3/9 Niko AMPS 443, +4 284

What's important is how the nadirs are trending. They are coming down and he saw below 100 for the first time this week! With that will be some bouncing, which is totally expected. As his body gets used to lower numbers, and the insulin dose gets closer to one that moves him, his overall numbers will come down. In the mean time, you are fighting some glucose toxicity.

Smooth flat yellows probably meant he was spending a lot of time over renal threshold. Is the amount of drinking and peeing he is doing reducing at all?
 
Wendy&Neko said:
What's important is how the nadirs are trending. They are coming down and he saw below 100 for the first time this week! With that will be some bouncing, which is totally expected. As his body gets used to lower numbers, and the insulin dose gets closer to one that moves him, his overall numbers will come down. In the mean time, you are fighting some glucose toxicity.

Smooth flat yellows probably meant he was spending a lot of time over renal threshold. Is the amount of drinking and peeing he is doing reducing at all?
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yes, it seems like when we have a new dose change, he gets a nice blue, then bounces and it almost snaps back to higher numbers until we move him again. Maybe he is just prone to bounces/glucose toxicity? He has a very reactive liver it seems. His bounces also cause his ketones. It’s like a pattern of:
Dose change:
blue nadir in a cycle, ketones decrease
next cycle red PS, yellow nadir, ketones increase

Rinse and repeat lol!

yes the flat yellows pre-insulin he had a lot of ketones too, had a harder time flushing them out. His peeing definitely decreased but he does urinate and eat more frequently during a bounce (this is very temporary since he does come down). Sometimes during a bounce he will urinate 3+ times in two hours. When he is at a low yellow/blue during the majority of the cycle, he urinates maybe once in 12 hours. Food is same.

I know the insulin has been helping because he gained back a whole pound and the fur on his bald spots all grew back from when he had them months ago!
 
Niko's Mom said:
Maybe he is just prone to bounces/glucose toxicity?
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99% of newly diagnosed cats bounce. Try not to worry about it. It helped me to think of bounces being the result of the insulin being able to do it's work and lower Neko's blood sugars lower than they'd been in a while.

Great news on the weight gain and coat looking better. A cat is so much more than their numbers. We are interested in hearing about the 5 P's (purring, playing, preening, peeing, pooing).
 
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