Oct 15 - Charlie - bounce from a fur shot?

Sarah Gamm

Member Since 2020
Charlie has been going much lower at night and then bouncing high the next day. At 2 units, we were at least steady in pink and now at 2.25 the last few days he’s been between yellow and black.

is this common for such a small dose increase? or is it due to the possible fur shot on 10/11 at PMPS? Should I be doing anything different after a fur shot?
 
A fur shot does not cause a bounce. It can cause higher numbers because you've depleted the depot. When you think you might have done a fur shot, could you put that in the Units cell of the spreadsheet so it's easy to see? So you'd write 2.25 FS (for fur shot), so we know that's a possibility. And it does look like it because he went straight up after that. However, the depot should be established again after six cycles, so that shouldn't be an issue now cause today is the 7th cycle after the possible fur shot. You can't do anything after a fur shot, but wait it out.

What you are seeing today is a likely a bounce from a long stretch of yellows last night. Charlie has been stuck in pinks and reds so long that he's not used to even yellow any more. The "cure" is more insulin, and getting his body used to even lower numbers. With SLGS, you want him to regularly be seeing numbers between 90 and 149. Which brings up a question, why did you take the dose back to 1.0 units? That made his numbers worse and got him even more used to higher numbers. From the look of your spreadsheet, I suspect you got both the spreadsheet and the bad advice to "reset" to 1.0 units from a particular Facebook group. The format of their spreadsheet (which they took from us and modified), has a problem in it that causes it to blow up on several platforms. It's fine on my laptop, but blows on my iPad.

Anyway, that's in the past. Today is day 6 at this dose, I suspect that on day 8 you can increase back to 2.5 units.
 
why did you take the dose back to 1.0 units?

I got bad advice in the feline diabetes support group on Facebook (not the feline diabetes group). I was basically told that because his +6+7 numbers were higher than his pre-shot numbers he was getting too much insulin which was causing his blood glucose to increase. So I should drop him down to one. Which I now know it was terrible advice :( (My spreadsheet looks a little bit different because I have modified the formatting but it was downloaded street from this group. The one from the other group constantly crashed)

Looks like we are set to increase to 2.5u in a couple days :)
 
Hi Sarah, Sorry about the bad advice and going in the wrong direction for a bit....but the good news is, it's not too late to change course!

Glad to see you've got your SS set up and working now. And I'm glad you're planning that increase too. Happy to see that you're transitioning off teh dry food too...the sooner you get that kibble out of the picture, the better!

Things will start looking up soon :) Nice job with the testing... Hang in there now!
 
Happy to see that you're transitioning off teh dry food too...the sooner you get that kibble out of the picture, the better!

I’m planning to switch him to Dr Elsey’s or Young Again, but he would go on a hunger strike before he eats wet food haha. I keep trying and he simply won’t touch it
 
I’m planning to switch him to Dr Elsey’s or Young Again, but he would go on a hunger strike before he eats wet food haha. I keep trying and he simply won’t touch it

Yeah, I hear ya...it's just so foreign to him after eating kibble.

I was kinda surprised that Luci took to the wet as well as she did. I was just so disgusted when I found out that the kibble I'd been feeding her was most likely the reason she got diabetes in the first place and I threw it all out!

It was Fancy Feast or nothing for her! I didn't know about 'transitioning'...she caved and ate the FF...and that's all she's had since. Almost three years now since we were told the news...
 
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