Question about evening dose

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Alaina and George

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I just gave my cat his evening insulin dose and I smell insulin. I think I missed. I also didn't check him prior to shooting. I am not sure if I should give him more insulin at a reduced dose or wait until tomorrow.
 
Alaina and George said:
I just gave my cat his evening insulin dose and I smell insulin. I think I missed. I also didn't check him prior to shooting. I am not sure if I should give him more insulin at a reduced dose or wait until tomorrow.
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Just let it go - you don't have any way of knowing how much he got.....and so you risk a hypo if you accidentally overdose. We all miss once in a while.

And as an aside - sometimes I smell Lantus after a shot because no matter how you try - sometimes a bit of it stays in the needle.
 
What Em said, you never give a second shot even if you are sure you have given a fur shot...as you have no real way of knowing how much insulin actually got in the cat. Even after 3 years and 3 seperate diabetic cats I still have a fur shot every now and then you just chock it up to experience and wait until the next shot time.

Mel, Maxwell, Autumn & The Fur Gang
 
Thanks for the advice! This is what I was thinking but I wasn't sure. I just got nervous because he's been running high. Interesting enough though, I took my alpha trak to the vet and mine ran 44 points higher than hers. So as a tie breaker we ran George's blood through the lab and it was only one point off from the vets alpha trak reading. So he's not actually as high as what I've been getting. Now to call alpha trak!
 
You could also always get a human meter and save a bunch of money on the test strips. :-D Most of us use human meters and they work just fine for cats. I personally have two different human meters Autumn's is a Bayer Contour and Maxwell's is a Relion Micro which now that he has been OTJ for 2+ years is also Autumn's backup meter.

The advantages of a human meter, cheaper test strips, thus allowing for more testing when needed as well as if you run out the of the Alpha trac in the middle of the night you can't just pop over to Walmart and grab some, since they are only sold through the vet or online.

Mel, Maxwell, Autumn & The Fur Gang
 
MommaOfMuse said:
You could also always get a human meter and save a bunch of money on the test strips. :-D Most of us use human meters and they work just fine for cats. I personally have two different human meters Autumn's is a Bayer Contour and Maxwell's is a Relion Micro which now that he has been OTJ for 2+ years is also Autumn's backup meter.

The advantages of a human meter, cheaper test strips, thus allowing for more testing when needed as well as if you run out the of the Alpha trac in the middle of the night you can't just pop over to Walmart and grab some, since they are only sold through the vet or online.

Mel, Maxwell, Autumn & The Fur Gang
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And I have the Arkray version of the Relion Prime - where the strips are only 9.00 for 50.....takes a bit more blood than the Micro, but now that my cat is used to testing - I haven't had any problem.

Plus, most of the information here is based on the human meter readings since as Mel says that's what most use...so you won't have to be making adjustments for your meter when reviewing the information here. (if I remember right -the Alphatrak reads about 30% higher on the low end than the human meters).
 
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