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Hi everyone, I am hoping someone can help me out with understanding the notation in the spreadsheets provided by FDMB. My family adopted a senior diabetic cat in December. We've changed his dosage twice and have had the vet do his BG curves, but we would like to do it ourselves at home so we can monitor it more regularly. (I will fill out my signature with our kitty's info soon but it's not really relevant to this question). I am hoping to use some of the awesome tools from this site like the spreadsheets, but I'm a bit confused by them.

On the spreadsheets, I understand the Date, AM/PM Pre Shot, and that the +1, +2, +3 etc are hours/readings after the shot. But I don't understand the BG ranges above those, where it says "BG>500, BG 400-499" etc. What do these ranges mean?

I'm not sure if it's relevant, but we are using the FreeStyle Lite (human meter) which measures in mmol/L. The readings we get are always in the single or double digits, for ex 10-13 mmol/L or 8 mmol/L. So I don't understand where the 3 digit numbers are coming from Thank you for any help!
 
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Hi and welcome and thank you for adopting a senior kitty with diabetes.
Here is a link about the SS
https://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/how-to-use-the-spreadsheet.241653/

The numbers you are seeing that as 500 or 300 etc are US numbers. The mmol/l you are using are the rest of the world numbers.
Because this site is a US based site, the US numbers are used.
Did you down load the world numbers spreadsheet? That will have the mmol numbers on it and when you enter them onto the SS it will automatically transfer over onto another SS that has the US numbers.
To get US numbers from world numbers you multiply x 18.
To get world numbers from US numbers you divide by 18.
I will tag @Bandit's Mom just to check you have the correct SS.

If there is anything else we c@n help you with, please ask. We are happy to answer questions.
 
Hello

We have 2 spreadsheet formats for human meters - a US format (for people in the US and using mg/dl) and the World format for people outside US who use the mmol/l numbering format. I am not sure which one you have chosen. You need the World format which has 2 tabs - World mmol and US mg/dl. You enter data in the World tab and the data in the US tab gets auto-calculated.

If you could share the link to your SS, I could take a look and help you with it :-)
 
Bandit's Mom said:
Hello

We have 2 spreadsheet formats for human meters - a US format (for people in the US and using mg/dl) and the World format for people outside US who use the mmol/l numbering format. I am not sure which one you have chosen. You need the World format which has 2 tabs - World mmol and US mg/dl. You enter data in the World tab and the data in the US tab gets auto-calculated.

If you could share the link to your SS, I could take a look and help you with it :)
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Thank you for your help... I thought the US numbers were on *all* spreadsheets, turns out I just hadn't seen the tables to switch to the non-US document lol. My bad. One more question though, is there a reason why the numbers are colour coded? I saw that in the spreadsheet guide they are referred to as "blood glucose reduction numbers"?
 
LBX said:
Thank you for your help... I thought the US numbers were on *all* spreadsheets, turns out I just hadn't seen the tables to switch to the non-US document lol. My bad. One more question though, is there a reason why the numbers are colour coded? I saw that in the spreadsheet guide they are referred to as "blood glucose reduction numbers"?
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Just to help us see patterns/trends when we look at the spreadsheet. :-)

Lime colours are numbers below the normal range and require immediate intervention.
 
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