911 I MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE. DONT WANT HER TO DIE FROM IT. HELP PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Tuxedo Mom said:
Looks like she is still not on the forum. Unfortunately tagging only shows up when a person is actually on the forum. I hope her kitty is okay. The last reading looked promising, but the possibility of a second shot when the numbers dropped so much early in the cycle is worrying. :(
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That's what I'm concerned about too. :( I thought maybe it would send an alert. I get an email ping if someone posts on here.
 
TempestsMum said:
That's what I'm concerned about too. :( I thought maybe it would send an alert. I get an email ping if someone posts on here.
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If you have set it for "watch thread" on a certain thread and your permissions are set for e-mail notifications then you will get an e-mail alert. However if she has already gone to bed...which I assume is what happened, since she was up all night...then she won't see any of the posts or alerts until she is awake again.

@Mom-mom's Mommy When you do see these comments please do post and let us know how your kitty is doing. We tend to worry about every kitty on this forum :bighug::bighug:
 
338. I am soooo glad. Because I couldn't find her at first, she was in a spot she has never been in before. She was laying on the basement floor, it is kind of humid out and it's really cool down there. We are coming out of a severe heat wave so I am giving the central air a small break. Her +12 is at noon time, (4 hours away). Now because of this I am scared to shoot. I definitely know to give her a reduction. She is at, just a hair short, of a 1.0. How much of a reduction do you think?. Back it down to .5 ???
 
Mom-mom's Mommy said:
338. I am soooo glad. Because I couldn't find her at first, she was in a spot she has never been in before. She was laying on the basement floor, it is kind of humid out and it's really cool down there. We are coming out of a severe heat wave so I am giving the central air a small break. Her +12 is at noon time, (4 hours away). Now because of this I am scared to shoot. I definitely know to give her a reduction. She is at, just a hair short, of a 1.0. How much of a reduction do you think?. Back it down to .5 ???
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Well the problem was you thought you double shot, right? If that's the case no reason to reduce
 
I was an active member 4 years ago, when she originally got sick. But I backed off for some reason. I am glad I decided to come back to this site last might. You guys are great. I learned soooo much from this site. I tell my VET things he didn't know. And he is 60 yrs. old. I have read several books also that the vet gave me to borrow. Too bad I am too old to go back to school, I'm 48. But then again, no matter how sick an animal is, I would NEVER be able to euthanize it. I would cry all day if I even saw it, LOL. I saw a seagull get run over by a car in Atlantic City and cried for an hour. My husband was soooo embarrassed. There was a lady that was feeding it cheese curls from her motel room and this young kid came flying in the parking lot and squashed it. My husband laughed all day about that. I guess it is a little funny. After all, seagulls are the only scavengers still around.
 
I just reread your first post... I see you said she's been holding the dose for 17 hours. That's great bit it leaves her high several hours a day.

I would suggest you pick a time 12 hours apart and reduce to 0.5 units each time to get two shot times a day. That may help level her out. I'm not an expert levemir doser, so maybe you could start a new thread in the lantus/levemir forum and see what those folks think.
 
JanetNJ said:
I know you have a lot going on, but could you set up a spreadsheet so we can see what's happening more clearly? It would help us to give you advice. If you aren't up for it I understand. There are folks that can set it up for you if you need help.

http://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/fdmb-spreadsheet-instructions.130337/
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That is so nice of you. I am going to ask Rhianon to do it for me. I don't think, well I don't know, if she is still on since kitty passed a few months ago. Do you know her?
 
Mom-mom's Mommy said:
I was an active member 4 years ago, when she originally got sick. But I backed off for some reason. I am glad I decided to come back to this site last might. You guys are great. I learned soooo much from this site. I tell my VET things he didn't know. And he is 60 yrs. old. I have read several books also that the vet gave me to borrow. Too bad I am too old to go back to school, I'm 48. But then again, no matter how sick an animal is, I would NEVER be able to euthanize it. I would cry all day if I even saw it, LOL. I saw a seagull get run over by a car in Atlantic City and cried for an hour. My husband was soooo embarrassed. There was a lady that was feeding it cheese curls from her motel room and this young kid came flying in the parking lot and squashed it. My husband laughed all day about that. I guess it is a little funny. After all, seagulls are the only scavengers still around.
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Oh! A fellow nj person! Hi neighbor! I would be upset seeing a bird killed too. I had a bird fly into my windshield once and I lost it. If course of was on my way to a students (2nd grade) funeral so I was already a mess. I wouldn't be able to handle being a vet either.
 
JanetNJ said:
I just reread your first post... I see you said she's been holding the dose for 17 hours. That's great bit it leaves her high several hours a day.

I would suggest you pick a time 12 hours apart and reduce to 0.5 units each time to get two shot times a day. That may help level her out. I'm not an expert levemir doser, so maybe you could start a new thread in the lantus/levemir forum and see what those folks think.
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She just started showing me these great number within the last week. I test ALL THE TIME. She doesn't even mind anymore. As a matter of fact, if I am sleeping and her blood goes either too high or too low, she meow's her head off at the foot of my bed. If I am in the living room, she just jumps in her testing chair. She has never did a false alarm yet (4 years). When she holds a number for 18-21 hours, I test at least once an hour. If it's at night, I set my alarm so I wake up. Her numbers do NOT go high even a little bit. Here is an example of her numbers from Thursday. (I keep a daily log on a chalk board on the refrigerator. So on Wednesday her shot was at 3 pm, she was 276. at 6 pm she was 190, at 9pm - 170, at 3 am 120, 8 am - 114, and then finally at 12:45 pm she went to 226, so I shot. Thats her numbers for the past 2 weeks or so.
 
Mom-mom's Mommy said:
She just started showing me these great number within the last week. I test ALL THE TIME. She doesn't even mind anymore. As a matter of fact, if I am sleeping and her blood goes either too high or too low, she meow's her head off at the foot of my bed. If I am in the living room, she just jumps in her testing chair. She has never did a false alarm yet (4 years). When she holds a number for 18-21 hours, I test at least once an hour. If it's at night, I set my alarm so I wake up. Her numbers do NOT go high even a little bit. Here is an example of her numbers from Thursday. (I keep a daily log on a chalk board on the refrigerator. So on Wednesday her shot was at 3 pm, she was 276. at 6 pm she was 190, at 9pm - 170, at 3 am 120, 8 am - 114, and then finally at 12:45 pm she went to 226, so I shot. Thats her numbers for the past 2 weeks or so.
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It's really supposed to be dosed at even 12 hour intervals. Post on the lantus boards though and they can be more help there. :).
 
so pleased to see you back Lucy! And glad everything is ok. :)
 
I suggest you take down the red 911 from your thread now. Things seem to be under control. I'm glad it all worked out.
 
I'm glad everything worked out. Amazing group of helpers here on the forum.

Suggestion: Even if you don't do a spreadsheet, record on paper. I do this:
> test
> write down the test and dose
> then I dose
> go back to the paper and make a check mark.

Done for sure, no doubts. There have been sleepless times here too. That removes all the doubt!
 
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I'm glad to see things didn't go south on you - good job! I use Lev also - one of the things I've noticed is sometimes the effects of a higher dose isn't seen for a few cycles. I know you test properly but be sure to not miss any of them for a couple of days. If you need to be out to handle all the crappy things that just happened, it's better to skip a shot. Levemir is so much gentler than Lantus.

HUGS and hugs....and more...you've got your hands and head too full right now. Please keep us posted...
 
Please take down the red 911 icon. Go to the top of your thread to the left end of the title bar. Click on the little menu icon, then on the "None" for title prefix. When people see the 911 they think there's an immediate urgent call for help and this isn't the case any longer.
 
Kris & Teasel said:
Please take down the red 911 icon. Go to the top of your thread to the left end of the title bar. Click on the little menu icon, then on the "None" for title prefix. When people see the 911 they think there's an immediate urgent call for help and this isn't the case any longer.
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What do you think of her dose timing? Can you give insight as a lantus user?
 
JanetNJ said:
What do you think of her dose timing? Can you give insight as a lantus user?
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Lantus does best when dosed very close to 12/12. If you have to deviate from that once in a while then you move the dose time back in 15 minute increments twice a day (at each dose time) or once a day by 30 minutes to get back to regular schedule. Changing dose timing affects the depot such that shooting late acts like a dose decrease and shooting early like an increase. There's little flexibility in dosing schedule with Lantus. If a person's schedule is always erratic and/or unpredictable one of the in-and-out insulins like ProZinc or Vetsulin is a better bet.
 
Mom-mom's Mommy said:
That is so nice of you. I am going to ask Rhianon to do it for me. I don't think, well I don't know, if she is still on since kitty passed a few months ago. Do you know her?
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I know Rhiannon, she's still here! :)

I'm glad your girl is doing well and staying in safe numbers. You did a great job handling her low numbers! :)

Many prayers for you and your family while you are dealing with tragedies. :bighug::bighug::bighug:
 
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