Oh sorry. I assumed it was Lantus!
Why so many changes of insulin?
Cycles with fast drops are too influenced by food. That is, the numbers that come after. At least that's how I read it.
But if you see her AM cycles on Feb 5, 6, 9, 12, 13, 15, her nadirs were between +6 and +7.
Vets must prescribe insulin for animals first, so caninsulin first. Then I read about levemir and remission rates so we tried. Then Mauer got sick, we ended at the ER twice since she wouldn't eat and threw up, I didn't understand that is was depot so I did everything wrong
Then we tried prozinc and the first day she got a massive overdose, cause the vet gave me wrong syringes and told me to draw up to 1.2.. THEN I joined this forum, got her through the hypo and Deb was our savior! Prozinc didn't keep her down there, rarely had blue PMPS and only two blue AMPS. Every time Deb and I talked about switching her back to levemir Mauer started to behave nicely on prozinc.
And since she went on prozinc my vet has been sick. Before that, she told me only to talk to her about Mauer and not the new vet she hired. So I've been on my own since late summer...
I wanted my vets go ahead on the Lev, but I didn't want to wait any longer. So I called the clinic and said "Yo, I'm switching Mauers insulin, could you please note that in her journal? Bye bye!"
They have access to my spreadsheet so they can see what I'm doing, so I guess everything is fine, but really I don't know
I might get spanked when my vet returns!
The vet encouraged me to test before insulin and then +6 in her AM cycle. Below 5 mmol give honey, below 12 mmol don't give insulin. Between 5-10mmol was optimal at +6. And that was on Caninsulin
I didn't think about testing when Mauer threw up, so she might have been have been way too low....
So this time on lev, I'm doing it the right way, testing my butt of!
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