3catHousehold
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Hi - My name's Jen and my newly diabetic cat is Sir Thomas. I also have two other cats - the girl is the oldest (I think) and the healthiest; the other boy we've been treating for kidney disease for two years this May. I'm definitely a little overwhelmed having two cats with two different illnesses to actively manage and care for.
I've been reading and searching posts for a few days, which have been very helpful. I was even able to get a spreadsheet set-up, though it doesn't have a lot of entries.
We're a little over a month into this and even though we're struggling with the glucose numbers still, we've seen definite improvement in the amount of water he's drinking and urine he's producing. We did a first ketone test today and that was negative, which was nice to find out. I think my next order of business is to find the U-100 syringes so we can give and measure more accurate fractional doses (I think I saw them on Amazon?). Would any syringes labeled U-100 work or are there variations like gauge that I should look for?
We're using the ProZinc insulin two times a day, twelve hours apart and are currently giving a dose of 1.5 units each time. I'd be curious to learn if there are others out there that had good +6h numbers but with pre-shot numbers in the 400's - and if so, where did you go from there? It seems like we can only go down in dosing from where we're at to avoid the +6h numbers getting dangerously low (like what happened one day last week when he vomited his breakfast and didn't eat again before the +6h test). From what I've read, it doesn't seem like continuing to stay at this dosage for longer than a week will result in any positive change in his glucose numbers, right? I've read some about the rebound effect, but haven't seen specifics on the kinds of numbers people get when that occurs, so not sure if we might be in that situation or not.
P.S. Just before we started insulin, we switched him over to mainly eating classic FF wet food (from mainly Iams dry food). He's definitely enjoying the switch, as is the girl cat!
I've been reading and searching posts for a few days, which have been very helpful. I was even able to get a spreadsheet set-up, though it doesn't have a lot of entries.
We're a little over a month into this and even though we're struggling with the glucose numbers still, we've seen definite improvement in the amount of water he's drinking and urine he's producing. We did a first ketone test today and that was negative, which was nice to find out. I think my next order of business is to find the U-100 syringes so we can give and measure more accurate fractional doses (I think I saw them on Amazon?). Would any syringes labeled U-100 work or are there variations like gauge that I should look for?
We're using the ProZinc insulin two times a day, twelve hours apart and are currently giving a dose of 1.5 units each time. I'd be curious to learn if there are others out there that had good +6h numbers but with pre-shot numbers in the 400's - and if so, where did you go from there? It seems like we can only go down in dosing from where we're at to avoid the +6h numbers getting dangerously low (like what happened one day last week when he vomited his breakfast and didn't eat again before the +6h test). From what I've read, it doesn't seem like continuing to stay at this dosage for longer than a week will result in any positive change in his glucose numbers, right? I've read some about the rebound effect, but haven't seen specifics on the kinds of numbers people get when that occurs, so not sure if we might be in that situation or not.
P.S. Just before we started insulin, we switched him over to mainly eating classic FF wet food (from mainly Iams dry food). He's definitely enjoying the switch, as is the girl cat!
