6/16 Peyton PMPS 176

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Re: 6/16 Peyton AMPS 216

Which brand baby food? It's low carb if Gerber's so perhaps you got a small food bump but most likely a small bounce I would think from the low numbers over the weekend is still influencing his BG. With his iffy appetite I would have fed him too.
 
Re: 6/16 Peyton AMPS 216

I can't think of the brand right off the top of my head but it's chicken (no onions or garlic) and said zero carb. It's hard when they are begging and you are trying to hold them off. I figured that would be pretty safe.
 
Re: 6/16 Peyton AMPS 216

It was safe. I would only worry about food spikes if he were low at insulin time.
 
Re: 6/16 Peyton AMPS 216, +4.5 40...below 50 AGAIN!!!

I just ran in from work to check Peyton BG and it's 40. In the process of lather, rinse, repeat
 
Re: 6/16 Peyton AMPS 216, +4.5 40,+4.75 47

Congrats on the reduction!! He is responding so well. I won't jinx you by saying what I am thinking. You are now a pro at handling low numbers!! It's a good thing you can come home and go back to work. I used to teach and if I were now I don't know what I would do.
 
Re: 6/16 Peyton +4.5 40,+4.75 47,+5 63

Thanks Elise! You were there for us during my first panic with low numbers. He keeps this up and I'll be a low number pro! He's up to 63 now. Should I give him one more round of HC?
 
Re: 6/16 Peyton +4.5 40,+4.75 47,+5 63

Wow! Way to break a bounce!!

If you have to go back to work, I'd leave some HC food down for him so if he comes back down, he can get a snack.

And I think you better go on down to .25 tonight! It may be a little soon to take another reduction, but he's obviously on a mission.....and you can always go back up. As Marje said yesterday, the depot can continue to effect the numbers for up to 6 cycles after a reduction, but since he's responding so well, I think it's worth a try
 
Re: 6/16 Peyton +4.5 40,+4.75 47,+5 63

Whoa! .25! I don't even know if I can measure that but we will certainly try.
If you can't be home and you leave out HC food how much do you leave? Are you leaving out the gravy or actual food? I'm not leaving him but would like to know for future reference.
I work 2 jobs but thankfully my school job is out for the summer. I would be a nervous wreck if I had to leave him all day long like this.
 
Re: 6/16 Peyton +4.5 40,+4.75 47,+5 63

On your question as to how much to leave, you just kind of have to go by your gut feelings...how well he responds to higher carb food, how long it keeps him up, does he have a pattern of diving back down...how long before you can test again?...all kinds of things go into that decision

You know how much you had to feed to get up to come up above 50...so you want to leave down enough so if he drops below again, there's enough to get him back up

The problem (in my house anyway) with leaving just gravy down would be it wouldn't last 2 seconds before it'd all be gone! When I've had to leave China, I'd leave more of the "whole food" instead of just the gravy, but China also seems to "like" to stay in the 40's (which is a headache for me, but she seems to do great)

It's more of that ECID thing...but in the long run, it's much more important that you do whatever you have to do to keep Peyton safe...even if it's to really carb him up. If he goes high, he'll get back on track soon enough, and it's safer than not giving him enough carbs and having him drop too low
 
Re: 6/16 Peyton +4.5 40,+4.75 47,+5 63,+5.5 59,+6 90

That would be my problem too. Peyton loooves the gravy and would woof it down in a second. I would have to do the latter and leave out hc wet food. Then I would have to make sure he was the only one in the room so the others didn't eat it :)

Here is what I did today:
+4.5 40 fed hc gravy
+4.75 47 fed hc gravy
+5 63 no food
+5.5 59 fed hc gravy
+6 90 gave him his regular meal since he was begging
testing again at +7
 
Re: 6/16 Peyton +4.5 40,+4.75 47,+5 63,+5.5 59,+6 90,+7 114

i think i'd try to reduce to 0.25u tonight. it is soon after the last reduction, but some cats do it this way. the fact that he got down to 40 and that you had to give him gravy 3 times sounds convincing enough to me.

i'd try just giving low carb when he's over 50, instead of more gravy. over 50 you just want him to keep surfing as flat and long as possible in the green numbers.

congrats on the new teeny dose! :mrgreen:
 
Re: 6/16 Peyton +4.5 40,+4.75 47,+5 63,+5.5 59,+6 90,+7 114

Yay! Thanks Julie. I wasn't sure about giving it to him after the 59 reading. He got a new comfy bed today for being such a trooper :)
 
Re: 6/16 Peyton +4.5 40,+4.75 47,+5 63,+5.5 59,+6 90,+7 114

Way to go Peyton. He might be telling you he won't need those needle sticks too much longer, anti-jinx.
 
Re: 6/16 Peyton +4.5 40,+4.75 47,+5 63,+5.5 59,+6 90,+7 114

That would be wonderful but not getting my hopes up just yet :)
He has been diabetic before many years ago. But then I wasn't told to test at home etc. I just gave him the same amount twice a day. Things have reeeeally changed. I hate to think what his numbers could have been at that time. I'm so thankful for this group and all of the people who devote their time to help other animals. You all ROCK :YMHUG:
 
When he was about 7 years old he had asthma and was tested with steroid injections when he would have a flare ups. A couple years after that he became diabetic but only for a little over a year. The strange thing was that when he became diabetic he didn't have asthma anymore. One vet told me he probably became diabetic then from the steroid injections. I didn't know about all these groups then not did I know anything about diabetes. I just did what the vet said and had karo syrup on hand in case of an emergency.
My vet I use now said he was more likely to go into remission this time since he had before. I don't know how true any of that is. I find out more and more everyday that we may need to educate some vets :)
 
When he was about 7 years old he had asthma and was treated with steroid injections when he would have a flare ups. A couple years after that he became diabetic but only for a little over a year. The strange thing was that when he became diabetic he didn't have asthma anymore. One vet told me he probably became diabetic then from the steroid injections. I didn't know about all these groups then not did I know anything about diabetes. I just did what the vet said and had karo syrup on hand in case of an emergency.
My vet I use now said he was more likely to go into remission this time since he had before. I don't know how true any of that is. I find out more and more everyday that we may need to educate some vets :)
 
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