? Dosing question

borg the gorb

borg the gorb

Member Since 2026
George is supposed to be on 3 units of Lantus twice a day but I was told that was too much. I just tested him and hes 358mg/dL. How much should I give him?
 
If he doesn't have a history of ketones, I would drop the dose down to 1 unit twice a day to be safe and stick with that dose for a week. If you're home all day today, you could give 3 units and monitor levels closely just in case. Whatever you feel comfortable doing.

Are you following TR or SLGS? Might be better to do SLGS for now.

Sticky - Dosing Methods: Start Low, Go Slow (SLGS) & Tight Regulation (TR)

Can you fix your SS? The two 107 numbers are from yesterday's PM cycle so need to be in the row above and in the section after PMPS.

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squeem3 said:
If he doesn't have a history of ketones, I would drop the dose down to 1 unit twice a day to be safe and stick with that dose for a week. If you're home all day today, you could give 3 units and monitor levels closely just in case. Whatever you feel comfortable doing.

Are you following TR or SLGS? Might be better to do SLGS for now.

Sticky - Dosing Methods: Start Low, Go Slow (SLGS) & Tight Regulation (TR)

Can you fix your SS? The two 107 numbers are from yesterday's PM cycle so need to be in the row above and in the section after PMPS.

New to Feline Diabetes
Continuarion to borg the gorb
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Ill give him 1 unit just to be safe. Im doing SLGS since hes newly diagnosed. Ill fix my spread sheet in just a moment
 
Please also add a signature. When following SLGS you start with 1 unit if feeding any dry or high carb food. If on all low carb wet or raw you start with .5. The depot will take 5-7 days to fill.
 
borg the gorb said:
Did I do it correctly?
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the spreadsheet is great, you need to insert in the cells the daily BG, is the way we can give you dosing advice by seeing how the insulin works through the day, also if you scroll the SS to the left there's a space for REMARKS there you can type any changes, what you feed, when you increased or decrease dose, we also read these notes, (see Corky's SS) to get an idea
 
good, he's coming down, let us know 1 hour before next shot his BG, so in case you need us we can assist you till shot time, it would be good not to miss next shot if possible, we want to get him regulated to lower numbers ;)
 
CORKY said:
good, he's coming down, let us know 1 hour before next shot his BG, so in case you need us we can assist you till shot time, it would be good not to miss next shot if possible, we want to get him regulated to lower numbers ;)
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Got it! Ill test him before his shot and then give him only 1 unit again
 
ok ! so I would like you to test him at 8PM, post it, then at 10PM before shot, simple TEST-FEED-SHOOT, I shoot Corky while his head is in the bowl, once he's gobbled a few bites, I will be keeping an eye , AI will put my alarm for 8:00pm and check with you a few minutes after, I gotcha! and you got this!!
 
also stay on the Continuation post, the first thread has been attached to that one, this way we don't miss any of your posts
 
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