Hi everyone! New here. Our cat, Lasagna, has been diagnosed with diabetes and we've been treating him for about a month. Current regimen is 2 units twice a day. We are also using the Freestyle Libre to monitor levels. Vet advice was to not give insulin if his numbers are around or below 200 at meal time. This evening we were rushing around, doing too much, didn't scan before feeding and administering insulin. Realized about 15 min later, scanned, he was at 142. We immediately added more food (higher carb dry food) to his bowl (still has his normal lower carb wet food in it) to try to counteract... What else should we do? Should I try to rub honey on his gums preemptively? Do we need to take him to the emergency vet? It's nighttime here, so monitoring him through the middle of the night will be tricky.
I guess I'll be staying up all night! A few nights ago, we woke up and scanned him, and he'd been reading 'LO' on the freestyle for a couple hours, and he was acting totally fine. We have no idea why that happened, there was nothing abnormal about his food or insulin the previous night...
I do not see a spread sheet with test numbers set up in your signature. Do you have one? Also- there are NOT always symptoms when numbers are low. You have to keep testing and feeding through regardless of lack of symptoms. looks like I’ll be up all night myself as I think I may have “double shot” my girl which is truly frightening. This COVID brain fog is real ….
Cross post in Main Forum - https://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB...accidentally-gave-unnecessary-insulin.265751/
