SierraBreez
Member Since 2026
Micky went to the vet on 10/07/26 for a fructosamine test. Her results were 289. The vet said anything under 300 was very good glucose control.
She was diagnosed with diabetes on 7/08/26, where she was on vetsulin from the 15th at 1 unit 2x daily. Her numbers went from the 400 and 500s BG in the beginning, to 100 to 300 BG before we switched her to Glargine.
On 08/27/26 Micky was switched to Glargine to give her a more steady curve. It did that like he said, and her numbers have not been above 200 since. And in the last month or so her numbers have rarely went above 130.
We use a pet specific meter at home, Pettest meter. She used to eat dry Purina kibble her whole life, switching to a senior version about 2 years ago. After her diagnosis about 2 or 3 weeks later we transitioned her to strictly wet food. She now eats Fancy feast and sometimes nine lives. We attribute the change to strictly wet food to probably being the major cause for her lower numbers now besides the insulin itself.
Initially when we switched her to Glargine 1 unit she dropped low, and wound up missing three shots in a row after her initial dose. She wound up throwing up just liquid that next morning. She seemed fine after we gave her a half a dose for her second shot of Glargine that day. We stuck with half a dose from then on. There was another incident where she wound up missing two shots in a row and she puked liquid again. So we have since always tried to make sure that she never missed two in a row. The vet claims that's unrelated but I'm not so sure. And we did use ketone strips to make sure she wasn't going into ketosis.
Our vet has proven that he does not know much about feline diabetes and he sent an email to my friend showing that he looked up remission procedures through AI!
He instructed us now that her numbers are under good control that, we can go down to one shot a day of the 0.5 units to wean her off insulin and watch what her numbers do. He says do that for about a week. And if her numbers stay consistently below 200 that we can take her off the insulin and then keep monitoring. My friend started the weaning 10/08/26, no p.m. shot. This morning her number was 84 and she wouldn't eat good so she wound up missing a second shot.
Being our vet doesn't know much, it concerns me a little whether this is the proper weaning procedure. I don't want Micky to throw up again from weaning too quickly, and I want her pancreas to have the best chance of being healed. The syringe is hard enough to measure 0.5 units so it would be quite difficult to measure anything lower, but maybe.
I see conflicting stuff all over the internet, so I don't know what the best course of action is. Any advice would be appreciated in helping Micky wean off her insulin. Is this a good way to wean her off the insulin (1x daily 0.5u)?
She was diagnosed with diabetes on 7/08/26, where she was on vetsulin from the 15th at 1 unit 2x daily. Her numbers went from the 400 and 500s BG in the beginning, to 100 to 300 BG before we switched her to Glargine.
On 08/27/26 Micky was switched to Glargine to give her a more steady curve. It did that like he said, and her numbers have not been above 200 since. And in the last month or so her numbers have rarely went above 130.
We use a pet specific meter at home, Pettest meter. She used to eat dry Purina kibble her whole life, switching to a senior version about 2 years ago. After her diagnosis about 2 or 3 weeks later we transitioned her to strictly wet food. She now eats Fancy feast and sometimes nine lives. We attribute the change to strictly wet food to probably being the major cause for her lower numbers now besides the insulin itself.
Initially when we switched her to Glargine 1 unit she dropped low, and wound up missing three shots in a row after her initial dose. She wound up throwing up just liquid that next morning. She seemed fine after we gave her a half a dose for her second shot of Glargine that day. We stuck with half a dose from then on. There was another incident where she wound up missing two shots in a row and she puked liquid again. So we have since always tried to make sure that she never missed two in a row. The vet claims that's unrelated but I'm not so sure. And we did use ketone strips to make sure she wasn't going into ketosis.
Our vet has proven that he does not know much about feline diabetes and he sent an email to my friend showing that he looked up remission procedures through AI!
He instructed us now that her numbers are under good control that, we can go down to one shot a day of the 0.5 units to wean her off insulin and watch what her numbers do. He says do that for about a week. And if her numbers stay consistently below 200 that we can take her off the insulin and then keep monitoring. My friend started the weaning 10/08/26, no p.m. shot. This morning her number was 84 and she wouldn't eat good so she wound up missing a second shot.
Being our vet doesn't know much, it concerns me a little whether this is the proper weaning procedure. I don't want Micky to throw up again from weaning too quickly, and I want her pancreas to have the best chance of being healed. The syringe is hard enough to measure 0.5 units so it would be quite difficult to measure anything lower, but maybe.
I see conflicting stuff all over the internet, so I don't know what the best course of action is. Any advice would be appreciated in helping Micky wean off her insulin. Is this a good way to wean her off the insulin (1x daily 0.5u)?
