? Roswell Prozinc Dosing Help

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Ashlynn6

Ashlynn6

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Roswell was diagnosed 12/30/20, he's on Prozinc 2 units, but lately we've had two pre-shot numbers under 200. I'm so new to all of this and my vet is of no help, he's already told us that Roswell is too high and we need to move to 3 units and come back in a week. I know from all my reading here on the board, that doesn't seem like a good idea. My gut is telling me to back down to between 1.25-1.75. My husband is nervous about 1/4 doses because there's no exact marking on the syringe. We've also been pretty much free feeding wet food from 6:45am-4:30pm. Yesterday I tried something new and only feed 3 meals, that's when this morning we got a 185 on AlphaTrak. Should I be more regimented about his meals? Also should we be feeding him overnight? Currently he's not getting any food from about 8pm to 6:30am. But he's a pretty quiet cat at night, he usually sleeps.

Here's where I've been tracking his numbers. this morning 185, last night preshot 327, morning preshot 330

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lVLUmrcIoHpE-Fi4qoTiITOgCY7rO70RrFNZoJCBmko/edit?usp=sharing
 
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Hi Ashlynn,

Yes you will want to be feeding during the night cycle as well. Most of us use a Petsafe 5 Feeder to accomplish this. Free feeding is fine as long as food is picked up 2 hours prior to pre-shot. If you want you can also keep most meals before nadir (when Roswell is at his lowest BG) as food can "burn up" insulin sooner than 12 hrs.

I would drop back down to 1.75u, he dropped below 90 which warranted a reduction. Make sure you have half-unit markings and eyeball between the ticks on the syringe to get quarter units. :)
 
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