Thank you.
I found a comment by Becky Van Cleave:
"SLGS means start low, go slow. This is what is recommended for all newbies! You have a great starting dose (low) and so now you want to keep it at that dose for 7 days (slow). In that time get your tests whenever you can- the more the better, but do what you can. After one week, you pick a day (weekend or a day off) and you do a ‘curve’ on your cat. That is where you will test every two hours from the AMPM (morning preshot test) to the PMPS (nighttime preshot). For the curve, you stop feeding you cat as usual the 2 hours before the AMPS, then after the shot you let your day go as normal. You will test every two hours, so at +2,+4,+6,+8,+10, WITH HOLD food, PMPS- done. During the day it’s perfectly fine to feed your cat! Just make a note of when they ate so you can see the affects of the food on your cat. Then, based on the curve, you and your vet (or the admins if you first them) will decide if it’s time to raise the dose. We usually go in 0.25U increments, but if a cat is very high or dropping too low, 0.5U may necessary. Then you hold the dose for another week and repeat the curve. Once you get the hang of testing and you get a lot of data on your cat, you can look into TR (Tight Regulation). That’s a much more aggressive dosing protocol where you increase/decrease doses faster- BUT you MUST be able to test as the cats can drop quickly and may need intervention. However, TR has been shown to have a good success rate of getting cats into remission ((those that have no other health issues th
SLGS means start low, go slow. This is what is recommended for all newbies! You have a great starting dose (low) and so now you want to keep it at that dose for 7 days (slow). In that time get your tests whenever you can- the more the better, but do what you can. After one week, you pick a day (weekend or a day off) and you do a ‘curve’ on your cat. That is where you will test every two hours from the AMPM (morning preshot test) to the PMPS (nighttime preshot). For the curve, you stop feeding your cat as usual the 2 hours before the AMPS, then after the shot you let your day go as normal. You will test every two hours, so at +2,+4,+6,+8,+10, WITH HOLD food, PMPS- done. During the day it’s perfectly fine to feed your cat! Just make a note of when they ate so you can see the affects of the food on your cat. Then, based on the curve, you and your vet (or the admins if you first them) will decide if it’s time to raise the dose. We usually go in 0.25U increments, but if a cat is very high or dropping too low, 0.5U may necessary. Then you hold the dose for another week and repeat the curve. Once you get the hang of testing and you get a lot of data on your cat, you can look into TR (Tight Regulation). That’s a much more aggressive dosing protocol where you increase/decrease doses faster- BUT you MUST be able to test as the cats can drop quickly and may need intervention. However, TR has been shown to have a good success rate of getting cats into remission ((those that have no other health issues that would make it not possible))."
I can see going SLGS for a little while longer, and then TR. Does this happen very often?
