Sept 10 Felix AMPS=203, +4=204, +10=235, PMPS=376, +4=468

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Felix surprised me this morning. I mixed a little canned in his dry like I've been doing lately with his breakfast when he's hungry, and he ate just a little to take the edge off his hunger. But I found him a while later licking up a bit of canned that one of the others hadn't finished (she had been delighted to scavenge his leftover dry/canned mix instead).

Then he sat there smacking his mouth with a wrinkled up face like you do when you have a bad taste in your mouth. Or maybe it's more of a texture problem and he feels like he has peanut butter on the roof of his mouth.

Also the lancet went AWOL this morning. I was relieved to find it later lying in a groove of grout between the tiles rather than, say, in my foot. Usually where I misplace them is on the quilt on my bed.:rolleyes:
 
Hi Susan! And welcome to the Lantus and Lev forum. I don't think I have posted on one of your threads yet.

Not a bad start number after that nice green yesterday. And congrats on the reducie! :cat:

BTW, which meter are you using the human or AT2 one?

And so glad you found the missing lancet before it found you. :rolleyes:
 
Thanks for the welcome!

My spreadsheet is the human meter only. Looks like I'll be using the AT2 only when I'm getting a curve for the vet. Hopefully Felix'll give me nice plump blood droplets when those days come around so I can get a curve from both meters the same day.

Felix's bg was about the same at +4 as it was at AMPS. Either I missed his early-cycle dip, or he's not in a curvy mood.
 
Or sometimes cats like to do flat yellow before they dive the following cycle.

Awesome progess that he was even willing to try the wet food! :)

Susan&Felix said:
Also the lancet went AWOL this morning. I was relieved to find it later lying in a groove of grout between the tiles rather than, say, in my foot.
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Are you using a new lancet for each poke? I sure wouldn't want to step on them! :eek:
 
Thanks for the heads-up on a possible dive. Dagnabit, I was thinking how comfortable a low-yellow coast would be.

I use one lancet per test--sometimes that's one poke, sometimes it's two. I have poked more than that with one lancet, but if we're having too much trouble, we take a break and start again later with a new lancet.

I'm finding one ear bleeds much easier than the other. Does that mean the other hasn't "learned to bleed" yet, or is it likely to always be a slower bleeder? I'd like to teach it to bleed and, meanwhile, to give the other ear a break, so I keep trying that one, but one-poke-only tests are usually from the easy bleeder.

I've tried the warm rice-sock trick, but he was very afraid of it. I've also read of the fingernail trick but haven't gotten that to work yet.
 
Some people find one ear works better than the other on their cats. I alternated ears per test, some test one ear one day, the other the next. The rice sock wasn't great for me, so I ended up with warn/almost hot water in a old film canister/pill bottle. It's smaller, less obtrusive, and I didn't wake DH with the microwave beeps in the middle of the night. Soon as I started running the hot water, kitties came running cause it was "treat time".

Who knows for sure if flat yellow means action, but it happens often around here. But cats retain the right to be mysterious and unpredictable. :cat:
 
LOVE these low yellows, which I felt were kind of underrepresented in Felix's spreadsheet.

LOVE you guys for looking into your crystal balls. I know you can't purromise what will come, but it's comforting when I'm a little shocked to know that you aren't.

Hugs and kisses to you from Felixoxoxo.
 
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