goldcreekgirl
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Hello, I have a 6 year old tabby with diabetes. We are working with our vet but cannot seem to get the blood glucose under control. We are using a long term insulin and are ready to try Lantis.
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ohbell
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Wanted to say welcome to you and your kittie!
You will never find a better place to be: ask questions, give out information and watch the wheels of kittie land turn. Your baby and you will both be very very happy with the advice, tips, support and just nice long forum hugs!
Let us know all you can about your baby: name, age, home testing, insulin & how much, feeding and what. Any other information you want to share.
Furry paw hugs to you both cat_pet_icon
You will never find a better place to be: ask questions, give out information and watch the wheels of kittie land turn. Your baby and you will both be very very happy with the advice, tips, support and just nice long forum hugs!
Let us know all you can about your baby: name, age, home testing, insulin & how much, feeding and what. Any other information you want to share.
Furry paw hugs to you both cat_pet_icon
As others have mentioned, it's important to be feeding a low carbohydrate diet, dosing Lantus twice a day, and testing at pre-shot and getting at least one test during the AM and PM cycles in order to make sure that you're not seeing a numbers spike at shot times due to a low during the cycle. Home testing is key since most cats experience higher numbers at the vet's office.
There's a great deal of information on Lantus in the starred sticky notes, on the Lantus board. Below is a brief description of the contents of the notes.
There's a great deal of information on Lantus in the starred sticky notes, on the Lantus board. Below is a brief description of the contents of the notes.
- Tight Regulation Protocol: This sticky contains the dosing protocol that we use here. There are also links to the more formal versions -- the Tilly Protocol developed by the counterpart of this group in Germany and the Queensland/Rand protocol developed by Jacqui Rand, DVM and published in one of the top vet journals.
- New to the Group: Everything you wanted to know about the Tight Regulation forum and more. Info on our slang, FAQs, links to sites on feline nutrition and to food charts containing carb counts, how to do a curve and the components to look for, important aspects of diabetes such as ketones, DKA, and neuropathy, and most important, info on hypoglycemia.
- Handling Lantus: how to get the maximum use from your insulin and what to not do with it!
- Lantus depot/shed: This is an important concept for understanding how Lantus works.
- Lantus & Levemir: Shooting & Handling Low Numbers: What data you need in order to be able to work toward remission or tight regulation as well as information if you have a low pre-shot number or a drop into low numbers during the cycle.
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