VictoriaVic
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I have a 8yr old Maine Coon that just over two weeks ago was diagnosed with diabetes from steroid medication that the vets prescribed for an ear infection he nearly died had ketoacidosis.
Since then he's been back home with me with a libra tag and I inject him twice a day with Prozinc. The problem I'm having is one I have zero faith in the vet as she did this to him and didn't do the necessary checks whilst on that medication and the dosages she changing them wildly he started off 5iu then down to 0.5iu then 1 then 2 then 2.5 at the minute she's telling me to give 2iu morning and night ...I don't think this is right on Saturday just gone he went very very low 2.9mmol I battled for 4 hours keeping his levels above that... the Friday before I told her there's been a change in the pattern he tanks at night his numbers go down fast... she's told me to carry on but I've not slept in 5 days because every time at night i have to intervene last night he ate so much food to stop his numbers going too low I was giving it him every hour... I can't carry on like this and neither can my poor cat Amos... weirdly in the day the same dose barely moves it and he is not an active cat he sleeps all the time and has always been that way... they tried to say its down to activity or sensor issues but its neither ...the sensor is showing both the lows and the highs and he's on his 4th one and they've all reported the same... tested his urine this morning he has no Ketones so thats good but I'm wondering if I should change vets now ...its like the insulin doesn't work well enough in the day he stays high teens and too well in the night drops very rapid... I'm so confused and scared feel completely abandoned to making these life and death decisions to keep him going and I'm exhausted.
Since then he's been back home with me with a libra tag and I inject him twice a day with Prozinc. The problem I'm having is one I have zero faith in the vet as she did this to him and didn't do the necessary checks whilst on that medication and the dosages she changing them wildly he started off 5iu then down to 0.5iu then 1 then 2 then 2.5 at the minute she's telling me to give 2iu morning and night ...I don't think this is right on Saturday just gone he went very very low 2.9mmol I battled for 4 hours keeping his levels above that... the Friday before I told her there's been a change in the pattern he tanks at night his numbers go down fast... she's told me to carry on but I've not slept in 5 days because every time at night i have to intervene last night he ate so much food to stop his numbers going too low I was giving it him every hour... I can't carry on like this and neither can my poor cat Amos... weirdly in the day the same dose barely moves it and he is not an active cat he sleeps all the time and has always been that way... they tried to say its down to activity or sensor issues but its neither ...the sensor is showing both the lows and the highs and he's on his 4th one and they've all reported the same... tested his urine this morning he has no Ketones so thats good but I'm wondering if I should change vets now ...its like the insulin doesn't work well enough in the day he stays high teens and too well in the night drops very rapid... I'm so confused and scared feel completely abandoned to making these life and death decisions to keep him going and I'm exhausted.
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