cocokitten
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Hi gang! Took me a few hours, but I finally got Kitten's SS done! Hooray!
Anyway, you'd think after shooting him over a year and a half that my husband and I would be insulin pro's, you'd guess WRONG! We speak to the vet all the time about what to do when his numbers are high and when they're low. She really doesn't have that great of advice other than staying on a certain unit until for at least a week before increasing. I find WAY MORE excellent advice from this forum. And I really and truly thank everyone for that! But I seriously need help on this one….
We had him on 2.5 units of pro zinc for about a week. Just tonight we went up to 3 units. I checked his nadir 6+ and he was 400. I'm not surprised to see the bounce.
I think the insulin is still good. We first punctured it on 8/26/14-liquid looks fine and expiration is next year.
My husband does the AM/PM shots, while I check the AM/PM nadir. (We work opposite schedules). While I get decent nadir numbers, he gets crazy high and sometimes low pre shot numbers. When he gets a low number, he feeds Kitten, checks his sugar, and then feeds him. I tell him that's wrong and that he has to wait 30 minutes, check, then feed, and shoot if his numbers are going up. Anyhooo, here's my million dollar question….what do we do when Kitten gets a low number and he's on 3 units? Tomorrow morning, my husband checks him around 4:30am. I don't wake up until 10am, but I will wake up to see what number he gets. Now if Kitten gets a number in the low 200's, do we still give the 3 units? Or do we adjust the amount to a lower number? When you see his SS, you see that he hasn't been responding well to 2.5. PLEASE HELP!
Jessica

We had him on 2.5 units of pro zinc for about a week. Just tonight we went up to 3 units. I checked his nadir 6+ and he was 400. I'm not surprised to see the bounce.
I think the insulin is still good. We first punctured it on 8/26/14-liquid looks fine and expiration is next year.
My husband does the AM/PM shots, while I check the AM/PM nadir. (We work opposite schedules). While I get decent nadir numbers, he gets crazy high and sometimes low pre shot numbers. When he gets a low number, he feeds Kitten, checks his sugar, and then feeds him. I tell him that's wrong and that he has to wait 30 minutes, check, then feed, and shoot if his numbers are going up. Anyhooo, here's my million dollar question….what do we do when Kitten gets a low number and he's on 3 units? Tomorrow morning, my husband checks him around 4:30am. I don't wake up until 10am, but I will wake up to see what number he gets. Now if Kitten gets a number in the low 200's, do we still give the 3 units? Or do we adjust the amount to a lower number? When you see his SS, you see that he hasn't been responding well to 2.5. PLEASE HELP!
Jessica