Victoria E
Member Since 2022
Hello, my name is Victoria. My cat Beau, age 11, who was diagnosed with diabetes eighteen months ago, has been seeing a vet regularly but his condition has never gotten stabilized in all this time.
Since the beginning, he has reacted strongly to very low doses of insulin. After trying three or four different kinds, he has been on Lantus insulin glargine (100 unit/ML VIAL) for around 15 months. At this point he is reacting very strongly to simply 1/4 unit of insulin, having recently been getting either 1/2 unit or 1/4 unit, depending on his glucose level at the time the insulin is due, every 12 hours. Now I cannot give him even 1/4 unit without his glucose going so low that I need to feed him extra meals to keep it from going too low. My first question is if anyone has had this problem and been able to resolve it and, if so, how?
My second problem, is that I have yet to become comfortable or good at dealing with the diabetes. I always worry that I'm giving the injection wrong, or in the wrong place, though they usually seem effective, I can never be sure I'm doing it right and, when Beau's going too low, I never get his numbers back up, without having given him too much karo or food so they end up going too high. I have wanted, since the beginning, to be able to be trained by someone who could do it on all these things so I could pass a test, like you need to get a drivers license, that indicated I was doing these things correctly. And I wonder if anyone has advice on how I could find and hire someone to teach me these things. Watching someone give a shot in person or on the web is not enough for me to feel that I know what I'm doing.
I have a good vet who works at a very reputable veterinary practice and emergency center, but I need more instruction than most people to really become competent at this. If anyone has had any experience finding some one to train them, I would appreciate any advice they could give me on how to do that.
Victoria
Since the beginning, he has reacted strongly to very low doses of insulin. After trying three or four different kinds, he has been on Lantus insulin glargine (100 unit/ML VIAL) for around 15 months. At this point he is reacting very strongly to simply 1/4 unit of insulin, having recently been getting either 1/2 unit or 1/4 unit, depending on his glucose level at the time the insulin is due, every 12 hours. Now I cannot give him even 1/4 unit without his glucose going so low that I need to feed him extra meals to keep it from going too low. My first question is if anyone has had this problem and been able to resolve it and, if so, how?
My second problem, is that I have yet to become comfortable or good at dealing with the diabetes. I always worry that I'm giving the injection wrong, or in the wrong place, though they usually seem effective, I can never be sure I'm doing it right and, when Beau's going too low, I never get his numbers back up, without having given him too much karo or food so they end up going too high. I have wanted, since the beginning, to be able to be trained by someone who could do it on all these things so I could pass a test, like you need to get a drivers license, that indicated I was doing these things correctly. And I wonder if anyone has advice on how I could find and hire someone to teach me these things. Watching someone give a shot in person or on the web is not enough for me to feel that I know what I'm doing.
I have a good vet who works at a very reputable veterinary practice and emergency center, but I need more instruction than most people to really become competent at this. If anyone has had any experience finding some one to train them, I would appreciate any advice they could give me on how to do that.
Victoria
