lethargy always late afternoon

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I'm new here and have not yet got everything together for the home testing and was planning on doing this tomorrow. In the meantime I'm wondering how normal or abnormal it is for my cat who is on 2u of Prozinc twice a day to be so lethargic late in the day when he is very alert and active the first half of the day? I know it's hard to tell yet because I can't test his BG right now but I'm wondering if anyone has any tips or hints at this point? Is this a sign of him not being regulated yet? He's been on the Prozinc for about 8 days now.
 
Lillie said:
I'm new here and have not yet got everything together for the home testing and was planning on doing this tomorrow. In the meantime I'm wondering how normal or abnormal it is for my cat who is on 2u of Prozinc twice a day to be so lethargic late in the day when he is very alert and active the first half of the day? I know it's hard to tell yet because I can't test his BG right now but I'm wondering if anyone has any tips or hints at this point? Is this a sign of him not being regulated yet? He's been on the Prozinc for about 8 days now.
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Really can't say. Could be he's low....or high.... Or just lazy in the afternoon. Why can't you test yet?
 
He was started at 1u at the vets. They increased it to 2u on his fourth day but I decreased to 1.5u yesterday as I would have preferred them to have started lower and slower with the insulin. I have not been able to get all the stuff needed for home testing yet. He just came home from the hospital Friday afternoon and I was going to go to the vet tomorrow to have them show me how to test myself. I just now got comfortable with the injections. When he came home from the vets he would not even let me touch his ears at all so I gave him time to relax and calm down from the hospital stay. I'm nervous and anxious about all of this. I will feel better when I'm able to test him myself.
 
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He was started at 1u at the vets. They increased it to 2u on his fourth day but I decreased to 1.5u yesterday as I would have preferred them to have started lower and slower with the insulin. I have not been able to get all the stuff needed for home testing yet. He just came home from the hospital Friday afternoon and I was going to go to the vet tomorrow to have them show me how to test myself. I just now got comfortable with the injections. When he came home from the vets he would not even let me touch his ears at all so I gave him time to relax and calm down from the hospital stay. I'm nervous and anxious about all of this. I will feel better when I'm able to test him myself.
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I totally understand. I put off home testing for six weeks. Once I started I wished I had started from the beginning. Good call going back to 1.5. Moving a whole unit in dose isn't a good idea because the ideal dose could be skipped. I understand how stressful it all is. In a few weeks it will all be much more routine and easy.
 
God, I hope so. I'm having nightmares about jumping up in the middle of the night to find him comatose! I've had that happen to me before and I felt like I was going to have a heart attack driving to the hospital in the middle of the night. No wonder when his vet told me he had diabetes and I said "Poor Leo" He said- "Poor you!" Now I know why he said that. Thanks for the comforting words.
 
In the meantime any time you pet him, fondle the ears a bit to start desensitizing him to having them touched.
 
I've been trying the ear touching lately. I think he's going to need a lot of desensitizing!
 
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