First 12-Hr Curve Today

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Faye got her first 12 hour curve today. 🥳 Vet started her on 1 unit PZ on 2/12 & she’s running high currently. She also had the following antibiotics during this time:

2/11: Convenia injection
2/19: Started Clavamox, has a couple doses left
2/13: Been on Proviable Forte powder from the capsules. Finishes rounds tomorrow evening. Vet said the maltrodextrine is only on the capsule itself but I don’t know…that seems to be when the glucose elevated and started staying up.

Hoping that with the meds starting to exit her system in the coming days, we’ll see some improvement.

She seems to be feeling well; graduated from her cone necklace last night; abscess fully closed, and she rejoined society in our home today, able to be around her sister again.

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She’s beautiful! Great job getting the curve done. You saw some beautiful blue today. That is very helpful in our decision making process. She can safely be increased to 1.25 units now for her new dose. Let’s hope for lower blue or even green nadirs! You will need to get some mid-cycle tests though so we can track her nadir on the new dose. She’s all healed up now so it should be possible to do.
 
Why was the Clavamox started? She already had the Convenia injection. Convenia injections can be dangerous for cats, but I never mentioned this before because I thought that the only reason she had received a Convenia injection was because she was impossible to pill if you have been giving Clavamox that’s not the case.

This is very informative. Written by a veterinarian who is a member of this Board.

Convenia- long term antibiotic: Is it worth the risk?
 
Suzanne & Darcy said:
Why was the Clavamox started? She already had the Convenia injection. Convenia injections can be dangerous for cats, but I never mentioned this before because I thought that the only reason she had received a Convenia injection was because she was impossible to pill if you have been giving Clavamox that’s not the case.
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Thank you; she’s my Runt. I’ll likely increase dose next weekend…I can’t get the mid-cycles during the workweek. 😭 I now also have the curve #s I can also send the vet.

For the Clavamox, we had the cultures done on the stuff they cleaned out of the abscess and it came back with 3 different types of bacteria; two that Convenia doesn’t treat, and which Clavamox does. They gave us the liquid Clavamox, and I just mixed it with her wet food each day. Someone mentioned a couple weeks ago that Convenia can be dangerous and I was some anxious for a few days. Fortunately, it’s now been 17 days since she got it.
 
Suzanne & Darcy said:
Why was the Clavamox started? She already had the Convenia injection. Convenia injections can be dangerous for cats, but I never mentioned this before because I thought that the only reason she had received a Convenia injection was because she was impossible to pill if you have been giving Clavamox that’s not the case.

This is very informative. Written by a veterinarian who is a member of this Board.

Convenia- long term antibiotic: Is it worth the risk?
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Hi Suzanne. Vet recommended we keep her on the 1 unit of PZ for now and only talk about increasing it if she has other diabetes symptoms (ginger, thirst, excessive urine). She is staying hungrier than she used to but she needs to gain a pound or so too. I’m going to try to start checking her 6 hour mark more often on the weekends to see if we can get it some lower on the 1 unit. I’m hoping that now her meds are starting to exit her system, maybe higher numbers will start trending downward with that too.
 
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