@Glennie it's truly super-helpful to hear about your experiences!!! I have had the same issue--I can flick the syringe forever and not get rid of the bubbles...I have to draw it out really slowly so the one giant bubble doesn't form (sorry, that description probably makes no sense...). I always move the plunger up and down a lot before putting the syringe in the pen, in order to make it move smoothly--but I have NOT tried pushing down on it while inserting the needle! (I do turn the pen upside down to be sure the syringe is totally submerged.) That is a great tip,
@Tanya and Ducia ! I'm going to try that next time I give a shot...
Speaking of which...I finally got home and got a non-food-influenced test in, and he's at 134. It is about an hour later than I'd normally do the injection (husband had fed and I didn't want to make the "shoot or no shoot" decision with food-influenced data). This is not normally a number I'd be afraid to shoot. What do you all think???? Go for it with the usual dose, but watch closely tonight? Reduce the dose? Skip and start fresh tomorrow?
I need to get all the test data in his spreadsheet--but the lowest he went today was 63, at about +8. Husband fed him and he was back up at 184 two hours later.
I hate it that this is all happening right before we go out of town for a few days (starting Saturday)--I was hoping to get him staying in the blues/dark greens over the course of the week and be able to give the petsitter confident instructions about the dose--I want to know what would be conservative but not pointless...Oh well. One thing at a time.
