akbahsMum
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Another hypo episode with Ak this morning, ... I guess it is still called "hypo" when he seems perfectly normal, but his glucose gets down to 37.8.
Happened last night, and again this morning. I've been calmly administering honey and gravy from a high carb wet food, I also gave him 9 crunchies (bits of "kibble").
- He has been on 3 units of a Humulin variant (Protaphane) since end November 2011, most of which time he has not been home tested.
- I recently joined FDMB, and started home testing in a systematic way
- Main change is that I started them both on wet food, "whiskas loafstyle" which maybe is low carb, going by reports gratefully received from other Australian sugarcat mothers. Began that yesterday, 19/1. Decided to do a spot check for blood glucose yesterday evening, and found first hypo of my knowledge. Looking at the blood glucose curve I did the day before however, there's a fair change there. But not much data to go on really.
I gave 0.25 less insulin this morning, bringing me to about 2.75units , but I am loathe to make any big changes without seeing a vet.
Questions in my mind are:
1. I wonder if this is new? (given that Akbah appears "fine", maybe this has been going on for ages and I wasn't testing) .
2. Or maybe its because he's on low carb wet food and "it works"?
Our vet is on holidays till 30 Jan. I would prefer to stay with him, because he knows us and we know him. But I *really* want to change to a slower acting insulin.
I could go down another 0.25 tonight (down to 2.5 units) but I think that will probably still be too high. And then there is still the problem of the insulin "wearing off" before the 12 hours is up. But I also know that you can't make sudden changes too frequently.
I could go to the bigger 24 hour vets down the road, and ask for advice, especially, Lantus.
Or I could wait for my vet, 10 more days.
I thinks its time to go to the vet down the road, isn't it.
So sorry about all these long posts. I don't have anyone to ask but this forum at the moment and I'm a bit confused.
Nat
Happened last night, and again this morning. I've been calmly administering honey and gravy from a high carb wet food, I also gave him 9 crunchies (bits of "kibble").
- He has been on 3 units of a Humulin variant (Protaphane) since end November 2011, most of which time he has not been home tested.
- I recently joined FDMB, and started home testing in a systematic way
- Main change is that I started them both on wet food, "whiskas loafstyle" which maybe is low carb, going by reports gratefully received from other Australian sugarcat mothers. Began that yesterday, 19/1. Decided to do a spot check for blood glucose yesterday evening, and found first hypo of my knowledge. Looking at the blood glucose curve I did the day before however, there's a fair change there. But not much data to go on really.
I gave 0.25 less insulin this morning, bringing me to about 2.75units , but I am loathe to make any big changes without seeing a vet.
Questions in my mind are:
1. I wonder if this is new? (given that Akbah appears "fine", maybe this has been going on for ages and I wasn't testing) .
2. Or maybe its because he's on low carb wet food and "it works"?
Our vet is on holidays till 30 Jan. I would prefer to stay with him, because he knows us and we know him. But I *really* want to change to a slower acting insulin.
I could go down another 0.25 tonight (down to 2.5 units) but I think that will probably still be too high. And then there is still the problem of the insulin "wearing off" before the 12 hours is up. But I also know that you can't make sudden changes too frequently.
I could go to the bigger 24 hour vets down the road, and ask for advice, especially, Lantus.
Or I could wait for my vet, 10 more days.
I thinks its time to go to the vet down the road, isn't it.
So sorry about all these long posts. I don't have anyone to ask but this forum at the moment and I'm a bit confused.
Nat
