Raise my dose?

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I'm wondering if I should raise Frog's insulin, he has been on this dose for awhile, and seems stable. Do I need to get more of a particular set of +time tests for good data?
 
He's coming down daily, Barb, which is the good news. Nice blue last night. He is still above the renal threshold most of the time - we like to see them below 250-280 most of the time so their pancreas has the best opportunity to heal. It's up to you and depends on how hectic your life is. I think you could raise by .25 or so (do you have U100 needles and the conversion chart or would you have to eyeball it?) But I think I would plan to monitor, especially at nadir so you don't get lower numbers and bounces.
 
Yes I have u100 needles, with the 1/2 marks, and the conversion table. I will up the dose tonight, but I'm unsure of what time to target for the nadir, as his looks to me as if it moves a bit sometimes. I will be home all day tomorrow (babysitting) so I can do whichever tests are likely to be the most beneficial info.

ETA: .25 up would make a very odd conversion number, I will go .20 up and make it just 3 u100 units for consistency, would that be ok?
 
That would be fine, Barb. I am just thinking a full .5 increase might be more than he needs, so something between 1 and 1.5 His nadir does seem to move between day and night. Might be the difference in activity/food level?
 
Actually, the last several days he has been sleeping a lot.... I suppose they could be getting wild after I sleep, but I only slept 3 hours last night, so it's a pretty small window.

Little Boy (the half feral one that won't let me lock him completely in the house - If I refuse to let him out when he wants, he will go room to room and spray everything in sight until I let him go out..... grr, smart lil bugger) brought us a bug and most of my cats have been coughing/sneezing a bit, and a couple runny eyes. This is my assumption on the source of the sleepiness, as it hasn't been only Frog. Unfortunately I simply cannot afford to take them all to the vet, just doing what I can to make sure they get enough water and such, rubbing/thumping their chests as needed. I suppose I could stop letting little boy IN.... but that would be torment for me, because he goes room to room wherever I am and sits on the window when he wants in, not sure I could just turn him away. /sigh We were all happier (even little boy probably) when he lived only outside, but when I took him to a vet a few years ago for injuries (his whole side was split wide open, about 5 inches long,, and half of one of his eyes was torn open... foolish vet tech... KNOWING he was feral, decided to try to clean the wound without muzzling him and got bitten... they told me if I couldn't keep him inside for 10 days, they would have to put him to sleep THAT DAY :( So, now he lives IN and OUT :/

ugh, rambling, sorry.

Todays am+6 is 303, so different from the dawn phenomenon.. Does it ever work the opposite for some cats? Frog still gets his food roughly every four hours, even at night so that is not it :(
 
Sick can result in higher flatter cycles, or not..... :mrgreen: you know Barb, there are no rules and if there were, Frog would be making them up.
 
LOL ..... LOL

You are so right.

Should I still raise the dose even with the illness, or wait and see? I should point out that Frog has not actually been coughing or sneezing, but there isn't really a way for all the others to have it and not him, symptoms or not I would think (unless the sleepiness is a symptom). (that's how colds work with us people..... once one in the house has it, everyone gets it eventually one way or the other)
 
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