Brian
Member
It's been 80 days since we first injected Linus with Lantus and time for an update, here's what's happened in that time frame:
-He had 124 injections for a total of 144 units of Lantus.
-Days since last injection- 14
-He went from eating 1/2 dry food and 1/2 wet food to all wet food within the first 25 days and has been given dry on only 4 or 5 days since.
-He's still not convinced wet food is awesome despite trying all the tricks (parmesan, fortiflora, pleading, bribery, various mind games, etc.)
-He went from 14.99 lbs down to 13.21 lbs (this is good!).
-His prednisilone dose (for allergies) went from 5mg bid down to 2.5mg sid. The wet food seems to be helping here.
-His blood has been tested 259 times, averaging 3.24 per day.
-December average blood glucose (averages computed using a modified trapezoid rule)- 11.4 mmol/L
-December maximum reading- 17.6 mmol/L
-January average blood glucose- 6.0 mmol/L
-January maximum reading- 11.6 mmol/L
-February average blood glucose- 4.5 mmol/L
-February maximum reading- 6.7 mmol/L
-Average over past 14 days- 4.3 mmol/L
-Maximum over past 14 days- 5.7 mmol/L
An overall chart of his BG values (click to enlarge):
The blue dots are tests at injection times, vertical scale is mmol/L. The little spike a couple days ago- his appetite was very poor so we caved and fed about 150kcal worth of EVO kitten dry food for a couple of days which he greedily devoured. The spike (up to 5.7 mmol/L) happened the next day. No dry food the past 48 hours and he was back down to 3.7 mmol/L this morning. This is only a couple day test for a relatively small change and it could be a coincidence but the dry seemed to take a couple of days to have an impact on the numbers, and another couple of days to clear.
Future plans:
-His appetite seems back, and we're trying some new brands of wet food he seems to like (Fancy Feast).
-Easier on the dry if we're worried about low food intake next time.
-We'll move to 1/day testing after today provided he continues to stay low.
-Try to lower pred dose even more.
-Enjoy not having to inject insulin while we can and hope we never have to again
-He had 124 injections for a total of 144 units of Lantus.
-Days since last injection- 14
-He went from eating 1/2 dry food and 1/2 wet food to all wet food within the first 25 days and has been given dry on only 4 or 5 days since.
-He's still not convinced wet food is awesome despite trying all the tricks (parmesan, fortiflora, pleading, bribery, various mind games, etc.)
-He went from 14.99 lbs down to 13.21 lbs (this is good!).
-His prednisilone dose (for allergies) went from 5mg bid down to 2.5mg sid. The wet food seems to be helping here.
-His blood has been tested 259 times, averaging 3.24 per day.
-December average blood glucose (averages computed using a modified trapezoid rule)- 11.4 mmol/L
-December maximum reading- 17.6 mmol/L
-January average blood glucose- 6.0 mmol/L
-January maximum reading- 11.6 mmol/L
-February average blood glucose- 4.5 mmol/L
-February maximum reading- 6.7 mmol/L
-Average over past 14 days- 4.3 mmol/L
-Maximum over past 14 days- 5.7 mmol/L
An overall chart of his BG values (click to enlarge):
The blue dots are tests at injection times, vertical scale is mmol/L. The little spike a couple days ago- his appetite was very poor so we caved and fed about 150kcal worth of EVO kitten dry food for a couple of days which he greedily devoured. The spike (up to 5.7 mmol/L) happened the next day. No dry food the past 48 hours and he was back down to 3.7 mmol/L this morning. This is only a couple day test for a relatively small change and it could be a coincidence but the dry seemed to take a couple of days to have an impact on the numbers, and another couple of days to clear.
Future plans:
-His appetite seems back, and we're trying some new brands of wet food he seems to like (Fancy Feast).
-Easier on the dry if we're worried about low food intake next time.
-We'll move to 1/day testing after today provided he continues to stay low.
-Try to lower pred dose even more.
-Enjoy not having to inject insulin while we can and hope we never have to again
