Hi there, First of all I have to say thank you to everyone whose post I have poured over, whose ss I have read line for line and all the times I have needed to read someone elses story just to compare #'s with. This website and all the sugar kittys fur families have been a life saver, thank you. This is long, sorry.
So here we go.... Putter was on Lantus starting Aug 4th and he was never quite right, he was having some huge swings in his BG's, a real roller coaster ride for him and I. He was absolutely starving all the time, PU/PD, very frantic for most of his day and into the long nights, howling, not in the best of moods and not himself by a long stretch. Well, we finally decided that Lantus (unfortunately) was not the insulin of choice for him. We switched him to ProZinc (not my choice, I preferred Lantus just because of everything I read and heard), his doc wants gentle curves even if the #'s are alittle high :shock: for awhile and after just 1 week I have noticed his #'s ARE coming down but not at that scary slam to the ground way but gently. Oh, he is hovering around the low 3's but he seems sooooo...much better. He is not scarfing his food, he is eating fairly close to his pre-diabetes days, no pu/pd, no howling at night, he is grooming his civvie friend once again, he was playing with his favorite mouse yesterday, he is once again rolling in the sun and chasing the dragon flies, he even happily brought one in the house for me the other night (lovely). All in all he seems so much better. We started him out on 1u BID. We are not so much worried about his higher #'s right now just want him to level out.
We were thinking that his liver was just screaming with the bouncing around that he was doing on Lantus and causing rebound, soooo...we are hoping with getting his #'s to level his liver will be happier.
It has certainly been a roller coaster for his dad and I (mostly me) and I am a fanatic at home testing, so the #'s freak me out. I am now looking at "the whole cat" and I am beginning to like what I see. I cannot tell you how many times I cried after seeing those crazy #'s. Looking at the whole cat is certainly the way to go. I see my kitty again as a whole not a #.
Thank you once again for all the great info and passion at taking care of the wonderful kitties.
So here we go.... Putter was on Lantus starting Aug 4th and he was never quite right, he was having some huge swings in his BG's, a real roller coaster ride for him and I. He was absolutely starving all the time, PU/PD, very frantic for most of his day and into the long nights, howling, not in the best of moods and not himself by a long stretch. Well, we finally decided that Lantus (unfortunately) was not the insulin of choice for him. We switched him to ProZinc (not my choice, I preferred Lantus just because of everything I read and heard), his doc wants gentle curves even if the #'s are alittle high :shock: for awhile and after just 1 week I have noticed his #'s ARE coming down but not at that scary slam to the ground way but gently. Oh, he is hovering around the low 3's but he seems sooooo...much better. He is not scarfing his food, he is eating fairly close to his pre-diabetes days, no pu/pd, no howling at night, he is grooming his civvie friend once again, he was playing with his favorite mouse yesterday, he is once again rolling in the sun and chasing the dragon flies, he even happily brought one in the house for me the other night (lovely). All in all he seems so much better. We started him out on 1u BID. We are not so much worried about his higher #'s right now just want him to level out.
We were thinking that his liver was just screaming with the bouncing around that he was doing on Lantus and causing rebound, soooo...we are hoping with getting his #'s to level his liver will be happier.
It has certainly been a roller coaster for his dad and I (mostly me) and I am a fanatic at home testing, so the #'s freak me out. I am now looking at "the whole cat" and I am beginning to like what I see. I cannot tell you how many times I cried after seeing those crazy #'s. Looking at the whole cat is certainly the way to go. I see my kitty again as a whole not a #.
Thank you once again for all the great info and passion at taking care of the wonderful kitties.
