Angel's mommie
Member Since 2017
Advice needed on what dose of lantus to ask the vet tech to give Angel while we're out of town from 25th evening to Jan 4 (10 days). Apologies for long post.
As you'll see in Angel's SS, he was doing very well on .5 to 1 unit of lantus for a long time and eating only LC wet food, but then a month or two ago his IBD began playing up and he once again began losing weight, getting bloody stools and diarrhea, refusing to eat anything but a little dry food etc. The vet put him on the steroid budenoside (which is better for diabetic cats), but he did not do well on it (4 weeks) and continued losing weight, bloody stools etc, so we switched him to prednisolone 10 days ago + metronidazole (flagyl) + vit B shots (+ probiotics for past 3 days), which worked magic and his diarrhea disappeared almost immediately. He's been doing really well since then: eating well, has put on weight, is happy and playful etc, with the single issue that he is being very picky and refuses all wet food and will eat only dry. For now, I'm not pushing the wet food as he really, really needs to put on weight. I will begin to work on getting him back to wet food once I return from our trip and he's at least 8.5-9 lb.
As you'll see in the SS, the combination of prednisolone and dry food is causing his BG levels to go crazily high, in the 300s mostly. I know I have not been following the protocol of waiting 3 waits before increases strictly etc, because I'm a bit short on time with our leaving on the 25th; please, am only looking for advice here, not being told what I did wrong, lol. I wondered if something was wrong with the insulin, so got a new one yesterday and used it at the PM, but the results were still in the 300s when I did a curve at night.
We will be having a vet tech coming twice a day to give him the pred (1/2 tab every alternate day) and insulin. Since he is only eating dry food, it's going to have to be mainly dry food left out. My question is: please, what dose of insulin do you think she should give him while we're gone? She cannot come in more often to do curves; as of now, I was not going to ask her to test him. We have 3 elderly cats and its been very expensive with all their vet stuff, so it's already expensive having her come twice a day without testing.
I'm guessing 3 or 3.5 units of insulin to be safe? Should I be going higher?
[Note: I mostly use the human meter, but occasionally the Alphatrak if the drop of blood is smaller. In the SS it says "AT" when I used Alphatrak.]
Thank you all so very much. Here's wishing all your sugar babies and you the most beautiful holiday season, Merry Christmas, and a lovely new year!
As you'll see in Angel's SS, he was doing very well on .5 to 1 unit of lantus for a long time and eating only LC wet food, but then a month or two ago his IBD began playing up and he once again began losing weight, getting bloody stools and diarrhea, refusing to eat anything but a little dry food etc. The vet put him on the steroid budenoside (which is better for diabetic cats), but he did not do well on it (4 weeks) and continued losing weight, bloody stools etc, so we switched him to prednisolone 10 days ago + metronidazole (flagyl) + vit B shots (+ probiotics for past 3 days), which worked magic and his diarrhea disappeared almost immediately. He's been doing really well since then: eating well, has put on weight, is happy and playful etc, with the single issue that he is being very picky and refuses all wet food and will eat only dry. For now, I'm not pushing the wet food as he really, really needs to put on weight. I will begin to work on getting him back to wet food once I return from our trip and he's at least 8.5-9 lb.
As you'll see in the SS, the combination of prednisolone and dry food is causing his BG levels to go crazily high, in the 300s mostly. I know I have not been following the protocol of waiting 3 waits before increases strictly etc, because I'm a bit short on time with our leaving on the 25th; please, am only looking for advice here, not being told what I did wrong, lol. I wondered if something was wrong with the insulin, so got a new one yesterday and used it at the PM, but the results were still in the 300s when I did a curve at night.
We will be having a vet tech coming twice a day to give him the pred (1/2 tab every alternate day) and insulin. Since he is only eating dry food, it's going to have to be mainly dry food left out. My question is: please, what dose of insulin do you think she should give him while we're gone? She cannot come in more often to do curves; as of now, I was not going to ask her to test him. We have 3 elderly cats and its been very expensive with all their vet stuff, so it's already expensive having her come twice a day without testing.
I'm guessing 3 or 3.5 units of insulin to be safe? Should I be going higher?
[Note: I mostly use the human meter, but occasionally the Alphatrak if the drop of blood is smaller. In the SS it says "AT" when I used Alphatrak.]
Thank you all so very much. Here's wishing all your sugar babies and you the most beautiful holiday season, Merry Christmas, and a lovely new year!
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. Just trying to balance too many things at once at this moment, whew. It sounds like I should ask her if she could test every day, or at least every other day. Let me see. If the preshot numbers remain in the 300s could he remain at 3u; and if they're below 300 go to2.75? 
