Amy&Max
Member Since 2011
Hi,
It's now official, Max is OTJ!! He has had 14 days insulin-free and is staying in nice non-diabetic numbers. I don't post on here often and I haven't had a spreadsheet up, but have found the information in this group very useful and have looked at many other kitties spreadsheets since Max was diagnosed.
Max was difficult to regulate, as bouncy as they come and was a master of very big fast drops (380 -> 67 in 8 hours was about his best). There were many failed reductions, at least one dose change a week and always surprises when the numbers came up on the meter. I tried dropping his dose and working back up, going up, going down and he was still all over the place. Looking at the spreadsheets of some of the other challenging kitties gave me some comfort that I was not the only one in this boat. We finally started to get good consistency/stability about a month ago and then he got on the express train to OTJ - we went from a dose of 3.5u to 0 in a week and a half.
The breakthrough for us came when I found a new vet and used his tweaked version of the dosing protocol. I was incredibly lucky to find this vet - he was one of the Queensland University vets who ran the lantus research/trial that we all refer back to. He told me to get more aggressive with it and gave me the kick in the pants I needed to be shooting full doses at low numbers and the results speak for themselves.
The information on here is invaluable - I don't know how I could have coped without it. I have learnt so much and have always felt that there are people here to help if ever I need it. I now just hope that Maxie can keep up the good work and stay OTJ.
Amy
It's now official, Max is OTJ!! He has had 14 days insulin-free and is staying in nice non-diabetic numbers. I don't post on here often and I haven't had a spreadsheet up, but have found the information in this group very useful and have looked at many other kitties spreadsheets since Max was diagnosed.
Max was difficult to regulate, as bouncy as they come and was a master of very big fast drops (380 -> 67 in 8 hours was about his best). There were many failed reductions, at least one dose change a week and always surprises when the numbers came up on the meter. I tried dropping his dose and working back up, going up, going down and he was still all over the place. Looking at the spreadsheets of some of the other challenging kitties gave me some comfort that I was not the only one in this boat. We finally started to get good consistency/stability about a month ago and then he got on the express train to OTJ - we went from a dose of 3.5u to 0 in a week and a half.
The breakthrough for us came when I found a new vet and used his tweaked version of the dosing protocol. I was incredibly lucky to find this vet - he was one of the Queensland University vets who ran the lantus research/trial that we all refer back to. He told me to get more aggressive with it and gave me the kick in the pants I needed to be shooting full doses at low numbers and the results speak for themselves.
The information on here is invaluable - I don't know how I could have coped without it. I have learnt so much and have always felt that there are people here to help if ever I need it. I now just hope that Maxie can keep up the good work and stay OTJ.
Amy
