Cinderelly's Gus Gus
Member Since 2016
I've been using the Relion micro meter since 2/13/16. This evening I tested as soon as I came home from work and got a reading of 163, which is fairly consistent with his usual after work readings. An hour and 20 minutes later, his before injection reading was 456, and recheck a few minutes later was 473. I did a control solution test to check my meter, but I'm not sure if I received the correct control solution for my meter.
(The Relion customer service is closed now- you can only get the solution from them by mail)
I received the solution on 5/7/16 and the control readings were 94 and a second recheck was 96. The directions in the meter instruction book say that the control solutions come in three levels, low, normal and high. The bottle I received says Normal (Level 1) Control Solution, and the ranges on the test strip bottle shows L1 29-54 mg/dL, L2 98-163, L3 264-439 mg/dL. (I just realized these numbers are higher on this bottle of strips than what are listed the bottle of strips I used for the control readings on 5/7, which show L2 as 93-154)
I had originally assumed that the control solution was actually L2, rather than L1 as shown on the bottle, since normal in the instruction book is the middle number and the control readings were in the 90's. Anyway, I was wondering what would cause such a high spike in such a short time, assuming that the meter is correct? He has had diarrhea for the past two days, but this was after I gave him 1/16 of a teaspoon of guar gum as shown on Dr. Lisa Pierson's website for cats with constipation. (I had been giving him pumpkin, but it didn't help him much) I went out today to buy kaolin-pectin for cats and gave that to him with his dinner. He seems ok otherwise. Would an electrolyte imbalance from the diarrhea cause a spike? I will do another test in a few minutes to see where he is at, and I didn't change his dose (Lantus, see spreadsheet) because I don't know what's going on. Hope it's nothing serious; I'll try to find a thermometer to take his temp. He had no food since breakfast, so it was not a food spike.
Has anyone used a control solution with their micro meter, and does the L number on the bottle match the L number and range on the test strip bottle? Thanks!!
(The Relion customer service is closed now- you can only get the solution from them by mail)
I received the solution on 5/7/16 and the control readings were 94 and a second recheck was 96. The directions in the meter instruction book say that the control solutions come in three levels, low, normal and high. The bottle I received says Normal (Level 1) Control Solution, and the ranges on the test strip bottle shows L1 29-54 mg/dL, L2 98-163, L3 264-439 mg/dL. (I just realized these numbers are higher on this bottle of strips than what are listed the bottle of strips I used for the control readings on 5/7, which show L2 as 93-154)
I had originally assumed that the control solution was actually L2, rather than L1 as shown on the bottle, since normal in the instruction book is the middle number and the control readings were in the 90's. Anyway, I was wondering what would cause such a high spike in such a short time, assuming that the meter is correct? He has had diarrhea for the past two days, but this was after I gave him 1/16 of a teaspoon of guar gum as shown on Dr. Lisa Pierson's website for cats with constipation. (I had been giving him pumpkin, but it didn't help him much) I went out today to buy kaolin-pectin for cats and gave that to him with his dinner. He seems ok otherwise. Would an electrolyte imbalance from the diarrhea cause a spike? I will do another test in a few minutes to see where he is at, and I didn't change his dose (Lantus, see spreadsheet) because I don't know what's going on. Hope it's nothing serious; I'll try to find a thermometer to take his temp. He had no food since breakfast, so it was not a food spike.
Has anyone used a control solution with their micro meter, and does the L number on the bottle match the L number and range on the test strip bottle? Thanks!!
