It has been about one month since Feen's diagnosis and I feel guilty and frustrated that he hasn't had any improvement in symptoms since starting on Basaglar. I have been trying SLGS for the first month to ease him into being on insulin. My spouse and I are both teachers and so we are gone from 6:30am-4pm most days and I worry about Feen being home alone for that amount of time so newly diagnosed. He has been on a strict canned food only diet his whole life and I cannot put "emergency" dry food down for free feeding while I am at work because he will gobble it and then vomit, and that concerns me with possible low glucose if he vomits after having to his breakfast/insulin dose. I have not yet been able to do a proper glucose curve at home, but the end of the school year is coming and so I will be home with Feen and able to do that. Regardless, when I have been home and able to spot check between AMPS and PMPS he is always hovering between 200-300. His symptoms are the same as when he was diagnosed: PU/PD and intense food-seeking.
I feel terrible for him and want him to find relief. I am also worried that if I don't see improvement soon in his glucose readings, my vet will not continue to prescribe long/intermediate-acting insulin. She wanted him on short-acting only SID and I had to convince her to let me try this for the first month. As it is, she did not want me dosing BID even though that is what research supports.
Should I continue to proceed with SLGS? I'm just surprised that he is exactly the same now as he was without any insulin a month ago. I would have hoped for at least a small change. He is currently on 1.5u BID and only weighs 10 pounds. My syringes have half-unit increments and so when I raise his dose I try to only increase by 0.25u but sometimes it is closer to 0.5u.
