Kitty diagnosed for Diabetes, Please Help...Questions

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Good to hear from you! I had been wondering what happened to you and am glad to see you're back!

Happy to hear you got a meter! If you need help with learning how to test, there's lots of information we can give you

How's Char doing?
 
Char is still not doing so well. He is keeping me up all night still and I now have him at 2.5 units twice a day. He has not slowed down in his eating and I desperately need to find a vet now cause his insulin will be gone soon. I have only been able to test his glucose twice. I have tried many times but it is still really hard with him. Money is still very tight. So, any help on finding a vet near Goodyear or Avondale would be great. My car needs breaks so badly I can't drive it. The truck does too but not as bad as the car but gas is really expensive so I hope to find a vet not too far away.
 
You're using Lantus, right Linnea? Even at 2.5 units twice/day, you shouldn't be running too low...depending on if you got the vial or the pen, the vial is 1000 units so would last 200 days...the pens are 300 units so should last 2 months

Which one did you get? The 10ml vial or the Solostar Pen(s)?

Next, are you home testing routinely yet? For such a newly diagnosed diabetic to already be on 2.5 units, I'm thinking you're going too high too fast. What dose did you start at?

We really need you to get a spreadsheet set up so you can put your test results in and we can help advise you on dosing. As fast as you're going up, you may have easily gone over Char's "best dose"....giving too much insulin can cause high numbers just like too little can...and also set them up to become insulin resistant

Here's How to set up a spreadsheet. You really need to work on that and get your test results in so we can help you to help Char!

Let us know what we can do to help you.
 
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