The Caninsulin Chronicles (some background history)

Initially, our veterinarian wanted my diabetic cat on Caninsulin 2U BID (twice a day). We got absolutely no response. Day after day, the glucometer was reading HI (or >33.4 mmol/dl). We increased to 3U, then 4...

At around 5 units of Caninsulin scary things started to happen, we got crazy highs and crashing lows. We never knew what was going to happen from one day to the next. My poor cat suffered three months of this. It was truly enough to drive anyone MAD. I was a basket case, and certain that I was going to kill my cat and not knowing what to do about it.

We finally got to 6 units and the veterinarian and I decided that we need to try something else. This was NOT working at all. There is a new human insulin called Lantus that seemed promising for cats in an Australian study. I was ready to try anything at this point. So on January 18th, we started the new insulin at 3.5 U BID to treat his feline diabetes.

It is not the savior that I had so desperately hoped for.

To be continued...