Hi Everyone,
This is my first time posting in this thread, so I’ll briefly tell you a little bit about my male cat Prince. He’s almost 6 years old and he was recently diagnosed with diabetes/pancreatitis/DKA. He previously had crystals, so I was feeding him prescription Hills Science c/d for urinary tract heath. I’m trying to transition him to wet now, but he’s a little reluctant. And he is on Lantus which is why I’m posting here. I have a couple of questions and hopefully you can help me:
I’m trying to decide if I should follow tight or start slow, go slow protocol. The tight seems to provide the best odds for remission, and my sister’s cat JuJu (Ava and Matt, also on this forum) successfully went into remission on it. Thus, I’d like to try it. However, it seems like it requires a lot of bg testing. I am able to do the testing very regularly for the next three weeks while I am on Xmas break (I’m in grad school), but after that, my schedule will not permit testing that often. Would it be okay to start on tight and then transition to start slow if my schedule demands that, or would it be better to just begin on start slow because I know it’s sustainable?
Second: I stayed up last night testing Prince every couple of hours because it seemed like he might be bouncing (very low first thing in the morning, then 250+ during the day). But his numbers seemed pretty consistent (200-300 range). However, he had major drops 50+ every hour the first couple of hours and then kind of plateaued. He was 305 when I tested him at +9 this morning which is way higher than he had been the previous two days (less than 100). What do you think this indicates? Maybe he’s just still adjusting? This is only his 5th day on it. He has had 9 shots total. Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
Thank you!
This is my first time posting in this thread, so I’ll briefly tell you a little bit about my male cat Prince. He’s almost 6 years old and he was recently diagnosed with diabetes/pancreatitis/DKA. He previously had crystals, so I was feeding him prescription Hills Science c/d for urinary tract heath. I’m trying to transition him to wet now, but he’s a little reluctant. And he is on Lantus which is why I’m posting here. I have a couple of questions and hopefully you can help me:
I’m trying to decide if I should follow tight or start slow, go slow protocol. The tight seems to provide the best odds for remission, and my sister’s cat JuJu (Ava and Matt, also on this forum) successfully went into remission on it. Thus, I’d like to try it. However, it seems like it requires a lot of bg testing. I am able to do the testing very regularly for the next three weeks while I am on Xmas break (I’m in grad school), but after that, my schedule will not permit testing that often. Would it be okay to start on tight and then transition to start slow if my schedule demands that, or would it be better to just begin on start slow because I know it’s sustainable?
Second: I stayed up last night testing Prince every couple of hours because it seemed like he might be bouncing (very low first thing in the morning, then 250+ during the day). But his numbers seemed pretty consistent (200-300 range). However, he had major drops 50+ every hour the first couple of hours and then kind of plateaued. He was 305 when I tested him at +9 this morning which is way higher than he had been the previous two days (less than 100). What do you think this indicates? Maybe he’s just still adjusting? This is only his 5th day on it. He has had 9 shots total. Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
Thank you!
