Jan Radar (GA)
Member Since 2015
Hello everyone,
I started the process of switching Radar's diet from Hills w/d to FF and had planned to do it slowly. However, Radar has other ideas. In the last few days he has started not really being very interested in the kibble. He used to eat about 1/2 cup in the night and now he's eating less than 1/4 cup. When he eats it at all he will eat about 10 bites and stop instead of what he used to do which was eat most of it. Because he's hungry and I know it's important for him to get his calories, I've been giving him more FF. This has probably caused him to be even less interested in the kibble.
When you look at his chart, you will see that his numbers are dropping more every day at his low point in the cycle. After a scary drop on Sunday night at +3 to 58, I decided to only give him 6 units of insulin yesterday morning. But at +3 yesterday morning he was pretty low so I had to feed and give honey to coax that number up. Then last night the same type thing happened at +3 but the number was even lower at 50. Thank goodness I have my hypo kit well stocked. Today the same thing has happened.
even though I tried to stop it with a feeding at +2. I'm scared because his numbers are lower and lower... although his symptoms are only mild so I guess that's good.
In the midst of all this, I've also been forced to switch vets... nothing is ever simple is it? Yesterday I met with her and was satisfied that she was a good fit as she is familiar with this website and agrees that low carb wet food is an important way to help Radar.
As I read Nikki's experiences with Melty recently, I am wondering a few things for Radar:
1. I think the dose is too high still. The vet said all the recent green readings are a concern but she wanted me to stick with the 6 units so Radar can adjust and curve again in 10 days. I called to talk with her this morning after our really low reading and have still not heard back from her and it's been several hours
I think 10 days is too long to wait to change the dose. I want to change it today. Any thoughts?? Am I on the right track?
2. I see that Melty is being well supported with food well before the low point in his cycle. I've only been giving a snack an hour before what looks to me like his nadir at +3. Maybe I need to give Radar more high carb FF to support him earlier and stop or at least slow down that scary plummet. ?? Any thoughts??
3. Since Radar is much more interested in wet food these days, I was thinking about feeding him the higher carb wet foods for his preshot meals instead of the lower carb food. I still have the Hills w/d available to him but he's just not eating very much of it.
I would like to stop this current pattern as it's gotta be hard on his system. Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
I started the process of switching Radar's diet from Hills w/d to FF and had planned to do it slowly. However, Radar has other ideas. In the last few days he has started not really being very interested in the kibble. He used to eat about 1/2 cup in the night and now he's eating less than 1/4 cup. When he eats it at all he will eat about 10 bites and stop instead of what he used to do which was eat most of it. Because he's hungry and I know it's important for him to get his calories, I've been giving him more FF. This has probably caused him to be even less interested in the kibble.
When you look at his chart, you will see that his numbers are dropping more every day at his low point in the cycle. After a scary drop on Sunday night at +3 to 58, I decided to only give him 6 units of insulin yesterday morning. But at +3 yesterday morning he was pretty low so I had to feed and give honey to coax that number up. Then last night the same type thing happened at +3 but the number was even lower at 50. Thank goodness I have my hypo kit well stocked. Today the same thing has happened.
even though I tried to stop it with a feeding at +2. I'm scared because his numbers are lower and lower... although his symptoms are only mild so I guess that's good.In the midst of all this, I've also been forced to switch vets... nothing is ever simple is it? Yesterday I met with her and was satisfied that she was a good fit as she is familiar with this website and agrees that low carb wet food is an important way to help Radar.
As I read Nikki's experiences with Melty recently, I am wondering a few things for Radar:
1. I think the dose is too high still. The vet said all the recent green readings are a concern but she wanted me to stick with the 6 units so Radar can adjust and curve again in 10 days. I called to talk with her this morning after our really low reading and have still not heard back from her and it's been several hours
I think 10 days is too long to wait to change the dose. I want to change it today. Any thoughts?? Am I on the right track?
2. I see that Melty is being well supported with food well before the low point in his cycle. I've only been giving a snack an hour before what looks to me like his nadir at +3. Maybe I need to give Radar more high carb FF to support him earlier and stop or at least slow down that scary plummet. ?? Any thoughts??
3. Since Radar is much more interested in wet food these days, I was thinking about feeding him the higher carb wet foods for his preshot meals instead of the lower carb food. I still have the Hills w/d available to him but he's just not eating very much of it.
I would like to stop this current pattern as it's gotta be hard on his system. Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

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