Tina & Sammy
Member Since 2010
Yesterday's Condo
@Jill & Alex (GA) Thank you so much for the visit last night, and thank you for letting me know that I am not CRAZY. When everyone kept telling me that Sammy wasn't having an inverted curve I was really starting to doubt my ability to read and understand the spreadsheet and treat him. But obviously the early reduction to .25u was a good idea.
Yes, I agree that the inverted curve on the evening of 3/30 and the morning of 3/31 could have been influenced by the .5u depot. Last night we did have a bit of an inverted curve but he did have a nadir lower than PS. I didn't see your post before shooting and I did go ahead and give a skinny .25u. I will see how today goes and if I see another inverted curve today, or a LOW, then I will reduce to .1u tonight and see how that goes. I would try to hold that dose for at least 4 cycles to let the depot clear out a bit before I decide to take him of insulin all together.
As I have said all along I don't want to remove him from insulin too soon, but it just seems counter productive to continue to put insulin into him when his pancreas is working on its own. If I continue with the insulin it is just asking for trouble. I would love to be able to start our 14 day OTJ trial by the weekend, but we will just see how it goes the next couple of cycles.
Sammy was eating quite well last night. I decide to split up the varieties of food. I have been giving him four different foods, just a few grams of each at each MM, but last night I decided to split them up two at one MM and the other two at the next. That seemed to help cleanse his palette a bit for the next snack.
Oh, and PS this morning was within 30 minutes of eating. When I put his +9.5 snack out last night there was still a bit of the +6 snack leftover and apparently he ate that one first and still had a bit of the +9.5 snack left. I caught him on video just 15-20 minutes before testing eating just a bit of food. I know he should have a 2 hour window before PS, but at least I have the video to let me know when he ate.
Hope everyone has a fantastic day.
@Jill & Alex (GA) Thank you so much for the visit last night, and thank you for letting me know that I am not CRAZY. When everyone kept telling me that Sammy wasn't having an inverted curve I was really starting to doubt my ability to read and understand the spreadsheet and treat him. But obviously the early reduction to .25u was a good idea.
Yes, I agree that the inverted curve on the evening of 3/30 and the morning of 3/31 could have been influenced by the .5u depot. Last night we did have a bit of an inverted curve but he did have a nadir lower than PS. I didn't see your post before shooting and I did go ahead and give a skinny .25u. I will see how today goes and if I see another inverted curve today, or a LOW, then I will reduce to .1u tonight and see how that goes. I would try to hold that dose for at least 4 cycles to let the depot clear out a bit before I decide to take him of insulin all together.
As I have said all along I don't want to remove him from insulin too soon, but it just seems counter productive to continue to put insulin into him when his pancreas is working on its own. If I continue with the insulin it is just asking for trouble. I would love to be able to start our 14 day OTJ trial by the weekend, but we will just see how it goes the next couple of cycles.
Sammy was eating quite well last night. I decide to split up the varieties of food. I have been giving him four different foods, just a few grams of each at each MM, but last night I decided to split them up two at one MM and the other two at the next. That seemed to help cleanse his palette a bit for the next snack.
Oh, and PS this morning was within 30 minutes of eating. When I put his +9.5 snack out last night there was still a bit of the +6 snack leftover and apparently he ate that one first and still had a bit of the +9.5 snack left. I caught him on video just 15-20 minutes before testing eating just a bit of food. I know he should have a 2 hour window before PS, but at least I have the video to let me know when he ate.
Hope everyone has a fantastic day.
Have a wonderful day!!