Last updated: Mon, 17 May 2010 07:23:52
It is now Sun, 19 Sep 2010 06:12:27
Last updated: Mon, 17 May 2010 07:23:52
It is now Sun, 19 Sep 2010 06:12:27
[cku10051415op-b521c5.jpg] Kumbi BG curves, 14-15 May 2010
These records come from my notebooks. I feed at 6:20 a.m. and p.m., and give insulin at 7 a.m. and p.m.
I keep these records in a spiral notebook, number the pages, and date the pages at the top.
Kumbi used to drop a lot more than 3.4 mmol/L (61 mg/dL) on walks. He'd easily drop 5.5 mmol/L (99 mg/dL) on a walk with Kwali at his side. Simply, the two dogs egged each other on, and Kumbi was burning up more glucose that way.
It's not possible to know ahead exactly WHEN Kumbi's low of the day, nadir, will occur. By taking extra measurements on 14 May, I caught what was LIKELY the nadir, though he could have gone lower before that. Any events that engage Kumbi's heavy activity can lower his glucose levels.
Kumbi went off antibiotics the morning of 12 May 2010, and two days later, his glucose levels made surprising drops, mid-afternoon. That is, I was surprised.
I resisted the temptation to give Kumbi corn syrup; he hadn't shown any clinical signs of hypoglycemia (glucose levels that go too low), and I didn't want to set him off into hyperglycemia (glucose levels that go too high) if I could help it!
I did give Kumbi a few kibbles on 14 May - first, three, then one more, later.
And, of course, his BGs soared in the evening!
The plot for 14 May is missing one reading I took. The chart was just too crowded; that was at 15:15 (3:15 p.m.), when the reading was the same as the one I'd taken fifteen minutes earler; namely, 4.6 mmol/L, which is 83 mg/dL
When Kumbi's glucose turned upward, I breathed a large sigh of relief.
And that evening, 14 May, I cut his insulin dose to 7 units, from the 7.25 I'd been giving for the last little while.
That is a SMALL cut; maybe not large enough to be very effective, but of course, I'm watching and monitoring Kumbi's levels.
Updates will follow. Naturally!
