April bg #'s - end of BCP, start of levemir

By April, 'o7, I had reached a peak (or a PIT) of desperation. Scruffy's numbers were getting consistently more horrible. Food spikes were rampant. He had ear infections and herpes attacks repeatedly. I had been trying TID, BCP boosters, reducing doses, increasing doses, etc, - you name it - for months. On top of which, Milkshake had had 12 grand mal seizures in a week totally out of the blue, and I was in quite a state, aside from getting no sleep because I was waking up every half hour to make sure he wasn't having a seizure. The Levemir had been sitting in the refrigerator for 9 months because I was afraid to switch again. (Scruffy'd ended up in the hospital with DKA when I changed from U to BCP.) However, at this point, there didn't seem to be much to lose; it seemed unlikely that he'd do any worse on Levemir than he was doing on BCP. I had a couple of basic things I was hoping for from Levemir: 1) I didn't want to have to use a booster 2) I didn't want him in the 50's or lower on any sort of regular basis. Other than that, I was pretty much open to see what happened. (And HOW I wish I could figure out enough Excel to do one of those lovely charts...) My real goal should have been to find someone/something like LevLand (the ISG) where I could get actual input and information; while I did read everything I could find on using Levemir, I didn't have enough of a grip on the whole process to make it work. And I was still fighting the temptation to try to inflict a sort of "PZI-like" approach to this new stuff that was clearly not correct or effective. While I realized that it wasn't working, I didn't know why or what to do about it. Suffice it to say, from my vantage point of more than a year later, it makes me shudder to think how poorly I did with this wonderful insulin. I regret everything! Including my stubborness about using an R booster. Poor Scruffy.

April, 2007


4/1/07
AM PS (+7.5) 356 fed 1.0u BCP
+3 466 1.0u booster BCP
+4.5 393
PM PS (+5.5) 363 1.0uBCP
+6 fed
+4 433

4/2/07
AM PS (+14) 375 fed 2.5u BCP
+3.5 330
+6.5 314
PM PS (+9.5) 337 2.5u BCP
+10 fed, threw up, ate again
+6 41 fed
+7 55
+8 99

4/3/07
PS (+14) 404 fed 2.0u BCP
+5.5 212
+8 192
PS(+10.5) 206 fed 2.0u BCP
+3.75 380
PS (+6) 403 1.0u BCP

4/4/07
+6 354 fed
AM PS (+9.5) 335 2.0u BCP
+6.5 271
PM PS (+7) fed 2.0u BCP threw up
+4.5 362

4/5/07
PS (+13) 412 fed 2.0u BCP
+4 408
+6 388
PS +10 351 fed 1.0uBCP
PS (+7.5) 343 1.0u BCP

4/6/07
PS (+7.5) 342 fed 1.0u BCP
+4.5 437
PS (+10) 403 1.5u BCP
+1 fed
PS (+ 7) 329 1.5u BCP

4/7/07
PS (+6) 356 fed 1.5u BCP
+3.5 358
+5.5 339
PS (+11) 394 1.5u BCP
+.5 fed
PS (+6.5) 428 2.0u BCP

4/8/07
+4 298
PS (+7) 198 fed 1.0u BCP
+5 388
PS (+7) 439 .5u BCP
PS (+2) 464 fed 1.0u BCP
+3.5 379
+6.5 281

4/9/07 *****
AM PS (+14) 477 fed ?u BCP (forgot to write it down)
PM PS (+9) 385 fed 1.0u LEVEMIR!!!!! First dose
+2 411
+4.5 334
+6 321
+8 287

4/10/07
+12.5 263
AM PS (+13) 274 fed, threw up 1.0u Levemir
+3 395
+6 376
+8.5 413
+9.5 388
PM PS (+11) 412 1.5u
+1.5 427 fed
+3 449
+4 381
+6.5 326

4/11/07
AM PS (+13.5) 325 fed, threw up [EXPERIMENT] .5u R, 1.5u L
+1 229
+2.5 99
+3 55 fed
+3.25 58
+3.5 62
+5 99
+7 55
+7.5 78
+9.5 81
+11 84 fed
PM PS (+12) 120 1.5u
+2.5 286
+4 282
+6 370

4/12/07
AM PS (+11.5) 386 fed 1.5u
+2 443
+5 364
+6.5 325
PM PS (+11) 352 fed 1.5u
+5 390

4/13/07
+12.5 386 fed
AM PS (+13) 2.0u
+2 417
+4 383
+5 350
+9 238
+11.75 153 fed
PM PS (+12.5) 181 1.5u
+4 270
+5.5 352

4/14/07
AM PS (+11) 377 fed 2.0u
+4 390
+10 342
PM PS (+11.5) 2.0u
+4.5 335

4/15/07
AM PS (+13) 318 fed 2.0u
+6 77
+6.5 79
+7 54 fed
+8 57
+8.5 65
+11 68 fed
+12.5 55
+14 88
+15.5 103
+17 115

4/16/07
AM PS (+23) 278 fed 1.5u hairball
+2 480
+6.5 380
PM PS (+11.5) 282 fed 1.5u
+4 397

4/17/07
AM PS (+12) 107 fed 1.0u
+1 142
+2.5 183
+4.5 211
+5 197
+6.5 245
+8.5 349
+11 368 fed
PM PS (+11.5) 1.5u
+4.5 345

4/18/07
AM PS (+13) 375 fed, threw up 1.5u
+5.5 360
+7.5 314
+11 181
PM PS (+12 fed, threw up 1.5u
+6.5 210

4/19/07
+13 176 fed
AM PS (+13.5 1.5u
+3 323
+8 278
PM PS (+9.5 269 fed 1.5u
+5 349

4/20/07
AM PS (+11.5) 349 fed 2.0u
+4.5 353
+6 417
+8 472
+11.5 442 fed
PM PS (+12) 2.0u
+3.5 361
+5 254
+6 201

4/21/07
AM PS (+12.5 115 fed 2.0u
+1.5 158
+2.5 177
+4.5 209
+7 190
+9 154
+11 132 fed, threw up
PM PS (+11.5) 2.0u
+3 173
+4.5 139
+6.5 126

4/22/07
+12 98 fed
+13 90
AM PS (+13.5) 111 2.0u
+2.5 151
+5 134
+7 102
+10.5 106 fed
+12 104
+13 104
+15 92
+16 95

4/23/07
+21.5 138 fed
AM PS (+22.5) 193 2.0u
+2 392
+4 375
+11 217
PM PS (+12) 2.0u fed
+1 186
+2.5 98
+3.5 105
+5.5 70
+6.5 82
+7 75

4/24/07
+10.5 230
+11.5 260 fed
AM PS (+12) 1.5u
+4.5 247
+11 159
+11.75 158 fed
PM PS (+12) 1.5u
+5 62
+5.5 53
+6.5 43 fed
+7.5 64

4/25/07
AM PS (+11.5) 154 fed 1.0u
+1 214
+3.5 130
+5 96
+7 88
+8 113
PM PS (+12) 210 fed 1.0u
+3 405
+5.5 380

4/26/07
AM PS (+12.5) 369 1.5u
+4.5 446
+7.5 438
+9.5 403
PM PS (+11) fed 1.5u
+4.5 358

4/27/07
+12.5 203 fed, threw up
AM PS (+13.5) 234 1.5u
+5.5 79
+6.5 58
+7 49 fed
+7.5 44
+8 68
+8.5 135 fed, threw up
+10.5 176
+13.5 420
PM PS (+14) 1.25u
+1.5 433

4/28/07
AM PS (+7) 378 fed 1.25u
+4 381
+6.5 341
+9.5 247
+12 192 fed
PM PS (+12.) 5 215 1.25u

4/29/07
AM PS (+10.5) 314 fed 1.25u
+7 312
+7.5 314
+10.5 369
+12 352 fed. threw up
PM PS (+12.5) 1.5u
+3.5 375
+5.5 403


4/30/07
AM PS (+12.5) 386 fed 1.5u
+4 388
+6.5 338
PM PS (+11.5) 278 fed, threw up 1.5u
+1.5 237
+4.5 193
+6 149