18-year-old cat getting blue numbers

[Simon's human]

Simon has been getting numbers in the blues consistently. His diabetes was caused most likely by long-term use of steroids for IBD, and steroids were stopped completely a few weeks ago. Only started home testing July 17 which was the last day he had a PM dose, 1 u. Have skipped ProZinc most days after testing; even .5u dropped to 63 after 3 hours. Only day over 200 was July 23, when AMPS was 229 so gave .25. Dropped to 74 after 4 hours. He had had a stressful long car ride back from camping the afternoon before which could have influenced that rise. Has not had ProZinc since but will do a mid-day test today as well as today's AMPS which was 154. He will have labs at the vet's tomorrow, and I plan to test both before and after to check those numbers. I don't plan to give gabapentin again to reduce stress because last time it turned Simon into a zombie for several hours. I'm hesitant to give insulin when the numbers remain under 200. I admit I worry a lot about numbers that go so low. I am very appreciative for all the help and encouragement I've gotten here - even about how to post Simon's photo, which I finally accomplished this morning. I will try to attach a link to my previous long thread but had trouble figuring even that out before. Thanks!

 

[Simon's human]

137 at 5 hours past AMPS which was a NS. I tried to link previous thread about "18-year-old cat switching to ProZinc...) but just came up with my profile, which isn't helpful. Obviously I'm missing something - again!

 

[Sienne and Gabby (GA)]

These are lovely numbers for Simon but they are still diabetic numbers. Normal range is 50 - 120.

What would you think about trying to shoot 0.1u twice a day? It would look like this:

 

[Katherine&Ruby]

Go back to the main forum welcome page and there is a list of all of the posts. Scroll down to your previous one, click on it to open, copy the URL and paste it into your first post. I've done it for you here: https://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB...ay-need-advice-on-meters.249815/#post-2824164

 

[Simon's human]

Thank you for doing the link for me! Hopefully I can do this myself next time. We have U-40 syringes, but the ones we have are not marked for .5, although I know there are such U-40 syringes. It was pretty hard, but doable, to do .25 which we only did once. I have been a little surprised and confused with different labs having different reference ranges. The lab Simon's vet was using before his diagnosis had 68-192 and the one he is using now has 63-148. According to that lab, reference range for fructosamine is 200-340. I don't have anything to compare that with.