Re: P - AMPS 344, +10 = 266, dose advice (daily condo near e
Good starting point for today. I can only echo what Sue said - it looks like P came off those icky blacks nicely by this morning. Since the yellow was late in the AM cycle yesterday, it looks like it pushed the bounce to the middle of the PM cycle. A yellow is pretty high to bounce from, but then again, it doesn't look like P had seen a yellow for about a week. Hopefully, you'll see some yellows again mid-cycle, and if so, that should give you some guidance on going forward.
I can't find the quote at the moment, but someone much smarter than me wrote that bouncing can be two different things: 1) a warranted bounce, where kitty went dangerously low into hypo territory, and the kitty's body did it's job in releasing glucose and counter-regulatory hormones to bring the cat back up into safe numbers, and 2) an unwarranted bounce, where kitty's body sees a lower more healthy number that it hasn't seen in a while and unnecessarily freaks out since it is used to high numbers. The unwarranted bounces are, I think, what most of us see pretty regularly. Bouncing is normal and it does get better over time.
I also think that an inverse curve can signal that a dose is too high; however, I think Carl wrote somewhere that you'd normally see a real low number somewhere early in the cycle and kitty bounced from for it to be a "true" inverse curve. For example, an inverse curve might be something like: AMPS = 200, +3 = 30, +6 = 300. That's an extreme example, but I think you get the idea.
How I personally look at bounces is that as long as the number that kitty bounced from is not an unsafe low, bouncing in and of itself is just part of kitty's body learning to adjust to better blood glucose levels.
I hope you're getting some rest today. If you get a chance, can you start a new condo with today's info, with a link to this conversation at the top?
