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it's really true..that is where you want to be. where did the idea ever come from that 80 at nadir is not where you wanna be. if you got there every day you would be the envy of all.
you have trace ketones?
one time test?
has thumper ever had dka?
 
I hope you don't get bad news about ketones. I don't know what that is. I bought test strips and I checked, but I think I will find the link someone posted for you about it and do a little light reading. I'll still be lingering though.
 
No she has never had DKA, the trace ketones just showed up today and that is another reason I was totally shocked to see that 92 at +4. I don't get it. I tested her ketones about 3 times today cause I wasn't really sure I was seeing it right. The last time I ran one under tap water & had my hubby & daughter look at it with me. We all agreed it looked like it was more trace than negative.
 
i'm not sure that is an emergency. barely trace. but it is very good that thumper chose tonight to lower herself. are you comfortable with her number now? is she still stable?
 
i think you'd have better gauge on that if you compared it to your 'pee' than to tap water...kwim?
 
She seems to be fine...sleeping on the couch after I drug her out of my daughters bed the last time. My civvie keeps pestering me to go to bed....now he's playing in the dishwasher. :lol: So do you think she would be ok to leave at this point?
 
barbara,,,i really think your in good shape. i think it's been an excellent night for you. a nice drop...purrfect/
and beach...LOL. a civvie is a kitty in the house who is not fighting the dire beasties. :lol:
 
do you really have to go to the vet tomorow. for barely trace ketones on a kitty never in dka?
just don't want to wear you out or stress you for a fairly benign reading.
 
barbara, i read thru the thread and noticed you asked a few times why the sudden green>?
it's normal for a kitty to get better in time. it's desired. the dose was right, the time was right. and things change.
what worked last week may not be appropriate this week..kwim?
 
Ok, I'm out...Petey just gave up & is now knitting a spot on the other couch from Thumper....but he is staring at her. Wow, just got a scare...he got up & ran over to her so I checked again, she's at 91 so I'm def. going to bed! He probably knows it's her keeping me up & he wants me to go to bed cause he sleeps with me. :lol: Thanks so much for staying with me, both of you!
 
I was surprised by that sudden green....just cause she's stayed so high this week. I was really thinking she was needing a higher dose, just my lack of experience I guess! I think I will take her in....would probably make me feel better. Thanks again!
 
you guessed right...you will NOT overdose your kitty. I know you won't.
 
you know...fwiw, she could go 20 or 30 points lower and she would still be ok.... you might not be ;-) but she would.
 
Barbara, it often works that way with the sudden breakthrough. It seems like they can get sort of a glass floor with the higher #s, and it takes a little extra insulin to break down through it - when you get the breakthrough it can be quite sudden and dramatic like that. The trick is to get the breakthroughs w/o overdoing it, and then not overreduce and lose the good #s, while at the same time not overdoing it.

You may find after this that a dose like 0.5 works perfectly, when before it wasn't working. It's all a big mystery, but we see these kinds of patterns a lot. That's one reason we sometimes argue over things :mrgreen: since the results can be so dramatic we tend towards caution a lot of the time. But if you are too cautious sometimes you never see the breakthroughs, so it's kind of a tightrope act. Thankfully Thumper's doses are quite low so there's less of a nailbite_smile factor over actual hypo.

Hope they find 0 ketones at the vets. Ketones be gone!!! :evil:
 
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