I am following SLGS, because Buddy eats some dry food. i know I test often enough to follow the other. I reduce the dose when he is lower than usual because I will not be around to check him. I am going to raise Buddy on Saturday because i will be home most of the day. Thank you, for your reply, even though it took me a long time to answer. Buddy, has come down some @t 3 today, I am a worried all the time cat Momma.
Janet, the 1st time that I ever did a post on FDMB, you were 1 of the people who answered. Buddy, had his 1st curve at the vet that day and when I brought him home and checked his BG he was @30, this was 1 of the 1st times I had checked his BG. I think that day has made me always afraid of a hypo and he has never had another curve at the vet.
Buddy & I, Thank you, very much. I do think Buddy is very handsome, but he is so nice. When I test him, give him a shot, or give him meds, I always put out a pink house coat for him to lay on. When I get this house coat out, he will come on his own and gets up on the house coat, ready for whatever he gets. At the vets they say there is no other like Buddy, that he seems to think they are trying to help him and never puts up a fuss.Hi Teresa I cannot give dosing advice but I did want to tell you how CUTE your kitty Buddy is...Swooooooon
Best wishes being sent for you both!
jeanne
I thought maybe you'd modified how you follow SLGS. SLGS calls for holding the same dose for 7 days, which you haven't been doing. Try to resist the urge to lower the dose if he's a bit lower at preshot - at this stage of the game you should be good to shoot full dose anything above 150 with confidence, even lower if you can monitor, which you do a great job at. We change dose based on nadirs, not preshots. We usually say experienced SLGS people on Lantus can shoot as low as 90, you just don't have that data yet. The only way to help get them over IAA is to keep showing those antibodies some green.
I appreciate your help, I will try to resist lowering the dose, this always happens at PMPS on a night when it is hard for me to get up because having prior arrangements in the morning. What do you think about upping to 6.5 on Saturday, because I should be home most of the day. Starting on Tuesday My Mother has dr appointments every day and I do not want to up his dose when I can not be here, but I might need to wait to the next week.
At 6.0 units is where we will be. Thank you.
Is that how long it takes to notice a difference when you increase a dose. At PMPS on 7/30/20 on the 1 st check I did of the evening his BG was @ 550, it was in the 500's the night before, I wonder what is causing this. He has a lot of pancreatitis and at 1 time the vet thought his pancreas caused his BG to go higher.
It's kind of ECID with that and Lantus. Some cats give you a preview on the first dose after the increase, some take 5 or 6 cycles. Then there is what we call New Dose Wonkiness, which is a temporary increase in numbers with a depot insulin, that happens shortly after the increase, and may be caused by the depot restabilizing.
That must be happening to Buddy because his BG is higher than before I raised his dose, I have been giving Buddy an extra dose of Bupe when I see the 500's.
. In addition, the flare/inflammation causes his BG to increase substantially.