Thanks everybody for checking in on us. The vet visit went as well as it could have. Ivy behaved as far as I know (they actually took her to a separate room where it was quiet and as they said away from barking dogs) so they could do the BP check.
They had no problem doing a blood pressure check, which made me extremely happy. The vet listened to her heart and said it sounds perfectly fine, no heart murmur, no issues. He’s not concerned about any heart problems.
He feels that we should leave the dose of methimazole where it is and check it 3 months after the last labs, which puts us at the beginning of August.
So I guess my plan will be to return to him for another visit and labs and see how that goes.
He feels that it’s a balancing act of the kidneys, the thyroid, the diabetes.
He feels she’s a 15 lb., 13 year-old cat who’s not losing weight or exhibiting really any tropical thyroid symptoms, so we shouldn’t rock the boat.
He’s the third doctor to give me this same opinion, so at this point I’m inclined to see what happens at the three-month point on this dose.
I tried to push him about an increase in the dose. He really didn’t think that was a good idea.
Since they were happy to do a blood pressure check, I will continue to monitor that with them (since my other vet absolutely had no interest for 12 different reasons why she thought it wouldn’t be a good idea to attempt to do it due to Ivy’s disposition).
I explained to them the best way to handle Ivy is “less is more”, less restriction, no burrito, just cover her with a towel be gentle… and they were happy to follow those instructions and said they just went very slowly with her. They got everything they needed.
Of course we didn’t do any labs, so we don’t know how that would’ve worked out, but I guess that will be the test for the next time.
I do like this guy so I guess we will give him a shot and see how it goes. He also did not feel I should see a cardiologist at this point, he didn’t feel it was necessary since he thinks her heart sounds fine (a huge relief to me).
He was very impressed that I cook her food for her and she physically looks very good.
He’s also impressed that I put the Libre on myself all this time. (He said he has a dog that he uses a Libre on so we chatted about that a bit.)
Of course, during the visit it was about +6 and all of a sudden her Libre started sending alerts that she was dropping low.
She’s been very low on her Libre all afternoon. (In fact it stopped transmitting data at a certain point) and I did give her a blood test twice. She’s in the 100s on the Handheld, so not terrible.
But of course she had to start dipping as we were there. I did bring food and offered to her. I put it in her crate but of course she didn’t eat it.
We’re all glad to be home and now we just need to let her recover from the sedation. She’s sleeping in her bed. I even gave her a good brushing since she’s sleepy with no fighting back.
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I wanted her to play with the light, but she did not care and came to see what I was holding, went up on her back legs and tried to eat it. She's hopeless.
