Dosing update

[Breanna H]

Opened my new bottle of ProZinc this morning, hoping that would improve his numbers. Clearly, we aren't going in the right direction today
Increasing to 6u tomorrow morning.
My vet thinks Tigger has been on 1.5u for the past 3 weeks, which is how long she likes me to hold a dose. Obviously, I ignore her, haha. I'm supposed to email her a "curve" in two days. I'm going to ask her if she would write me a prescription for lantus in the email. If I do ever find Tigger's right dose on Prozinc, even if it's like 7u a dose, thats 14 a day, which is pretty pricey in the end.
Hopefully Lantus would be more efficient and less expensive to use, since he would hopefully need a lower dose.
I see a blue number and get so hopeful he is going in the right direction and then we seem to go backwards. Just feeling discouraged today, as usual, and ranting.
Thanks for listening!

Ps. I will start a new thread next post now that this one has reached 50 messages!

 

[Deb & Wink]

I see a blue number and get so hopeful he is going in the right direction and then we seem to go backwards. Just feeling discouraged today, as usual, and ranting.

Rant away. We all need to get our frustrations out.

Thanks for listening!

Any time Breanna.

I don't think Tigger is "broken." It is possible, he is insulin resistant or has acromegaly. You might ask your vet about testing Tigger for those 2 conditions. It's expensive, as the blood has to be mailed overnight to Michigan State University, to their vet diagnostic lab, the only place in the US that does that testing.

Not all cats do well on one insulin vs another. You vet should know that, and be willing to write you a prescription for another insulin.