Good evening Angie (I'm assuming) and extra sweet Babygirl! If that's wrong, correct me please!! First, HUGS! I read quickly through your other thread and thought I'd post here.
I can't help with the new vet as I'm WAY south of you but you're on the right path!
My vet doesn't support home testing either AND he uses Novolin N too. We just lost one of our sugarbabies so just have 1 now. We now use Levemir altho' used Lantus for quite a while. My vet told me I was torturing my cats by using their ears to test - I asked him why they came to me when they heard their meter if it was such torture? Why do they both purr thru it? I took my kit in when I knew I was going to be having bloodwork done. I put strip in my meter, KT immediately laid down in our pokie position. When I did the lance the VET cringed, not KT. The vet was amazed. He and I agreed that I would handle their 'dire beasties', he'd just write the insulin prescriptions I needed. You don't need their permission to do it! I still use him for anything else that needs done with any of our fuzzy feetz, just not diabetes.
You've got lots of good info already - we're not crazy internet people, just ones that consider our babies family rather than 'just another animal'. When you get your feet on the ground from this knocking you down, consider changing to a better insulin. Some CAN be regulated on 'N' insulin, it's just not really right for a cat's body. It works fast and hard driving down glucose but then quits so bg zooms right back up high. That can cause Mr. Liver to react by releasing hormones to raise the bg even more - the liver says 'Hey, that's too low or too steep'. That can catch your sweet baby in a cycle that just chases it own tail.
It will probably take a bit for both of you to learn the 'sugar dance' and to test but each time is one step closer to it being just another thing you both do together. Don't get discouraged, we've all been right there in your shoes. If it were so hard, we never would have adopted our second diabetic, Dakota, last year.
HUGS!
