Introducing Rosie to the Lantus group (formerly on Caninsulin)

Keryn_&_Rosie

Keryn_&_Rosie

Member Since 2019
Hi everyone,

I'm thrilled to be joining this group. My Rosie was diagnosed about 3mths ago and was prescribed Caninsulin which had not provided suitable control.

I look forward to learning more about how Lantus works and I hope that she responds well to it. Paws crossed!
 
Oh dose time adjustments are going to be a bit trickier on Lantus by the looks of things. Hopefully I won't need to do that anytime soon!
 
Hey there and welcome! Lantus has a learning curve for sure so the more you can read up on the yellow stickies the better. But , we are here to help you so ask questions as that is how we all learned.

Your dose Times will remain the same unless you have to stall to have a low number come up so you can safely shoot.
 
Oh sometimes I can't be home right on 7pm so I was able to adjust the timing of the caninsulin pretty easily, this might take a little more work.
 
Keryn_&_Rosie said:
Oh sometimes I can't be home right on 7pm so I was able to adjust the timing of the caninsulin pretty easily, this might take a little more work.
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Oh I see. There are those here that have the same issue and you just do what you can. A little late isn’t a problem but to have to shoot earlier more than 30 minutes or so could be an issue since any earlier than 30 minutes can act like a dose increase. Is moving your shot time to a different 12 hour schedule possible ?
 
Welcome Keryn and Rosie!

I started out on Caninsulin as well and I am much happier with Lantus so far! Looking forward to seeing your posts on the board :)
 
we switched about the same time you did -- glad to have you on the path with us, interesting to see how differently Lantus works, hope you get good results

:bighug::bighug: :woot::woot: :cat::cat:
 
Hello and welcome from another Caninsulin to Lantus (and later Levemir) user. If you know in advance you'll be late for a shot, you can move the shot time up over a few days. I had a monthly meeting that was at +11.5 so I'd start moving the shot 15 minutes up per shot before hand.

A question for you - any particular reason you started on 1.5 units? Typically we take the dose of the previous insulin into consideration, and Rosie was barely seeing blues on 3.5 units of Caninsulin. A dose closer to 3 units of Lantus might have been a better starting point.

One more thing, I see your signature says feeding twice a day. With Lantus, no hurry to get food into her, so you can feed multiple meals, which is actually easier on the pancreas.
 
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