Hello everyone!
April is OTJ!
I want to thank everyone for their help. I hope I haven't missed anyone
Wendy&Tiggy, Deb&Wink, kittycat88, Sue&Oliver, Wendy&Neko, Amy&Papaya, MommaofMuse, Barb&Mr.Frog, Elizabeth&Bertie.
I also want to thank everyone else for making this forum such a informative and supportive place.
Some of you have messaged me while I was gone, and given me friendly pokes that people here are still thinking about April. I am sorry for my absence and lack of communication, I had a hospital stay due to a work related incident. My family continued to give insulin, though some of the glucometry numbers are missing from the spreadsheet, as well as full curves as those were written down on paper.
April was diagnosed on April 24th with glucometry readings of 22mmol/L. In a panic I found this place, and help just poured in everywhere. With the help of these awesome people, I figured out Caninsulin wasn't working, Hill's W/D food is garbage, and that I should probably head to Lantus. I switched to Lantus on May 20th, and April started 100% YAZC shortly afterwards (I was mixing it with his old food for a while). His sugars changed over like night and day from 14mmol/L down to the 5 and 6s. Not only that, his curves were flat and lasted from shot to shot. None of this 20+mmol/L before a shot like on Caninsulin.
This was a dry food remission with careful monitoring. I was unable to get him to take in any volume of wet food consistently in a way that I could say that wet food helped.
After approximately a week on Lantus, and bumping him from 0.5units to 0.25, it was time to try 0.1. However I was still in the hospital and nobody could manage to get 0.1 into the needle so we just went without it. Since May 27th, he's been OTJ, and I couldn't be happier. He's slimming down, though still lying around the autofeeder sometimes. The one thing I still can't get him to do is to eat wet food. Still trying, but with very little success.
Here he is being OTJ.
I will continue to be around the forums as much as I can, and anyone can feel free if they want to message me about anything. I am up in the Toronto, Canada area, so anyone can message me if they need help here or locally!
Thanks again everyone! I never thought April would go OTJ. It just seemed that he had a serious case of diabetes going on. I guess I got lucky in that we caught it early.
April is OTJ!
I want to thank everyone for their help. I hope I haven't missed anyone
Wendy&Tiggy, Deb&Wink, kittycat88, Sue&Oliver, Wendy&Neko, Amy&Papaya, MommaofMuse, Barb&Mr.Frog, Elizabeth&Bertie.
I also want to thank everyone else for making this forum such a informative and supportive place.
Some of you have messaged me while I was gone, and given me friendly pokes that people here are still thinking about April. I am sorry for my absence and lack of communication, I had a hospital stay due to a work related incident. My family continued to give insulin, though some of the glucometry numbers are missing from the spreadsheet, as well as full curves as those were written down on paper.
April was diagnosed on April 24th with glucometry readings of 22mmol/L. In a panic I found this place, and help just poured in everywhere. With the help of these awesome people, I figured out Caninsulin wasn't working, Hill's W/D food is garbage, and that I should probably head to Lantus. I switched to Lantus on May 20th, and April started 100% YAZC shortly afterwards (I was mixing it with his old food for a while). His sugars changed over like night and day from 14mmol/L down to the 5 and 6s. Not only that, his curves were flat and lasted from shot to shot. None of this 20+mmol/L before a shot like on Caninsulin.
This was a dry food remission with careful monitoring. I was unable to get him to take in any volume of wet food consistently in a way that I could say that wet food helped.
After approximately a week on Lantus, and bumping him from 0.5units to 0.25, it was time to try 0.1. However I was still in the hospital and nobody could manage to get 0.1 into the needle so we just went without it. Since May 27th, he's been OTJ, and I couldn't be happier. He's slimming down, though still lying around the autofeeder sometimes. The one thing I still can't get him to do is to eat wet food. Still trying, but with very little success.
Here he is being OTJ.
I will continue to be around the forums as much as I can, and anyone can feel free if they want to message me about anything. I am up in the Toronto, Canada area, so anyone can message me if they need help here or locally!
Thanks again everyone! I never thought April would go OTJ. It just seemed that he had a serious case of diabetes going on. I guess I got lucky in that we caught it early.
