Diabetic Dosing Help

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Great that Tigger is getting back to feeling like his old self again!

Here is a link to Dr. Lisa's web page on transitioning your cat from dry food to wet (link on the right once you open the page). Dr. Lisa drops in when she has time and has been such a huge help to all of us on this board since the spring of 2005:

http://www.catinfo.org/
 
Thanks! But now Tigger won't shut up! :-D
He is used to free feeding and will need to get used to timely feedings from here on out, but he sure does like the FF!

What is the general accepted range for cats anyways? I heard 80-100 but you said 50's and 60's.
 
With a human meter (which tends to run lower than a pet only) it is between 40-120 (without insulin on board) with insulin on board you want it higher especially early in the cycle. Normally we start treating it as hypo setting in at around the low 50s. And anything below that get out the karo syrup and the HC gravy food, you have a hypo happening. (human meters read lower, because they want humans to react to low numbers sooner, rather than later).

But you can look at Maxwell's spread sheet, he is a diet controlled diabetic and he tends to stay in the 60s to 70s. Although he will still every now and then throw me a curve ball and throw a 40ish number. But one thing to remember...no insulin, no hypo, so I don't freak on a 40 with him.

And the safest thing when just starting out, when in doubt post here, someone will guide you.

Mel, Maxwell and The Fur Gang
 
No luck tonight, it wouldn't produce for me.
Although when i put the flashlight in the inside of the ear, I can see a big ole red area of blood in the ear. I hope that is normal and not an issue.
Can't believe I couldn't get anything out of that area.
 
No luck this morning either, will try one more time before I head to work.
I do have a new alarm clock now and it does not have a snooze button! lol
One thing I watch is water consumption and I use a casserole dish for their water. Nightly usage is usually half the bowl of water but last night very little was consumed which is a good sign I think. And we all know what goes in must come out, so that is great news for the litter box and my back! lol

I am ordering a 5 day feeder, but my only concern is Tigger eating all the food and momma not getting any. Tiggers a little piggy! lol
 
If that's the case I would get two feeders. That's what I did with Gabby and Bandit, since Bandit's kitty garbage disposal and Gabby's a delicate eater. I fed them at opposite ends of the kitchen, so when I put their feeders out I did the same thing. I had this kind: http://www.amazon.com/Automatic-Fee...DTJA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1308321930&sr=8-1, so when they heard the voice recording they each would run to their end of the kitchen.
 
No luck on the blood again today. But, his water consumption is waaaaaaay down.
Honestly I have to say its an 80%+ reduction in the water dish, that is soooo awesome.

His poor ear, i almost don't have the heart to poke him again.
I have not dosed him in almost 2 days now and haven't given him dry food in the same time frame.

If switching to wet food does this much, why aren't Vets telling people to change to all wet food?? I've talked to 3 different vets and not one of them mentioned trying a diet of just canned food.
 
Unfortunately, vets have to learn about so many things in so many animals... proper nutrition is only briefly covered.l

My vet, who took some convincing but supports our food choice (in our situation), often forgets about the "no dry rule" in my house when I ask for suggestions for teeth cleaning products etc.
 
Hmmmm, I might do that. I'm actually close to the Twin Cities. Not tooooo far in the boonies.. lol
 
there's several people i can think of in and around minneapolis. and i know they've all actually met up with each other and know each other so i sent a pm to one and asked her if she was close enough or if one of the other gals are rather than hitting all of them at once and bombarded you with too much help :-) so we'll see. i linked her to your new thread about your location so watch there for word from her or one of the other peeps.

eta: with the weekend here i don't know how much amy will be around so i'll send a message to carolynn too just in case
 
I got a couple readings, one last night and then again this morning. I took a prescription bottle and put warm water in it and it fit in the ear nice.
Now, I have not dosed him with Lantus in 4 days and he's been off the dry food for the same time frame.
Reading last night was 315 and this morning 325.
Now, until I can get enough readings for the spreadsheet, do I dose him? He used to be 6u and i slowly reduced that to nothing as the dry food reduced to be safe.

l was thinking like 2u?
 
Hmmmm, google isn't cooperating at the moment. Keep getting this when I click on Use This Template. Is that common?
Google Docs Help Center isn't much help. lol

We're sorry.

We're sorry, your spreadsheet cannot be copied at this time.

Find out more at the Google Docs Help Center.
 
I would post this question in the Lantus forum with a link to this thread or a history of all the information you have so far.

The formatting is a little daunting when you're new. We typically set up our threads daily (or as often as we post), post everything relevant to our cat in that thread (don't start a new thread, just change the subject line of the original if a question has been answered, you need help, draw attention to something, etc), link our last thread or anything important, and label it with with the date, our cats name, and any BG readings and any questions we may have. We do this because it helps to keep all the information for our cat in one place and current so if someone needs help it's all in one spot.

As far as the SS,I had a ton of issues with it too. I don't know what it is, but I like to think it's google docs being very very slow :lol: :lol: A few possible ways to get around this (just ideas):
- try again but quite literally give it a long time to load the "preview" and then select "use this template" and wait awhile and hope it loads (I waited like 10min but it is what worked for me) > followed instructions from the page I referenced earlier (with the exception that I had to make "anyone with a link" able to access it).
- go to the docs page > browse templates (the the top near the search) > FDMB > (the top one) preview (wait for it to load fully) > use this template (wait for it to reload)> last part of above instructions
- can you look at mine and "make a copy"? Then del (ctrl+del?) everything in it, rename it, and save it? Just an idea.
 
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