learjetta
Member Since 2019
Good morning,
Boris has been pretty stable with normal numbers lately on what we would probably say is 0.1u (recording it as a fat drop dose in our SS, just below the 0 line on the syringe).
This morning, out of the blue, after walking around meowing a bunch, he vomited up some of his overnight food. Then he went and hid in a corner that he doesn't usually sleep in, which raised some alarm bells for me. When we went to test him this morning, my husband commented on how his pupils seemed dilated... then his BG reading came much higher than he's been recently!
We increased him to 0.25u per the protocol, and he ate well (then tried to eat his brothers' food). My husband found a large hairball by the litter boxes, but with 3 cats, it's hard to know whose hairball it might have been. No diarrhea in the litter boxes.
Our Lantus was purchased in the middle of April, so it's almost 4 months old. The vial is still clear, nothing floating in it... would the Lantus going bad cause a sudden spike in his BG, or would it be gradual? We also gave him the last of his gabapentin liquid last night (starting a new bottle today), so maybe it wasn't as potent as normal and his leg is bothering him? He doesn't seem to be limping, but he lived with the pain of that leg for a lot of years before we started pain meds, so he might be able to walk through the pain without a limp.
We also made a food change recently (7/29), and introduced Sheba in for their +6 meals. The boys seemed to be losing interest in the Merrick food, so we decided to add a different brand (what they were eating before Boris was diagnosed). The food chart entry for Sheba isn't broken down by flavor, so maybe the carbs are higher in the turkey/chicken pate than he'll tolerate? I'll go back to just Merrick for now in order to rule that out.
How concerned should I be? What other troubleshooting is recommended? We will definitely be testing him again in an hour or two, just to make sure he's not spiking further. Could he have gone low overnight and be bouncing?
Thanks!
Boris has been pretty stable with normal numbers lately on what we would probably say is 0.1u (recording it as a fat drop dose in our SS, just below the 0 line on the syringe).
This morning, out of the blue, after walking around meowing a bunch, he vomited up some of his overnight food. Then he went and hid in a corner that he doesn't usually sleep in, which raised some alarm bells for me. When we went to test him this morning, my husband commented on how his pupils seemed dilated... then his BG reading came much higher than he's been recently!
We increased him to 0.25u per the protocol, and he ate well (then tried to eat his brothers' food). My husband found a large hairball by the litter boxes, but with 3 cats, it's hard to know whose hairball it might have been. No diarrhea in the litter boxes.
Our Lantus was purchased in the middle of April, so it's almost 4 months old. The vial is still clear, nothing floating in it... would the Lantus going bad cause a sudden spike in his BG, or would it be gradual? We also gave him the last of his gabapentin liquid last night (starting a new bottle today), so maybe it wasn't as potent as normal and his leg is bothering him? He doesn't seem to be limping, but he lived with the pain of that leg for a lot of years before we started pain meds, so he might be able to walk through the pain without a limp.
We also made a food change recently (7/29), and introduced Sheba in for their +6 meals. The boys seemed to be losing interest in the Merrick food, so we decided to add a different brand (what they were eating before Boris was diagnosed). The food chart entry for Sheba isn't broken down by flavor, so maybe the carbs are higher in the turkey/chicken pate than he'll tolerate? I'll go back to just Merrick for now in order to rule that out.
How concerned should I be? What other troubleshooting is recommended? We will definitely be testing him again in an hour or two, just to make sure he's not spiking further. Could he have gone low overnight and be bouncing?
Thanks!
