Monica and Atticus (GA)
Member Since 2011
As some of you may remember, Atticus is 10 years old, diagnosed 12/28/11. Started 1u Lantus 2x daily on 12/31/11. He's been eating wet food exclusively for about two weeks now; we started gradually switching immediately upon his diagnosis.
As you can see from his spreadsheet, one unit twice a day doesn't seem to be enough. I emailed his SS to the vet today (who has been very supportive of hometesting) and she says to increase his dose by one unit, so 2 units twice a day. She says she never increases by half, always a whole unit.
I'm going to give him his regular 1u dose tonight and start with the 2 units in the morning so I can watch him during the day tomorrow. With as high as his numbers have been, I don't think I have too much to worry about with the increase, but I still plan to test throughout the weekend and next week.
Thoughts?
Also, he has a couple little bruises on his ears where I think I got too close to the vein. I've put Neosporin on them. Do I need to worry about this? I don't want to hurt him when I test again.
As you can see from his spreadsheet, one unit twice a day doesn't seem to be enough. I emailed his SS to the vet today (who has been very supportive of hometesting) and she says to increase his dose by one unit, so 2 units twice a day. She says she never increases by half, always a whole unit.
I'm going to give him his regular 1u dose tonight and start with the 2 units in the morning so I can watch him during the day tomorrow. With as high as his numbers have been, I don't think I have too much to worry about with the increase, but I still plan to test throughout the weekend and next week.
Thoughts?
Also, he has a couple little bruises on his ears where I think I got too close to the vein. I've put Neosporin on them. Do I need to worry about this? I don't want to hurt him when I test again.