2/11/12

Well Do Lou continues to do well he is now on 4.5 levemir and overall numbers been staying in blue for most part still been itching way too much so finally gave him a sulfur dip hoping it helps poor thing has had several baths in last couple of weeks and now hides when I put the portable heater in our room a sure sign of a upcoming bath.....more later

1/26 what he up too?

Well not sure what Mr Do Lou is up to these past couple of days on 1/22 he went low 3x in a 24 hour cycle something he has never done and now we have since skipped 3 shots reduced his dose by 1.75 and he is still doing well yeah the Bean here is just totally baffled. He is still itching way too much I ordered a bottle of cortisoothe shampoo and he will get yet another allergy bath when it arrives. Gave him a dose of pred today and I think I will have to use low dose pred off and on again to slow down his attack on his face he is just going to tear his muzzle up he keeps itching it so much. I have a soft e collar on him but its not enough. He has also slowed way down on his dry not sure why?? more bafflement for the Bean until next time.....

Happy New Year

Well we are starting out our new year with a nice blue day today

some progress 12/24/11

Well we went back on levemir on 12/14/11 and ever since then we are slowly seeing better numbers right now he is staying at or I should say around 6.75 with some varying of skinny vs fat he has seen greens several times as well as blues and is staying out of pinks for the most part overall doing much much better urinating and drinking is way less now we are still using the glucoard 01 or relion confirm which are bascially the same meter and comparing to the alphatrak every other day now. I do not intend to ever go back to the FSL again it just cannot be trusted. Do Lou was cute today he was trying to take some ornaments off the tree so will post them to the blog soon

Meter nightmare begins

OMG how can meters be so far off well it has come to our attention in a big way how inaccurate the freestyle lite meter is with cats... for weeks now I have thought he was doing well until recently as noted in previous post that he was showing signs of needing more insulin even though the FSL meter said he was doing great. Well as anyone who goes to his SS can see he is doing poorly its almost back to square one I think jeez I am so annoyed and I am not the only one on the FDMB board having issues. We are slowly getting back up in dose I am upping him every 4 doses for the most part to get him out of the 300 and 400s I mean 400s of all things scary for his kidneys. Been using R pretty much 2x a day a least as well. Hope to see some changes by the end of this week maybe... using A trak for reference and relion confirm and arkray glucocard 01 meters. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiSqUFZ4jesAdGx5cmJDVDd5TnM5U0VId1k3SDFnYVE&hl=en_US&pli=1#gid=0

11/11/11

well Do Lou has not been doing too well when I reduced him so much about 3/1/2 weeks ago for our 2 day trip I did a very drastic reduction to avoid him going low and when I returned my FSL meter gave me the impression he was still doing well BUT he was drinking and peeing way too much finally got a keytone test and had a trace he never has before so I tried jumping up to half his dose before our trip but 2 doses of 3.5 sent him to 37 so I was baffled you could tell he needed more insulin so ordered more alphatrak strips and got some for my relion and both of them told the story looks like he has been in high 200s to low 300s sigh.............. so I am now going to use relion/arkray for daily and alphatrak as always for my reference I no longer can trust my free style lite and will donate them I think to neebies on FDMB soon hope to get him feeling better soon we are up to 2.75 as of this morning figure he needs to be up to 4-5 at least still got a ways to go

first time leaving him overnight

Well we went to a cat show in Simpsonville, SC from friday night 9-2 until sunday night 9-4 and taught John my son how to test and I reduced his dose way down to 2U which was too much I know from what he had been on (6.5) but I did not want him to go low while I was out of town. John did super even testing him far more then I asked since the required tests were only amps/pmps time but I am so glad he and Do Lou now have a testing routine and this will give me more chances now to go overnight be it a cat show or just a weekend away. Do Lou is now on 6.75 I am trying to get his shedd up and him back down to lower blue numbers we are getting there he was urinating and drinking more from running mid 200s all weekend happy to see that slow down.