HELP! Monitor faulty and need to give insulin in 10 minutes

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I just started doing the testing myself last night. Here's the situation. I woke up this morning to test before giving Bradley his insulin, and he was so squirmy (guess he's feeling better - LOL), and I dropped the monitor on the floor and now it is saying it's faulty. ReliOn is sending me a new one but it won't get here for 5-7 days. Now what?

I was just at the vets yesterday and I'm not going back there again.

My thread is floating around here somewhere but here's the run-down real quick:

My cat is on PRoZinc with the U-40 syringe.

The vet previously had me adjusting between 2 and 2.5 units and that was not consistently working and he wsa not regulated on that.

Let's start from yesterday a.m. I gave him 2.5 units at 6:00 am yesterday (per vet guidance). Then he was checked at the vet at 10:00 and his sugar was 107. We came home and he had some dry food. I tested him myself right before his next injection at 6:00 p.m. He was 462. I was going to give him 1.5, but decided to give 2 units. He seems great today, but now I have no monitor!

What should I do? How do I know how much insulin to give? His dose is due in 15 minutes and there's no way I can get to the store for another monitor. I just bought this thing yesterday! Should I give him 2 units again, since if he was still under vet guidance, I'd be giving him 2.5? Sometimes when loading, the monitor looks like it's working fine, but then other times, I get the error message.SilverMoon010

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Re: HELP! Monitor faulty and need to give insulin in 10 minu

I would post this on the health board--there might be more activity there this morning. Maybe someone will see it and can help you .

Personally , I would be conservative with my dose-- but I am no one qualified to give advice .
 
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kse said:
I would post this on the health board--there might be more activity there this morning. Maybe someone will see it and can help you .

Personally , I would be conservative with my dose-- but I am no one qualified to give advice .

Thanks. I posted there first thing this morning before coming over here and still no response. I had to give him something. I gave him 2 units since he was so high last night and his past vet visits sometimes 2 was not enough. I had no clue what else to do and felt totally lost! I'm all so new to this. This is my first real day of doing this myself and look what happened - LOL!

I'll just keep my eye on him all day, but I'm sure he'll be okay with the 2 units. I'm just going to purchase a new monitor today.
 
Re: HELP! Monitor faulty and need to give insulin in 10 minu

Sounds good.

If you are home and can test him through the day you will ge fine.

I am sure Sue and crew will be here shortly, and can help you if needed.

Go get a meter!!!
 
Re: HELP! Monitor faulty and need to give insulin in 10 minu

Sorry, we aren't on so early. Good idea in any emergency to post on the Health board.

I liked the idea of going back to Walmart and telling them your meter was defective - well, it was, it broke when you dropped it :mrgreen: - and ask for another. I don't know what kind of a return policy they have but you would hope it was pretty good. And it is always nice to have a back up - so when ReliOn sends a new one, you will have two.

PZI is flexible, so we can adjust the dose as needed. You don't need to adhere to a strict 12/12 schedule.
 
Re: HELP! Monitor faulty and need to give insulin in 10 minu

That drop to 107 only four hours after the shot tells me that the 2.5u dose is probably too high. The lowest point for most kitties on prozinc is usually 6 to 8 hours after the shot, so he could have gone lower than that that day. The over 400 preshot number that night was probably due to two things: the liver responded to that lower number that it isn't used to and released glycogen into the system (commonly called a "bounce" around here), and the dry food he got has higher carbs than wet food and it brought up the numbers as well.

Do you need to keep the dry food around for another kitty? Is there a way to take the dry food out of the picture? 99.9% of the dry food out there is just too high in carbs for our sugar kitties.
 
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