Feeding after nadir can really nip the duration. Think of it like driving a car and coming up to an intersection. If you slam on the breaks 30’ from the intersection, you won’t make it to the stop sign. That’s what usually happens when you feed after nadir...you put the brakes on the duration of the insulin.
How much is 1.5 cans in ounces? If you are feeding 5.5 oz cans, that would be 8.25 oz a cycle. If you fed him a little bit over 2 oz at AMPS and three other times before +6, would he eat it?
I don’t think his numbers are all over the place. Looks like he has NDW right now. What I’m seeing is he just doesn’t have enough insulin. When he bounces from drops or lower numbers, he then clears the bounces with another drop. We call this a dive/bounce cycle.
Sometimes Gracie would do this and I’d test every hour to catch when she started to drop and then feed the food I knew would slow her down and flatten out. I normally fed 6% food but if she started the dive/bounce cycles, I’d test more and if she dropped from one hour to the next early in the cycle, I’d up the carbs to 10-13% depending on how fast she was dropping.
You also might need to feed a food that is more in the 8-10% carbs level, if he will eat something else. If he won’t, then it’s not worth upsetting the apple cart.
Yoyo eats the 3oz cans of fancy feast, only the pate type. This is supposed to be the Low Carb type. I feed him half a can at AMPS/PMPS and then he finishes the can about an hour later @+1. He will not eat the entire can at AMPS/PMPS. I usually have to hand feed him his food. At +4, +5 or +7 he is usually hungrier and will eat the food from the plate with me watching him. Yes, he is spoiled and he waits for me to hold his plate; I'm well trained
.....so a normal day is half a can at AMPS/PMPS, half can @+1, 1/4 can @ +4 or +5 depends on his BG level, and then 1/4 can @ +7. I delay his +4 feeding depending on how low his BG level is @+4. Should I be doing this? I thought by delaying his food at +4 I was lowering his BG level for his +5 reading. I'm trying to get that last 1/4 in at +6 but it doesn't always work out that way,usually he gets it @+7.
I started to try and feed him smaller meals earlier in the cycle, but that doesn't seem to be working for him either.
Does it matter how much I feed him as long as he gets his food before he nadirs out? I think he nadirs out sometime during +5. I'm trying to get him to have lower numbers from +5 through +11. I'm trying not to put the brakes on the duration of the insulin, but I am not doing a good job even though I'm trying. I'm told that I will know how my kitty reacts to food, but I really can't tell. He reacts differently to the insulin and sometimes no matter what I do, I feel I am not in control, but the insulin is in control. Sometimes he drops no matter what time his food is given to him- and that is the confusing part.
Sorry if I am rambling on.....but hopefully you understand what I'm trying to write here.
Also, Yoyo is very picky with what he eats. If it isn't fancy feast, he won't touch it. I have tried Blue, which to me looks and smells the same, but he won't touch it! He won't eat chicken or steak either, he just likes his fancy feast cat food....Yukk!
