Can you tell me if this looks like I am charting right.

I am using a spreadsheet as suggested:

01/13/10 06:07:00 PM before meal 304
01/13/10 06:27:00 PM 20 min after 307
01/14/10 06:05:00 AM before eating 351
01/14/10 08:25:00 AM 1.5 after meal 366

I am calling the vet today with these numbers.

 

BGs change relatively slowly so testing within say 20 minutes of feeding/shooting has little effect on BGs. Thus, there is no reason to get into that small time frame. Here we use AMPS to designate AM preshot BG and PMPS to designate PMPS. Also, we yse the + to indicate BG so many hours after the shot. +2 would indicate BG two hours after shot. Using this, you data can more distinctly be presented as follows:

01/13/10 PMPS 304
01/14/10 AMPS 351, + 1 1/2 366 (assuming you gave shot when you fed).

 

He is not on insulin yet..calling the vet today nailbite_smile

 

With not giving insulin, I would preface the date with a statement such as: The + indicates the time in hours after feeding. Cat is not yet on insulin.

 

And rather giving the actual time, think of the clock in 12 hour increments. So, your starting point is AM (if giving insulin it would be AMPS - morning preshot), then when you test throughout the 12 hour cycle, it would be +1, +2, +3 up to +11.

Then you have PM (if giving insulin it would be PMPS - evening preshot).

Take a look at the spreadsheet template and hopefully that will help you understand it better.
You can find the how to set up the spreadsheet in the Tech Forum.

The reason we don't use the actual time of day (ie. 8:00, 10:30, etc) is because everyone is in different time zones and it's too hard to try to figure out what you did when.

Does that make sense?