New Members -Please check with us on the dose

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Deb & Wink

Deb & Wink

Member Since 2013
I would like to strongly encourage new members to double check the dose prescribed by your vet with us here on the board. We have seen too many hypos happen when the starting dose is too high or if the increase in dose suggested by your vet is too much. We would like to offer you the opportunity to 'sanity check' the dose with people that live feline diabetes 24/7 and have helped thousands of people.

Let us know:
1. When you started giving the insulin, date and time
2. what insulin you are using and the concentration (u-40 or u-100)
3. how many units you are giving
4. how much your cat weighs
5. what home testing supplies you have, meter and test strips
6. If hypo kit ready and waiting.

Last night, we had another new member in a hypo situation with their cat. Everything is ok now, but it was a very late night for some folks.

Here is the link so you can read about the situation yourself: http://felinediabetes.com/FDMB/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=95241

Please, please, please check with us here before you give that dose of insulin.
 
Deb, that is a truly excellent post! Time and time again we see intial posts from folks mentioning a starting insulin dosage that is way too high. Thank you so much for this.

Actually, I'd rather like to see your post made a 'sticky'.... I bet I'm not the only one....

Eliz
 
Great post! deb - I have an idea for another one...

Newbies - "the dont shoot under 200 rule"

Something around what that "rule" means, who it applies to, how to handle low numbers and so on..
 
Maybe something like "How Low is Too Low to Give Insulin"?

For newly diagnosed kitties, and for those that have been on insulin for a bit and are regulated but need lower doses.

200 when first starting out. also dependent on the insulin being used. I'd never advise someone to shoot low on Novolin or Humulin.
150 over in the TR ISG for Lantus and Levimir
Pzi and Prozinc rules??????? Don't know these.

Options:
1.wait (also called stalling), don't feed, retest in 20 -30 minutes. Post back on this board for advice.
How long can you stall and still keep to your schedule for the next day?

2. give a half dose. When is this appropriate?
Such as going on vacation and caretaker does not know how to test.
Going off to work and can't monitor.

3. skip the dose, know you will get high numbers the next day.

4. skipping too many doses means the dose is too high. Or you are at the point where you need to learn to shoot low numbers.
becoming data ready to shoot those low numbers. How food affects the BG's, used to help a cat "surf".

etcetera, etcetera, etcetera
 
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