Low BG last two mornings - high dose kitty

Hi again all - and sorry for posting again, but Rocket has me a bit confused and I'd like some of your input.

I don't have a ton of data like a lot of you, but his spreadsheet was very scary and angry looking when we first started testing about a month ago. His insulin dose has been raised by half units since his diagnosis in Feb, and he's now on 4.5U of Prozinc 2x/day. I haven't been able to get many overnight readings, but I've tested him 2 hours before his AM shot for the last three days. Yesterday those numbers were 144, today 156 (PM +10). I work evenings, so his shot times are 11:00/11:00, which means I feed him a half can around 9 am when I get up (in this case at testing time), then again at 11:00. Which makes it hard to figure out his BG, I know. But I'm wondering what those low numbers in the morning could mean. He had dental work done a week ago (cleaning, gum infection cleared up, but no extractions). Is it possible his dose is too high now? That would be fantastic... anyone have experience with something like this?

Edit: his numbers still reach the 400s in the later part of the day (and yesterday, 461 at shot time two hours after the 144). I'm just trying to figure out if this is normal, or some kind of bounce. It doesn't seem normal!

 

If you post this in the Prozinc forum, you're likely to get more responses from experienced Prozinc users. I don't use Prozinc so I can't speak to how it may be affecting him. I'm confused about when your preshot test times are in relation to when you are feeding him. Generally the recommendation is to test, feed then shoot and get some mid cycle numbers to see how low the BG is going. Keep in mind if he has eaten within two hours of the test time the numbers may be impacted by the food. So, are you testing, then feeding and waiting two hours to shoot?

 

Thank you. I’ll post over in the Prozinc forum too. As for testing - I don’t shoot until 11 a.m. because of my work schedule, so the 9 a.m. tests are really a PM +10 test if that makes sense. Then I wait two hours and do his test-feed-shoot at 11:00. Not ideal, but this is a kitty who used to wake us up every morning at 5 a.m. for breakfast... which since I usually don’t go to bed before midnight, didn’t work very well. And I do mid-cycle tests too - I gave him a slightly lower dose this morning, so I’ll be keeping watch/testing today.

 

And... 478 at +2. But he was a bit stressed since I had to try twice to get his blood. Still so very high. I'll try again at +3.

 

462 at +3. Sigh. Think I'll try again in an hour and a half or so.

 

I've added more info in the Prozinc thread, if anyone is interested. Rocket is turning out to be a puzzle. I'd appreciate any help/advice y'all have Thanks, and here's the link to the other post:

http://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/low-bg-last-two-mornings-high-dose-kitty.215981/