? BG still erratic, help needed please

PMPS 6.6 :woot:

@MrWorfMen's Mom what do you think I should do? I’m gonna stall 20-30 min and see if it goes higher but I don’t think it will go by much. As luck will have it, I can’t shoot too late tonight as I’ve got to go to work early tomorrow. I have max 1 hour from now and that’s pushing it a bit :banghead:
 
How long post shot can you comfortably test tonight? If need be is it possible for you to set an alarm and grab a later test if needed? I think Perlutz is likely to bounce tonight and this will all be a non-issue but we all know they don't always do what we expect them to do.
 
MrWorfMen's Mom said:
How long post shot can you comfortably test tonight? If need be is it possible for you to set an alarm and grab a later test if needed? I think Perlutz is likely to bounce tonight and this will all be a non-issue but we all know they don't always do what we expect them to do.
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I can stretch testing till +5/+6 but if need be, I could set up alarms during the night as well
 
Then I think you should go ahead and shoot but take dose down to 3.25u. He seems to often have these lows at the end of the cycle so he's either a very late nadir kitty or the dose may be a bit high or he just likes messing with us. Test at +2 and see where he's going and we'll decide how to proceed test wise from there.
 
Right... Mr P ate half of his dinner and walked away :eek: Don't know if he doesn't have much appetite or it's the low numbers making him less desperate.

Should I still shoot full 3.5 or go for 3.25 or less?
 
I took the rest of the food to him and he finished it slowly. I chickened out a little bit and I shot between 3.25 and 3.5, a skinny 3.5 I guess it would be called.

Perlutz is chilling on the bed and I swear this little cat feels all my emotions, he know something is going on :woot:
 
Georgiana & Perlutz said:
I took the rest of the food to him and he finished it slowly. I chickened out a little bit and I shot between 3.25 and 3.5, a skinny 3.5 I guess it would be called.

Perlutz is chilling on the bed and I swear this little cat feels all my emotions, he know something is going on :woot:
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You've got to do what you're comfortable with, Georgiana. I can feel your nerves!
I do think our kitties pick up on our emotions, yes. Hope you both have a calm and relaxing evening :)
 
He bounced to 20.7 at +2 :facepalm:

Also just noticed he has like a rash on his tummy :( Like I said, he’s been scratching himself more than usual this week, I brought it up to the vet yesterday and showed her a little pink spot I’ve noticed on his back and she recommended Advantage for fleas. I was going to give it to him tonight but with the excitement around shooting time and the possibility of a lot of testing tonight, I thought it’s best left for tomorrow. I’ll add a pic, what do you think this could be? Poor munchkin, as if he doesn’t have enough on his plate already :arghh:
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I just don't get it. I didn't get any alerts for posts past #61! AARRRRGGGHHH! I checked SS and saw that 20.7 and figured I'd get an alert if you posted again but also figured you'd know you didn't need to set any alarms.

As for the redness, any chance he is allergic to something is his food? Any new foods introduced lately? Currently trying to figure out why my girl gets little hive like bumps on her tummy and various other random spots periodically.

I can't believe that pose! Too cute!
 
MrWorfMen's Mom said:
I just don't get it. I didn't get any alerts for posts past #61! AARRRRGGGHHH! I checked SS and saw that 20.7 and figured I'd get an alert if you posted again but also figured you'd know you didn't need to set any alarms.

As for the redness, any chance he is allergic to something is his food? Any new foods introduced lately? Currently trying to figure out why my girl gets little hive like bumps on her tummy and various other random spots periodically.

I can't believe that pose! Too cute!
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I sometimes don’t get alerts myself or I get them hours later...

I’m still up, just tested him actually, he’s 14.9 at +5. I think he should be safe and has the autofeeder set for 1.5h from now but I’ll set up an alarm in 2-3 hours.

I did actually introduce a new range from the same brand, Nature Menu, just this Thursday. I don’t think they should have anything to trigger a reaction but I will check the ingredients carefully tomorrow and as a precaution will stop it for few days. I just hope it’s not something more serious. A month or two ago I had a nightmare where he was covered in these large, round spots of raw skin and I can’t stop thinking of it now :arghh:

As for the crazy pose, it’s daddy’s signature massages :D He always gives him a massage like that and Perlutz adores it! It’s their little thing :smuggrin:
 

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I'm not always getting alerts either - seems to happen sporadically then ok again.

The red area on Perlutz's tummy doesn't look like a flea bite to me - or if it is, he's more likely have several areas like that. Some other little insect bite perhaps, which has just irritated him enough to scratch it and cause the redness... but who knows.

I doubt whether anything in the NM or CH would cause an allergic skin reaction but it's what I feed my Saff so I'll have a look at the packaging later, or sometimes it's easier to go on the manufacturer website and check ingredients. Are you feeding the whole range of CH - the ones including rabbit, goose and pheasant? I suppose it's possible that Perlutz is allergic to something in one of those. Sometimes manufacturers change ingredients too, so look at the Applaws labelling to see if there's anything there you don't recognise. I only feed the free-range chicken variety as Saff's tummy can be a bit delicate... I don't feed her anything with liver, for example, as that seems to upset her.

I'm sure you'd rather not start getting involved in food elimination diets but you could try a couple of days on a very simple diet and see if that makes any difference to bg or itching? There's a new range called Purr & Miaow which is a complete food (I think) and marketed on the premise of being sugar-free etc... looking at the ads it seems to be more or less flaked meat in a broth, so good for hydration. I'll look for the website and link it here in case you think it's worth a try:

https://purrandmiaow.com/
 
It doesn’t look like a flea bite at all, it’s a large area of redness which would only made sense if he had an allergic reaction to the flea bite (apparently that can happen). As of last night, he is definitely grooming more and the redness on his tummy seems more intense.

He is eating 4 CH flavours (Turkey & Rabbit, Chicken and Goose, Duck and Pheasant and Free Range Chicken). He's been eating these since mid July without any issues so I doubt they are causing the redness. However, last Thursday I introduced him to 2 new flavours from Nature's Menu (Chicken with Salmon and Tuna and Chicken and Turkey) along with Country Hunter. However, none of the ingredients in the new food ring any alarm bells. I'll have to check the CH when I get home (hectic day at work) and the Applaws (which he hasn't had much of the past week). I'll withhold the Nature's Menu original range and feed Country Hunter only and see if that helps. But at this stage, I'm very worried and I think another vet visit might be on the cards for poor Perlutz :( I'm also a little worried about doing the flea spot treatment, I'm a little paranoid what if he gets some reaction from that too :rolleyes:

We haven't changed any household cleaning products but I will steam mop all the floors when I get home today, just in case. It seems to be only on his tummy, maybe it's some sort of contact dermatitis. I don't know, at this point I'm considering all possibilities...

2 years ago, when we came back from holiday, he had a small patch missing hair. At that time, we thought it was due to stress and the vet gave him a steroids injection. Last night I think I saw a new (almost) bald patch like that but I'm not 100% sure. I will have to check properly today, it's hard to see, it's on his side where he has been shaved previously and his hair is still not fully grown there.

Thank you for the recommendations, I don't think I've looked at these brands (but then again, I've looked through so many that I might have forgotten about them). I'll have a look and maybe place a small order.
 
True, an allergic reaction to a bite can be/look worse than the bite site itself. I was stung by a wasp a couple of years ago - was a bit painful for a few days and then the area around the sting suddenly got much bigger and itched like crazy... I went to my GP who said I had an extreme reaction to the sting, and he gave me anti-histamines. So there may be something similar going on with Perlutz.

I agree, none of the NM/CH foods should cause an allergy - it would be odd if they did. I do think though that more and more pet food manufacturers these days are jumping on the grain-free / sugar-free bandwagon, presumably because they do actually see a rise in overweight and/or diabetic pets. I'm sorry that I only have NM and CH in stock myself, otherwise I'd send you some others to try. Actually it might be worth messaging a couple of other manufacturers and see if they can send you a couple of sample sachets... there was another new brand recently that I saw somewhere, will try to remember and let you know.

Oh and PS - the tummy redness might be worth posting on Health about - many more people will see it there vs the few that might be following this thread... and please don't think you're a broken record - as I said yesterday, you are definitely not!
 
Georgiana & Perlutz said:
I had a look at this and it's low carb but it contains green lipped mussel. No idea if it's a safe ingredient for diabetes, all I could find is that it's good for arthritis...
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Seems a strange thing to put into cat food but then why not, other foods contain glucosamine and omega 3, maybe this is similar.
Shouldn't be a no no if you want to try it - ask the company for a couple of sample pouches!
 
I gave him the flea treatment tonight. Hoping this was actually a reaction to a flea bite rather than something else!

The poor thing still seems a little under the weather and he must be itchy everywhere, he looks like he really enjoys petting and brushing as if we were actually scratching him :(
 
Crikey, Georgiana, just seen your +6! Maybe he likes the flea treatment! That number should be making him feel better anyway.
Will be interesting to see what you get next ... I bet you're keeping an eye on him via the camera this afternoon ;)
 
Perlutz has to get used to those lower BGs and is bouncing a bit. He'll come back down but may stay high for a few cycles. Annoying but totally normal unfortunately and there is nothing you can do about it but ride it out.
 
It is frustrating but at least you are getting some nicer cycles which is better than being stuck in the reds and blacks all the time, so there is progress. Don't despair!
 
It’s just because I so desperately want him to be in decent numbers and with every red we get, I panic a bit and worry the constant reds might come back :blackeye:
And I could see on him that he didn’t like the red, he wasn’t as happy and relaxed as during the day while in those nice blues.

But his belly looks better! Still scratching a bit but much less than before. Here’s him and his bald belly this morning
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+7 4.2 :woot: :woot: And as luck will have it, today I can’t go back home to test again :nailbiting: I fed him just now and I set up the feeder for 1.5-2 hours from now.
 
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