Makenzie
New Member
Hi,
First time posting, but have lurked for a while. Piper was officially diagnosed in January this year and started out on 1 unit of Lantus and after wearing a Freestyle Libre, vet instructed to increase to 2 units after 1 week. I didn't feel comfortable with such a fast increase so I pretty much have done my own thing since then after reading advice here and in another support group. Most days I test 4x/day with my AlphaTrak3 and have felt pretty good about her numbers. She has gained back about a pound that she lost without changing diet so I felt that was also a good sign. She takes budesonide (steroid) for IBD with her evening meal and it does seem like her nightly numbers are the most erratic, but overall, not too bad.
That said am a bit stumped about what has been going on for the last 3+ weeks. Wondering if anyone can take a look at her spreadsheet and see if they have any thoughts. Nothing has changed at home or with diet, but to me it seems like all of her numbers have been consistently higher and I'm not sure why. I attempted to slightly raise her dose from 1.75s to 1.75 to see if that would help move things down a little, but then one day she had a steep drop down to 69 (I did confirm this with a second test). After that I moved back down to 1.5, which is keeping her mostly in yellows it seems.
First time posting, but have lurked for a while. Piper was officially diagnosed in January this year and started out on 1 unit of Lantus and after wearing a Freestyle Libre, vet instructed to increase to 2 units after 1 week. I didn't feel comfortable with such a fast increase so I pretty much have done my own thing since then after reading advice here and in another support group. Most days I test 4x/day with my AlphaTrak3 and have felt pretty good about her numbers. She has gained back about a pound that she lost without changing diet so I felt that was also a good sign. She takes budesonide (steroid) for IBD with her evening meal and it does seem like her nightly numbers are the most erratic, but overall, not too bad.
That said am a bit stumped about what has been going on for the last 3+ weeks. Wondering if anyone can take a look at her spreadsheet and see if they have any thoughts. Nothing has changed at home or with diet, but to me it seems like all of her numbers have been consistently higher and I'm not sure why. I attempted to slightly raise her dose from 1.75s to 1.75 to see if that would help move things down a little, but then one day she had a steep drop down to 69 (I did confirm this with a second test). After that I moved back down to 1.5, which is keeping her mostly in yellows it seems.
