4/2 Taz, AMPS-203, +2-154, +3-114, +4-98, +4.5-117, PMPS-174, +4-107

SaraMV

SaraMV

Member Since 2022
We've got a green again. That's twice in the last 2 days. :D I know that he bounced yesterday, but since he's dropping again, is he still in the bounce?

Bouncing still confuses me, but I'll try to explain in a way that makes sense. I know that a low number will send them skyrocketing upward, but is it like a trampoline where it goes high, drops low, and tapers off between the two with each jump until the bouncing stops (up, down, up, down, but less range in between)? Or is it like a slingshot, where it shoots it up and once it comes back down, the bounce is over? I keep hearing that it can take 6 cycles to clear. Does that mean I can expect him to stay high up to 6 cycles, or that he can be tetter tottering between high and low for up to 6 cycles?

Anyway, we're handling it a bit better today. Kinda wanna see what his cycle is doing without intervention. Although we were supposed to leave to go to the movies about 20 minutes ago. :rolleyes:

https://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/4-1-taz-amps-178-4-132-8-135-pmps-206-1-5-256.261449/
 
The second posts in this thread has a good description of bouncing.

The time in takes for a cat to clear a bounce depends on the cat. It can take UP to six cycles, but over time that length of time reduces, as does the height of the bounce. Looks like Taz bounced both cycles on the 1st, then got back to business again today. So it was a two cycle bounce. Numbers can wobble around during a bounce.
 
Wendy&Neko said:
The second posts in this thread has a good description of bouncing.

The time in takes for a cat to clear a bounce depends on the cat. It can take UP to six cycles, but over time that length of time reduces, as does the height of the bounce. Looks like Taz bounced both cycles on the 1st, then got back to business again today. So it was a two cycle bounce. Numbers can wobble around during a bounce.
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Thank you. I've read that post several times and still I wasn't quite understanding how it works while in a bounce. The bounce would basically look like a check mark, right? Where they are normally say around 150, then drop to 90 (bottom of check mark) and then jump up to around 250 (for up to 3 days). I wasn't sure if it was like a check mark, or like an uneven W... where they are normally around 150, drop to 90, shoot up to 250, drop back to 100, and then even back out around 150 over up to 3 days.

Does it looks like Taz was in a bounce during his am cycle on the 1st because he was yellow at his pmps?
 
"wobble around" doesn't look like a check mark. It's not predictable the shape. It means literally numbers wander all over, typically you get cycles with higher numbers than normal, and often not a typical Lantus curve at all. Could be flattish or an inverted curve for bounce cycles too. In your example above, the 150 to 90, the 90 is possibly the event than caused the bounce, which follows. Note, it's ECID every cat is different. My girl sometimes waited a cycle or two to show her bounce, and the start of the third cycle after the low was often the highest part of the bounce.

For Taz, I see greens the PM of 3/31, then a bunch of higher numbers following. That part is the bounce. Today when he got down to green again, that was him breaking the bounce.
 
That makes sense. I wasn't sure if Taz seeing green again today was part of the bouncing. Or if I can expect him to bounce again because of it.
 
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