jhartley15
Member Since 2026
Hello,
Lucius 13 yrs, was diagnosed on December 17 BG 436. The biggest symptom that caused me to bring him to the vet was I started noticing that he could not jump up on my bed and seem to be losing strength in his legs. I also thought that there was more water gone from the bowls and more pee, but I also have two other cats.
Due to the holidays, he didn’t start Lantus December 31. In the interim between December 17 and the 31st, I switched him exclusively to fancy feast pate. He was already eating that in the morning, but was also eating dry food. Historically, I always fed my cats grain free dry food on the lower carb.
However, my oldest cat who recently turned 18 has had very poor digestive issues over the past couple years and in the summer was diagnosed with IBS. Subsequently she was switched over to hydrolyze protein, dry food of which all the cats started to eat because it was difficult trying to manage all of them eating. This food has the #1 ingredient as rice. In this timeframe from the summer to December, Lucius also gained approximately 2 pounds. I suspect from eating this dry food.
I now have her on an automatic feeder that only she can access as she eats all through the night and has lost a lot of weight over the past few years due to her IBS.
I also got the freestyle metre and have been testing his glucose. My instructions from the vet, on Dec 31, relayed to me by the vet techs as they were showing me how to give the insulin that day, were that if he tested over 180 to start him onto 2 units. His weight was approximately 16.7 pounds. Most of his life he’s been around 15.
When I got home, I tested him and he was 310. He was 581 at the vet that day. But I had been testing him for a few days at home and he had been coming in around the high 200 low 300 prior to the insulin. I suspected he was stressed. I gave him 1.5 units.
The next morning he was 106. So I freaked a little, didn’t give him any insulinand then I started to do more research.
So for the past few weeks, I’ve been gradually increasing from 0.5 units.
I’ve been tracking all of the data. I just recently saw your spreadsheet and updated it on my laptop.
I can’t seem to figure out how to upload it yet, but I’m wondering if are able to take a look at the photo of it I attached in the interim.
I’m concerned about the low drops in the morning. I’m still trying to get a handle on what’s too low.
I’m very concerned about the neuropathy. I also started to give him some B12.
Lucius 13 yrs, was diagnosed on December 17 BG 436. The biggest symptom that caused me to bring him to the vet was I started noticing that he could not jump up on my bed and seem to be losing strength in his legs. I also thought that there was more water gone from the bowls and more pee, but I also have two other cats.
Due to the holidays, he didn’t start Lantus December 31. In the interim between December 17 and the 31st, I switched him exclusively to fancy feast pate. He was already eating that in the morning, but was also eating dry food. Historically, I always fed my cats grain free dry food on the lower carb.
However, my oldest cat who recently turned 18 has had very poor digestive issues over the past couple years and in the summer was diagnosed with IBS. Subsequently she was switched over to hydrolyze protein, dry food of which all the cats started to eat because it was difficult trying to manage all of them eating. This food has the #1 ingredient as rice. In this timeframe from the summer to December, Lucius also gained approximately 2 pounds. I suspect from eating this dry food.
I now have her on an automatic feeder that only she can access as she eats all through the night and has lost a lot of weight over the past few years due to her IBS.
I also got the freestyle metre and have been testing his glucose. My instructions from the vet, on Dec 31, relayed to me by the vet techs as they were showing me how to give the insulin that day, were that if he tested over 180 to start him onto 2 units. His weight was approximately 16.7 pounds. Most of his life he’s been around 15.
When I got home, I tested him and he was 310. He was 581 at the vet that day. But I had been testing him for a few days at home and he had been coming in around the high 200 low 300 prior to the insulin. I suspected he was stressed. I gave him 1.5 units.
The next morning he was 106. So I freaked a little, didn’t give him any insulinand then I started to do more research.
So for the past few weeks, I’ve been gradually increasing from 0.5 units.
I’ve been tracking all of the data. I just recently saw your spreadsheet and updated it on my laptop.
I can’t seem to figure out how to upload it yet, but I’m wondering if are able to take a look at the photo of it I attached in the interim.
I’m concerned about the low drops in the morning. I’m still trying to get a handle on what’s too low.
I’m very concerned about the neuropathy. I also started to give him some B12.
