is having lower nadirs on the 2 unit dose than we can actually see on the spreadsheet.
 
Another housekeeping matter (sorry) would you please put both the 116 and the 319 in the AMPS cell for this morning and indicate how many minutes were between those two readings. Let’s say it was 30 minutes… it would be stacked in the cell like this:

116
319 +30
 
Suzanne & Darcy said:
I see you had a lower AMPS originally. The procedure for doing a stall when you have a lower than expected preshot number is to
(1) Do not feed any food
(2) wait for thirty minutes
(3) Retest to see if the number is rising on its own without the influence of food.
(4) You can continue to stall without feeding for another thirty minutes or just go ahead and decide about whether you will skip the shot or shoot a reduced dose.

He must have dropped into lower numbers last night with a 116 AMPS. I wonder how low he went?

This is a good reason to wait longer before increasing the dose. He is having lower nadirs on the 2 unit dose than we can actually see on the spreadsheet.
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You got it. I just wanted to make sure we are still on the right track. He’s eating normally, actually begging for food, so I have been giving to him. He’s not acting how he was when he was first diagnosed with DKA. I’ll be testing in about 10 minutes!

I also wonder how low he went. I was happy with the 116 this morning but knew he needed a shot. He was also begging for food at that point. 😩 it’s so hard to stall with 2 other cats wanting their breakfast too, but I understand the reasoning for it. Just don’t want to get too far off schedule, especially since daylight savings is coming up! I need my husband to shoot while I hold his face and comfort him. If we go any later than our usual schedule, it’ll be just me in the evenings. Husband has class. 😖
 
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