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My 7ish yr old 3-legged ball of love, Soldier, is newly diagnosed. I grew up taking care of a diabetic mother so unfortunately this disease is not new to me. I am home-testing 2-3 times on work days and more on weekend days trying to chase down our NADIR. My vet's plan was to BEGIN with 3 units of Lantus twice a day, which I wasn't okay with. I have begun at 1. His spreadsheet is online too. I appreciate the opportunity to find support and knowledge here. Thank you for the effort you put into maintaining this.

Maria
a/k/a Soldier's Mom

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...OkdFZRZm81MXd3TVAtS0cxWERIc3NzRmc&output=html
 
Welcome Marla and Soldier to the FDMB family.

Sounds like you have most things under control and way ahead of the learning curve. Good starting dose of a good of a great insulin for cats, already testing at home and already have a spreadsheet up...Big CONGRATS!

The only piece of the puzzle that I see missing from your first post is diet. What is Soldier currently eating? How much? and how often?

Mel, Maxwell, Autumn & The Fur Gang
 
Thanks for the direction.

Soldier was eating Hills Science Diet Adult Light dry up until a week ago... something I now regret. For the past week he has had boiled chicken, AvoDerm and PetSmart's Simply Nourish. Due to the lack of information surrounding caloric content in Simply Nourish I'm done with that and trying Friskie's Classic Pate (non fish recipes). Everything should fit the P/F/C profile from catinfo.org unless corporate lied...something that I don't underestimate :-(
 
Well I can highly recommend the Friskies Pate Style stuff....got 14 kitties here (2 of which are diabetics). We feed nothing but Friskies Pate and on this diet my one guy just celebrated his 2nd anniversary insulin free and my little girl who I adopted last April as a diabetic after being left by her previous owner for 10+ months with no treatment whatsoever just earned herself another dose reduction today so she will be going down to .25u

It does take some trial and error to figure out what they will and won't eat. I know we tried I think every canned food under the sun to find something all 14 could agree on and finally settled on the Friskies Pate stuff. The menu here is Poultry Platter, Turkey and Giblets, Country Style Dinner & Mixed Grilled on the non fish flavors and Marnier's Catch, Sea Captian's Choice, Salmon Dinner and Ocean Whitefish & Tuna that get rotated in about once a week just to keep the fish lovers happy.

Mel, Maxwell, Autumn & The Fur Gang
 
Maria, welcome to the board!

Good job on getting everything set up and home testing and everything!

Just checking

1. you are choosing the Avoderm ones under 10% calories from carbs right? Some of the flavours are high carb.
2. Keep the lantus in the fridge (not the door). It will last you up to six months. It does have 1 month expiry on it but thats more a human thing as humans get through it faster.

I feed my boys the fancy feast classic pates and they love them - and they are lower carb.

Since you are all set up do you want to move over to the lantus tight regulation forum http://felinediabetes.com/FDMB/viewforum.php?f=9? There are many experienced members over there that can keep an eye on you guys and advise on dose etc.

Wendy
 
There are exactly two Lantus Boards...TR (Tight Regulation) Lantus and Relaxed Lantus, either of which you can get help with using your particular insulin...TR is the higher trafficed board so there is often eyes there when not on the other board. Relaxed is just a little more relaxed on how the posts for each cat is constructed, because we are a smaller group we don't have a lot of the same protocol on how to post.

Mel, Maxwell, Autumn & The Fur Gang
 
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