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Hello everyone,
I've been successful in completing the spreadsheet and posting it in my signature.
I have a few comments because as I was filling it in, I couldn't believe how coherent everything became. The vet did not want me testing outside of the BG curve days, except if I thought Pixie might be hypoglycaemic. I really didn't feel comfortable with this as it felt that I was operating in the dark and that's not a comfortable thing for me. So I tested but not as much as I wish I had after reading here at FDMB.
The first couple of weeks after the DM dx, I was giving Pixie 1 unit and he seemed to get better the first two days and then went downhill from there. So I decided to ask the vet to do the blood test for pancreatitis and this took about a week to get the results. At this point, Pixie was at death's door and the vet phoned and indicated that Pixie had pancreatitis and he consulted with a specialist. This was when Pixie was started on the pancreatic protocol and the consultant wanted us to go back to 0.5 units bid as she was worried about a somogyi effect. Pixie improved but he had up and down days. I completed the BG curves as the vet asked after about 7 to 10 days on a certain level of insulin. When the graphs were sent to the vet, he would decide to increase the dose. In the beginning we increased by 0.5 to 2 units and then jumped to 3 and then 3.5 and 4.
I believe, after reading the lantus protocols, we may increased by too much and may have overshot Pixie's optimum level. This might explain why his numbers got higher and higher between doses instead of getting lower and lower. Maybe he was getting too much insulin and his body was responding and he seemed to go up and down. I'm not sure but I'm really interested in what everyone thinks. Puzzled, Anne.
I've been successful in completing the spreadsheet and posting it in my signature.
I have a few comments because as I was filling it in, I couldn't believe how coherent everything became. The vet did not want me testing outside of the BG curve days, except if I thought Pixie might be hypoglycaemic. I really didn't feel comfortable with this as it felt that I was operating in the dark and that's not a comfortable thing for me. So I tested but not as much as I wish I had after reading here at FDMB.
The first couple of weeks after the DM dx, I was giving Pixie 1 unit and he seemed to get better the first two days and then went downhill from there. So I decided to ask the vet to do the blood test for pancreatitis and this took about a week to get the results. At this point, Pixie was at death's door and the vet phoned and indicated that Pixie had pancreatitis and he consulted with a specialist. This was when Pixie was started on the pancreatic protocol and the consultant wanted us to go back to 0.5 units bid as she was worried about a somogyi effect. Pixie improved but he had up and down days. I completed the BG curves as the vet asked after about 7 to 10 days on a certain level of insulin. When the graphs were sent to the vet, he would decide to increase the dose. In the beginning we increased by 0.5 to 2 units and then jumped to 3 and then 3.5 and 4.
I believe, after reading the lantus protocols, we may increased by too much and may have overshot Pixie's optimum level. This might explain why his numbers got higher and higher between doses instead of getting lower and lower. Maybe he was getting too much insulin and his body was responding and he seemed to go up and down. I'm not sure but I'm really interested in what everyone thinks. Puzzled, Anne.
