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Hi
I have an 11 year old, female friend, Baby, who was diagnosed with diabetus exactly 2 years ago. I live in a rural area of Ireland where the vetrinary practices are mostly for large farm animals; however, her vet is an intelligent guy and altough he had never treated a diabetic cat before he worked with me and we had been treating Baby with Caninsulin. She generely had fairly high BG levels with her dosage of Caninsulin was 14 i.u. I read about Lantus on the internet and decided to try it. It was difficult getting it in here and I ordered in online from a reputable pharmacy. The Lantus was shipped from a pharmaceutical company in India via America before it came to Ireland. In consultation with her vet we started with 1 i.u. and I am now at 4.5 i.u. and her BG is still quite high (between 17 and 19 European levels). She is quite heavy -9KG- and I have reduced her dry diabetic cat food and am feeding her primarily a small pouch Felix with some cooked beef.
I have a few questions and would be most grateful for any help.
1) Does the term i.u. have international recognition i.e. is a 4 i.u the same in Ireland as 4 i.u. in Germany, Canada etc?
2) Any thoughts on whether the Lantus is ok to use after its rather circuitous route? It is quite clear and has a mediciney smell.
Thank you.
 
yes, IU stands for international units, which is a standardized measurement.

i live in san francisco and get lantus from canada that was produced in germany. so it has quite a journey before getting to me, and i haven't had a bad batch from canada yet (canadadrugsonline.com), tho i end up getting it in a styrofoam box at room temperature (with a cold pack that's no longer cold) about 6 days after ordering it. not sure where your lantus from india was produced -- i'd understood it all comes from germany but could be mistaken.

whenever lantus has gone bad for me (from some US pharmacies, and i'm wondering whether shipping or poor handling at the pharmacy is to blame), it has smelled very strongly like bacon instead of the normal lantus medicinal smell. haven't heard anyone else say that. we look for floaties or for high numbers that don't get better to tell the insulin isn't working.

for me, each cartridge i've gotten from canada has lasted to the last drop, which in cleo's case is 2.5 months. many of us in the lantus group here buy cartridges or pens of lantus instead of vials -- if a cartridge or pen goes bad, we'd have 4 others in the box to try.
 
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