Changing from Vetsulin to ProZinc

[Tasia]

Just had discussion with Tiger's vet this afternoon. We are up to 3 units, twice daily, on the Vetsulin plus a diabetic diet and I've never gotten him below 200 since the day he was diagnosed.

Ordered the Pro Zinc - ouch - but it's not the most pricey.

Anyone made this switch? Just wondering if there’s anything I need be on lookout for? Vet recommendation is to start him out on 1 unit of the Pro Zinc and see where we go from there.

IF there is any good news - since his diagnosis he is no longer lethargic (except today - BG was 637 - I flipping croaked three times ); he is re-gaining weight

(he's a BIG cat - formerly weighed around the 16-18 lb mark. Weighed a little under 10 #s the day he was diagnosed - don't get me started it's a long story about him getting adopted out).​

Vet said we may never get him within a normal range however as long as he maintains his quality of life - which for Tiger has always been leave me alone I'm sleeping - continues to regain his weight and we get some muscle built back up in rear legs that we might have to leave it at that.

 

[JanetNJ]

My cat was in vetsulin for a long time. Switched her to ProZinc last year. Cheapest price is on chewy.com.

Getting off the dm food to ff classic might help. And skip the dry food completely.

 

[Panic]

My cat just made the switch from Vetsulin to ProZinc a couple weeks ago. Her numbers were literally going up every day instead of down and a couple awesome members over on the ProZinc forum helped me figure out dosing - the improvement was immediate from the first day. Prior to that she was consistently in the 500-700s.

ProZinc members recommend starting close to the same dose amount, in my cat's case a few people suspected her dose was too high so we went from 4u Vetsulin to 2u ProZinc. Do you have a spreadsheet anyone could look at?