Re: Silver - need quick answer
Juliet,
Caring for a diabetic cat doesn't have to be stressful, in fact if they are brought down properly it can actually be kind of fun. You start developing a routine, and a partnership grows between you. You start seeing your bubby back again and probably acting younger than you remember him acting in awhile. Because cats are stoic creatures, he has hidden from you the fact that he was becoming diabetic for a long time before you noticed he was even sick. So he didn't become diabetic overnight and he isn't going to be cured overnight either.
We call this a dance for a reason. Just like learning any new dance, you are going to feel clumsy, you are going to trip and fall down, you are going to forget steps or get the steps in the wrong order. And above all you don't try to learn the dance start to finish all in a day or even in a couple days. You break it down into baby steps. It's the same with the Sugar Dance. You two don't need to go from zero to warp speed. Let his body get use to the ever slowly lowering numbers first, let the pinks become yellows, then the yellows become blues and finally blues become greens. But not all in the same day, over days and weeks. First of all it feels better to him not to have those steep peaks and valleys, and second of all, as you get use to him being in those different levels you will gain confidence in giving his dose and leaving him, because you'll know how he works that dose in those numbers.
What's been scaring the bejeepers out of all of us is how much he's dropping and how fast, that isn't typical of how Lantus works, and because it is a depot insulin each shot is building on the next and dropping him farther and farther and faster and faster. With Lantus you want a flat curve, no more than a 100 pts or 5.5 drop from preshot to nadir, and that is still a pretty big drop once you've fine tuned the dose.
Mel and The Fur Gang
