Re: Lucie has a foster home!! Yes!! Thank you Rick!!
If doing a curve may not be possible until Lucy gets a bit more used to being tested, you could contact the vet with your urine test results and spot blood checks. I suspect she'd be fine with raising the insulin again based on what you have.
So far, it looks like Lucie's response to the Vetsulin is really good - seems like her numbers don't fluctuate a lot from highest to lowest blood sugar. That may change as she gets closer to normal blood sugar but so far it looks great!
Not sure if I already told you but we had a heck of a time the first two weeks I tried to test Chris. I used a meter then that required more blood than the OneTouch and timed out even faster and Chris would wiggle around... I wasted a TON of strips!
You're doing just right by trying it a few times and not pushing it if you don't get results. Wait and try again later. There's nothing to be gained from either one of you being frustrated. Lucie will learn and you will learn and pretty quickly you'll be a pro at it.
I used to laugh at how hard it was for me at first. In later years, I did side-by-side meter tests, filling three meters at a time from one drop of blood... of course, none of the meters took a lot of blood. But we definitely had come a long way from the beginning.
You can break it up into steps to save test strips. Start with consistently getting a blood drop and don't worry about actually trying to test it. You can add that part in once Lucie learns to hold still for the lancing.
I'm pretty excited to see that her blood sugar's down into the 300s. Shouldn't take much more to get her down into 200s and I think the vet would be willing to spay her at that point.
Way to go Rick! You've made huge progress with this in just a few days.
Natalie
If doing a curve may not be possible until Lucy gets a bit more used to being tested, you could contact the vet with your urine test results and spot blood checks. I suspect she'd be fine with raising the insulin again based on what you have.
So far, it looks like Lucie's response to the Vetsulin is really good - seems like her numbers don't fluctuate a lot from highest to lowest blood sugar. That may change as she gets closer to normal blood sugar but so far it looks great!
Not sure if I already told you but we had a heck of a time the first two weeks I tried to test Chris. I used a meter then that required more blood than the OneTouch and timed out even faster and Chris would wiggle around... I wasted a TON of strips!
You're doing just right by trying it a few times and not pushing it if you don't get results. Wait and try again later. There's nothing to be gained from either one of you being frustrated. Lucie will learn and you will learn and pretty quickly you'll be a pro at it.
I used to laugh at how hard it was for me at first. In later years, I did side-by-side meter tests, filling three meters at a time from one drop of blood... of course, none of the meters took a lot of blood. But we definitely had come a long way from the beginning.
You can break it up into steps to save test strips. Start with consistently getting a blood drop and don't worry about actually trying to test it. You can add that part in once Lucie learns to hold still for the lancing.
I'm pretty excited to see that her blood sugar's down into the 300s. Shouldn't take much more to get her down into 200s and I think the vet would be willing to spay her at that point.
Way to go Rick! You've made huge progress with this in just a few days.
Natalie
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