Slowly falling preshot #s

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MommaOfMuse

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Well looking at the way Ms. Musette is handling her dose reduction I would say she probably needs a little longer than the standard 5 days for a dose to settle. Except for one evening ps which was clearly a bounce, her amps #s are constantly a little better each day. So unless someone has advice otherwise, at this point I'm guess I will just continue to hold at the current dose and wait to see where it leads.

Since today for the first morning in several she is starting out in the yellow rather than the pink. And yesterday she finally put her toe back into the blues.

Mel, Maxwell, Musette & The Fur Gang
 
Besides being cute, she's a little puzzle, isn't she?

The clue for me is what she did on .25U at the end of July. You forgot a shot and she stayed in the 200s. Then she stayed in the 200s for 3 days on .25U. As soon as you increased to .4U, up she went.

This happened again when you were at .2U on 8/7 after her no insulin trial, then increased to .5U on which she went down beautifully, but yoyo'd after hitting 79.

Conclusion - dose increases are too large. If you can use the drop method to get her from .25U to .3U, try increases in that small of an amount. Even that is a 20% increase. Going from .2U to.5U is a whopping 150% increase!

She wants to be a drop by drop kitty. Hope your eyes are up for it :shock:
 
LOL yeah she is cute as a button and sweet too. cat_pet_icon

And I'm beginning to think I should have named her something like Jigsaw, or Enigma rather than Musette... :lol: Actually if I would have known she was going to have as much tortie in her coat a she is getting, I might very well have named her Jigsaw or Puzzle. :roll:

I still have to wrap my brain around the numbers going up is too much insulin instead of not enough, I know on the logical level that it works that way, but it goes against my instincts. Guess I will be putting my brand new contacts and that little syringe magnifier to the test, to try to figure out where .3 is. I have been practicing getting 5 drops consistantly out of .5u. So if I'm applying that logic correctly, then if I draw up .5u and then twist the syringe until I have two drops out of it, that would be .3 right? At least that is kind of the way I understand it, that each drop is .1u. I know I can see the syringe well enough with the little maginfier to get exactly .5, so then releasing 2 drops should get me to .3u, it will be tricky but I have to do what I have to do for her sake. She is just too darn cute and snuggly not to try my level best to do everything I can for her. But damn it, if I'm going to ruin what is left of my eyesight trying to microdose her, she freaking better work just as hard to come off the juice...lol. Oh why couldn't she have been damaged in shipping like Maxwell? <giggle> I'm gonna have to yell at Don for packing her so well.. :lol: Leave it to a tortie to be difficult!

Mel, Maxwell, Musette & The Fur Gang
 
That drop method sounds about right to me.

Instincts get thrown out the window with these insulins. Look for patterns on spreadsheets and take whole cycles in to account. Yes, it's important to get nadirs, but what happens before and after the nadir is also important.
 
She really is getting more and more tortie with each passing day, I figure she should have her fully coat back in just in time for winter. I know it took Maxwell until he shed out his lion-cut for his summer coat before I really got to see what he was going to look like, so I think it will be the same way with Musette, as she sheds out her summer coat her winter coat should come in long and silky. Right now she is suffering from bad hair days, as she has these little tufts of long hair all over her body where she has shed out some of her summer coat and her winter coat is starting to come in...lol.

Mel, Maxwell, Musette & The Fur Gang.
 
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