5/25 Lando AMPS: 87,PMPS 90

Bandit's Mom said:
You cold try a reduction to 0.25U from tomorrow. He has been a week on this dose in mostly normal numbers with nadirs in the 50-80 range.
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Okay sounds good! I'll look into doing that soon, I'm struggling right now doing the .5 cause I keep getting air bubbles that are making the consistent dosage hard. I want to practice a bit to make sure I can consistently get .25u consistently before beginning the dose. Sometimes half the section is a big bubble and I go back and forth wasting insulin to make sure it's as consistent as possible o_O the lower doses I've struggled with a bit more. I have the calipers but that doesn't solve my air bubble issue I have sometimes :banghead:
I feel like his nadirs have still been really high and his BG is usually 80-100, but I guess I'm just so used to those 50s-60s I saw for so long.
 
Bandit's Mom said:
You cold try a reduction to 0.25U from tomorrow. He has been a week on this dose in mostly normal numbers with nadirs in the 50-80 range.
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I'm off on Saturday though, so I may run a little curve on him to see what a full cycle is looking like then make the adjustment! It'll give me a couple cycles to practice getting a good .25u too :)
 
Welp MR. LANDO SNUCK INTO THE BATHROOM AND GOT SOME OF TOBIAS'S PRESCRIPTION CRUNCHIES :arghh:o_O:D

Guess we'll see how bad it gets later... Hoping he didn't eat enough to cause a big scene lol.
 
TankNRK said:
I keep getting air bubbles that are making the consistent dosage hard.
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When my DH was in hospital I took advantage and spoke to the nurse about giving Indi his shot, her suggestion was a life saver and we almost never have bubbles now.
To start draw a bit more insulin than his dose and then hold the syringe needle up, give a good flick or two so that all the bubbles are at the tip by the needle.
Now pull the plunger a bit as if drawing more insulin, now you should have one bigger space with air or one big bubble.
Make sure there are no other bubbles just the one big one, if you need to pull down further it kinda joins all the bubbles into one and then slowly shoot out the air until you get a drop or two of insulin and if all goes well…no more bubbles!
Took me a couple of tries, I would practice with water to save the good juice until I really got the hang of it
Hope that helps a bit :bighug:
 
A quote from this post: Reminder: *earning* reductions and starting OTJ trials
reduction *earned* when the cat regularly has its lowest BGs in the normal range of a healthy cat (50 - 80 mg/dL) and stays under 100 mg/dl overall for at least one week and following TR.
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Lando doesn't seem to be regularly nadiring in the 50-80 range and isn't staying under 100 overall, so I'd say he's not quite ready for that reduction in dose. Maybe when you get the dose consistent (yes, that's hard!) it might make a difference. I did the trick that Carole suggested and it mostly worked for me. Bubbles seem to like to join each other when you have that big one at the top.
 
Carole & Indigo said:
When my DH was in hospital I took advantage and spoke to the nurse about giving Indi his shot, her suggestion was a life saver and we almost never have bubbles now.
To start draw a bit more insulin than his dose and then hold the syringe needle up, give a good flick or two so that all the bubbles are at the tip by the needle.
Now pull the plunger a bit as if drawing more insulin, now you should have one bigger space with air or one big bubble.
Make sure there are no other bubbles just the one big one, if you need to pull down further it kinda joins all the bubbles into one and then slowly shoot out the air until you get a drop or two of insulin and if all goes well…no more bubbles!
Took me a couple of tries, I would practice with water to save the good juice until I really got the hang of it
Hope that helps a bit :bighug:
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Thank you!! I've been doing something similar but your method is a tiny bit different then mine, so I'll give it a try! Sometimes with such a small dose it's just been impossible, like half my dose will be a big bubble on the side I can't get out.
 
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