Photorecon
Very Active Member
Hello dear Lantus Experts ,
This is my first post in the Lantus Forum, I was greatly recommended by members of the Feline Health main forum to come here for opinions on dosing. The first vet who diagnosed Small Kitty seemed to know a lot about billing but not that much about feline diabetes. I've been testing since day one with different kind of meter and very different results. Current setup is kind of accurate, it corroborate Vet lab test results with a margin of error of about 18mg/dl or less.
If you take a look at Spread sheet you'll probably understand that I was very concerned about my cat's health, and I proved to be right. After several phone calls informing the Vet of the situation I was not getting any call backs, just being told by technicians not to worry that early on it's normal to have high numbers.
Tired of it, I went to another vet who I could get in touch with. This Vet knew just a bit more to make me increase
the dose from 1.0 / 0.5 for two months to 1.0 / 1.0 units. One week later it was just too little to late, the cat was in full scale DKA, we increased unit to 1.0 / 1.5. I spend 72h nonstop taking care of Small Kitty to save him, feeding him by syringe,
SubQ liquid injection every 8h.. See (Never give up !!<http://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/posts/1668132/>). I finally saved him, by the end of the third day of ER interventions, ketone was
gone and he was eating and drinking again.
Vet didn't assumed HE was the author of this disaster but he was my only reference. The new Vet knew even less about diabetes, he recommended me dry diabetic cat food and told me it was because of scale on the teethes, to give him 400$ to fix it.
So here we are, after 1.5U twice for a week we are now at 2 units 2X/day since almost another week getting scary numbers. The answer of the vet technician is that it's because the cat is starting to eat again but I'm not convinced. Every time I go to this place I come out with a 200$ bill minimum. Simple Ketone test is 100$.
The only difference since the beginning of the new dose is that he's eating A LOT, always asking for more food. He's eating the food (Fancy Feast Classic + Purina MD) I put withing 2 mins and later he'll be asking for more.
Any Idea on what I should do. Lab test results are in my signature, I was not able to understand what was representing what, brand new to this business but my signature has the lab test results I have.
Spread sheet
Lab tests results
Thanks you
Sébastien
This is my first post in the Lantus Forum, I was greatly recommended by members of the Feline Health main forum to come here for opinions on dosing. The first vet who diagnosed Small Kitty seemed to know a lot about billing but not that much about feline diabetes. I've been testing since day one with different kind of meter and very different results. Current setup is kind of accurate, it corroborate Vet lab test results with a margin of error of about 18mg/dl or less.
If you take a look at Spread sheet you'll probably understand that I was very concerned about my cat's health, and I proved to be right. After several phone calls informing the Vet of the situation I was not getting any call backs, just being told by technicians not to worry that early on it's normal to have high numbers.
Tired of it, I went to another vet who I could get in touch with. This Vet knew just a bit more to make me increase
the dose from 1.0 / 0.5 for two months to 1.0 / 1.0 units. One week later it was just too little to late, the cat was in full scale DKA, we increased unit to 1.0 / 1.5. I spend 72h nonstop taking care of Small Kitty to save him, feeding him by syringe,
SubQ liquid injection every 8h.. See (Never give up !!<http://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/posts/1668132/>). I finally saved him, by the end of the third day of ER interventions, ketone was
gone and he was eating and drinking again.
Vet didn't assumed HE was the author of this disaster but he was my only reference. The new Vet knew even less about diabetes, he recommended me dry diabetic cat food and told me it was because of scale on the teethes, to give him 400$ to fix it.
So here we are, after 1.5U twice for a week we are now at 2 units 2X/day since almost another week getting scary numbers. The answer of the vet technician is that it's because the cat is starting to eat again but I'm not convinced. Every time I go to this place I come out with a 200$ bill minimum. Simple Ketone test is 100$.
The only difference since the beginning of the new dose is that he's eating A LOT, always asking for more food. He's eating the food (Fancy Feast Classic + Purina MD) I put withing 2 mins and later he'll be asking for more.
Any Idea on what I should do. Lab test results are in my signature, I was not able to understand what was representing what, brand new to this business but my signature has the lab test results I have.
Spread sheet
Lab tests results
Thanks you
Sébastien
