My diabetic cat

Just another photo of my guy!

Levemir

Obtaining the PZI (insulin) from the vet has been a shmozzle.

I wanted the Beef, she got me the human. I requested three weeks ago that I really wanted the beef and haven't heard back. grrrrr

In the meantime, I am trying a new human insulin called Levemir. It is long acting and a basal insulin, like Lantus was. We are still in early days (barely two weeks) and I think Kitty's numbers are better than they were on 4 months of Lantus but still too high.

The feline diabetes fun and games continue.

Levemir, I hope you're the trick.

The Feline Diabetes treatment continues

The bad news is that we are going to switch insulin. I guess the good news is that we have something to switch to.

The Lantus is not cutting it. It is inconsistent and driving us MAD. Actually this weekend, I think his numbers weren't too bad. We used to get a 2+ on the urine glucose and now we are at approximately 1/2 on the reading, so this is improvement.

This week on Lantus Insulin: Last Friday AM preshot was 32 mmol/dl. Evening preshot was 26.1. Saturday morning was 19.8 and evening was 19.7. I thought we were on a roll except Sunday morning we were at 26 again and at +4 we were only at 24/
Maybe we rebounded? Who knows?

So, I have spoken with our vetranarian and we are going to try PZI insulin. It is 100% beef and is only one amino acid different from feline insulins (amazing how cows and cats are similar!).

Hopefully we will start getting this under better control. I know we have some made progress but it has been 6 months and it is discouraging.
Wish us luck.

The Feline Diabetes treatment continues...