Numbers climbing - what is happening?

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Hi,
Would some of you look look at the numbers I'm posting for Chong (in signature)? Her numbers are climbing and I don't know why, or what to do. Help! She's eating, not as well as before, and seems OK. Not sure I am . . .

Thanks.

Barb & Chong
 
Barb,
What has Chong been eating the past few days as the numbers have been climbing? I saw some notes on the SS on dry food..... has she been free feeding on dry?

Carl
 
Hey, Barb,

I hesitate to take a guess. Could it have been a fur shot? Or, sometimes with Hershey (my sugar kitty) his numbers go up when he gets too much insulin because his pancreas is trying to help out or any number of other things. Also, if he vomits his BG goes up. Or, are you feeding a different food? Some beans report big BG differences if they feed a food with more carbs.

Libby (and Hershey, too!)
 
Hi all,
Chong was switched to FF Classic around 3/15 Hills DM canned. When she hit 97 on St. Pat's Sat and I was leaving the house (gave dry), I started free feeding her canned food. I use dry (about 10 kernals of DM Dry, which is about 1 year old) as a treat if I have to check her during the day.

This morning I switched back to DM Canned and started feeding her 9 am & 9 pm.

So, what do you think? I increased the insulin .25 this morning but wonder if it is rebound.

Barb & Chong
 
Barb,
I don't see numbers that would seem to be causing bounces, but that doesn't mean they aren't there. Take her AM cycle on the 17th for instance. You got a 97 at +5. That wouldn't seem to be low enough to set off a few days of bouncing, but maybe Chong went even lower than that, and maybe did so again that night and that caused the higher number the next morning? There could be some lows there that you just haven't managed to catch with a test.

I think I would drop back to 1 unit, and try if at all possible this weekend to get some tests in the +5 to +7 range to see what the lowest number you get is. If Chong is going into the greens, that could cause her body to react (we call it liver panic) in a way that she dumps glucose into her system because she hasn't seen numbers that low for a while. This happens to most kitties when they drop into a range of numbers that are abnormally low (for them) even though they wouldn't be considered "hypo" numbers. When a cat is used to living in the 200s or 300s, any number in the 100s can feel like "too low" to their system. I'm afraid if you just up the dose, it'll have the opposite effect you're looking for in that it will keep giving you lower numbers that her body isn't quite used to or ready for. Then you'll keep getting these higher numbers at shot time. Sometimes too much insulin looks just like not enough insulin on a spreadsheet, as non-logical as that might sound.

Carl
 
OK I'm doing 1 unit, back to DM canned, am & pm feeding, and keeping my fingers crossed. Would there be any other reason for these numbers to be going up?

Thanks everyone.
 
The dose seemed to be working really well until the last couple of days. Have you by any chance dropped the vial of insulin or shook it? If you look at it, does it look like there are any "floaties" in it? The vial isn't really old, right, so there's no reason for it to just lose its effectiveness....
There's nothing else going on like some sort of infection that might raise the BG?

Anybody else have any ideas?

Carl
 
I know Sneakers started climbing when she got into some dry food from the neighbors.

AND she is very carb conscious- I was fluctuating between 2 and 5% carbs in FF and her numbers were all over the place. She did not settle until I had feed her 3 days straight on the same food. It was enough to show me that her numbers was VERY tied to her carbs- even the small % ones.
 
hmjohnston said:
...AND she is very carb conscious- I was fluctuating between 2 and 5% carbs in FF and her numbers were all over the place. She did not settle until I had feed her 3 days straight on the same food. It was enough to show me that her numbers was VERY tied to her carbs- even the small % ones.
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I've seen this with Grayson as well. I've started keeping up with what type of food, how much and what time, so I could compare apples to apples when something changed. Reduce the number of potential variables when trying to figure out what's making the difference.
 
Just posted again with a 911. Please look. Thanks for your help, I need more!!!! Please look. Her number this morning was 460 and at 6:30 am it was 236, so insulin is working but what else is happening. She was up all last night, ravenous, got into some dm dry food. Didn't eat it all even but I might have busted her in time. She sleeps on my bed so I was awake a lot last night and now slept through her dose. going on a 11:30 am -11:30 pm cycly I guess.

Any ideas?
 
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