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Here is Milo's latest data, sorry I haven't put it into a table yet. As you can hopefully see I have got him into a tight range by giving up trying to cut his dose and instead putting it up to 10 IU twice a day. Unfortunately we are away for a week from Saturday so he will be in the care of our cat sitter. She is willing to dose twice a day but isn't able to monitor his BG as I have been doing. So I don't plan to leave him on 10 BID because of the danger of hypo if unmonitored. I haven't worked out the best dose yet but probably around 6 or 7 BID. Its a trade off between getting him better with the tight regime and just keeping him safe until I can resume it.
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That graph covers 4 days, for reference below is a longer period (19 days):

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Nb I haven't updated this second graph with the latest injections, for those please refer to the 4 days chart.
 
Although it's scary for me to think of a dose that large (Bob topped out at 4u), it sure does seem to be working for Milo.

The brown horizontal line - appears to be at 180? Is that a "line in the sand" of sorts you are trying to stay below? Just curious.
edit to add - nevermind, I just figured out it says "target".

Also, when is he eating in relation to the shots? The past few cycles, it appears that there's a slight increase just after the shots. Is that a food spike?
 
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Although it's scary for me to think of a dose that large (Bob topped out at 4u), it sure does seem to be working for Milo.

Also, when is he eating in relation to the shots? The past few cycles, it appears that there's a slight increase just after the shots. Is that a food spike?
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What weight is Bob? Milo is quite a big cat at 6.8kg/15 pounds. So per kg is 10iu still a lot? I'm now over thinking it is too much, though he used to be on 1 unit BID Caninsulin.

Milo is fed around 7:30am and 7:30pm, so just after half way between each vertical line. However he grazes most of the day, some food is often still in their bowl until close to the next feeding time.
 
Bob weighed 12.8 lbs at diagnosis. The vet felt his ideal weight was 14. He'd been at 18 six months earlier.
 
Milo was 5.68kg (12.5 pounds) at diagnosis (during ketosis).

I am now putting up thge latest graph as an attachment but it still seems to be subject to the 600x400 pixel restriction.
 

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I'm currently using a tablet. I can zoom the image so it's larger than my 10 inch screen and the resolution is fine. Even I can see it with my aging eyes and bifocals:-)
 
You can't see the '9' and '8' sitting inside the last two light blue dots though.

This is me reducing his dose prior to being away for a week. Along with delayed shooting it accounts for the slight rise.
 
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