early dka? ketones trace/small

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Chris & China (GA) said:
Any news @Katsallday ?
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Sorry! I fell asleep literally dead to the world. I slept through my alarms because I was dreaming that I woke up and tested blood and fed him! Crazy! No more 36 hour awake periods for me lol

Ketones are at 1.4, I ordered more strips of them too. I'm trying to decide if I should bring him back for more fluids tomorrow, what do you think? The vet is a fool saying he doesn't use ketones. What does that even mean??? So I'm practically on my own until my normal vet is back. I trust her she's amazing.
 
Katsallday said:
I'm trying to decide if I should bring him back for more fluids tomorrow, what do you think?
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I thought you were giving them. If not yes I would get some more sub Q fluids.
Katsallday said:
The vet is a fool saying he doesn't use ketones. What does that even mean???
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I dont know what that means either.

I see in the SS you have swapped to prozinc.....I can't remember talking about that.
I see you reduced the dose to 0.75 U when you did the swap. I would go back to 1 U next preshot.
Can you draw a line across the SS, colour it and say 'changed to prozinc please so anyone helping is aware of the change?
Also you will need to change the signature as well to prozinc. Thanks!
 
Bron and Sheba (GA) said:
I thought you were giving them. If not yes I would get some more sub Q fluids.

I dont know what that means either.

I see in the SS you have swapped to prozinc.....I can't remember talking about that.
I see you reduced the dose to 0.75 U when you did the swap. I would go back to 1 U next preshot.
Can you draw a line across the SS, colour it and say 'changed to prozinc please so anyone helping is aware of the change?
Also you will need to change the signature as well to prozinc. Thanks!
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I was out of subq, had to tell me vet to do it and then he walked away before I could ask for some for home. He didn't like me and my ketones lol. My husband did the shot while I was driving, I was late leaving the vet almost missed the shot time so before I could ask yall my husband just did it and said anything is better than nothing. And for the second prozinc shot I was in sleep coma. I'll up it to 1u. Is there anything I should be doing differently?
 
Katsallday said:
I was out of subq, had to tell me vet to do it and then he walked away before I could ask for some for home. He didn't like me and my ketones lol. My husband did the shot while I was driving, I was late leaving the vet almost missed the shot time so before I could ask yall my husband just did it and said anything is better than nothing. And for the second prozinc shot I was in sleep coma. I'll up it to 1u. Is there anything I should be doing differently?
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So you are swapping to prozinc permanently now? Is it still in date and not opened for more than 6 months? I'm assuming you used it before for Tuna...is that correct?
With prozinc you can test, feed and then shoot one after the other. You don't need to wait. It is a gentler insulin than vetsulin and longer lasting.
 
Bron and Sheba (GA) said:
So you are swapping to prozinc permanently now? Is it still in date and not opened for more than 6 months? I'm assuming you used it before for Tuna...is that correct?
With prozinc you can test, feed and then shoot one after the other. You don't need to wait. It is a gentler insulin than vetsulin and longer lasting.
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Actually I got it from the vet. It's the same office as the vet that refused to give me insulin, but a different vet there. I didn't like this vet either but I hate vetsulin with a passion and I needed fluids anyway so I got it. It's brand new, brought a cooler and ice pack to the vet.
 
Bron and Sheba (GA) said:
You are doing a great Job!
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Thank you! It's all cause of yall that I can handle this in any form. I remember when I posted looking for a cat nurse to deal with tunas diabetes because of my panic attacks :joyful::joyful: now here I am with a foster full of ketones, a bad URI, diabetes, constipation and anisocoria. I couldn't do this is yall weren't here for me :bighug:
 
Ketones popped back to 1.7 back at the vet for fluids, I asked for a bag so well see if they'll actually let me buy it
 
Katsallday said:
Can you take a look at his spreadsheet? Why isn't he responding to insulin?
And should I bring him for more fluids in the morning?
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200 ml is a lot of subQ fluid to give a cat in one go. How long does it take for the fluids to totally disappear from under the skin?

The ketones are reducing which is great so I would stay with 1 unit for now and we can review each day.
He has not reached the best dose yet but we don’t want to raise the dose too quickly.
Keep feeding him lots of food. How is his eating going.
 
Bron and Sheba (GA) said:
200 ml is a lot of subQ fluid to give a cat in one go. How long does it take for the fluids to totally disappear from under the skin?

The ketones are reducing which is great so I would stay with 1 unit for now and we can review each day.
He has not reached the best dose yet but we don’t want to raise the dose too quickly.
Keep feeding him lots of food. How is his eating going.
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He doesn't want to eat as much as I want him to, maybe 3-3.5 purred cans a day. His ketones are back to 1.2 I just checked
 
Katsallday said:
He doesn't want to eat as much as I want him to, maybe 3-3.5 purred cans a day. His ketones are back to 1.2 I just checked
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Keep trying with the food. Remember let him eat whatever he will eat. Don’t worry if it is not low carb at the moment….we just want him to eat.
 
Bron and Sheba (GA) said:
Keep trying with the food. Remember let him eat whatever he will eat. Don’t worry if it is not low carb at the moment….we just want him to eat.
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Ketones down to 0.9. I want off this Rollercoaster :banghead: he seemed interested in dry food but considering how he's not responding to insulin I am very nervous to risk really high carb dry. So no fluids in the am?
 
Bron and Sheba (GA) said:
See what the ketones are in the morning. As long as they are under 2 I think I would wait until the next day. Im just concerned about 200mls a day.
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I'm with you, I've been worried about heart problems from the get go so I'd rather skip fluids today anyways. Still sitting at 0.9 ketones :( his bg is up to 395?!

Edit: he has had 3 cans of fancy feast in 9 hours. His next feeding is coming up. Did I go too hard? I'm just so worried about ketones
 
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