10/17 Jude | AMPS 158; +5 162; PMPS 196; +2 158; +5 84

yesterday's condo

Jude ran low night last night and dropped into the limes. I had a difficult time getting his bg to come up with food and resorted to honey drops in his food, which we haven't had to do for a long time. I'm assuming this morning and today we are bouncing from those lows. I sure wish I could get my little fella more stable again.

Have a nice Friday, everyone--the weekend's on the way!!

Safe surfs, kittens

Mary & Jude said:

yesterday's condo

Jude ran low night last night and dropped into the limes. I had a difficult time getting his bg to come up with food and resorted to honey drops in his food, which we haven't had to do for a long time. I'm assuming this morning and today we are bouncing from those lows. I sure wish I could get my little fella more stable again.

Have a nice Friday, everyone--the weekend's on the way!!

Safe surfs, kittens

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Hi Mary, I’m sorry you and Jude had a rough night ‍
Makes sense he’s bouncing today.
I hope he comes back down gently today and you can get some rest

Must've been a scary one having to go for honey, if it's been a while. Great job keeping Jude safe
Hope he clears this bounce keep and returns to those good numbers!

Sounds like Jude gave you quite a scare last night, Mary. Wonder why food on it's own didn't do the trick this time round. Maybe something to do with him not being 100% well and on an antibiotic. Hope he feels better and gets into more stable numbers again soon

His numbers have been better in the last 3-4 days. Maybe the Clavamox helped?

Bandit's Mom said:

His numbers have been better in the last 3-4 days. Maybe the Clavamox helped?

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They were better until today, and now they are back up a bit. Is this a bounce?? I stopped giving him the Gaba last night; maybe he's still having pain and that's jacking up his numbers. I'm glad to see he dropped from the PMPS tonight (196!!).

Could be bouncing from 3 nights of dropping to lower greens. If he's lower tomorrow, it was bouncing. If he stays high, you could restart the gaba and see if that helps.

@Bandit's Mom, something that I've been wondering about (and sorry; this is long): When I took Jude to the vet this week, other than the fact that he peed outside the litter box last weekend, he had no other indicators that he was having a FIC flare. And urinating outside the box is BIG symptom, so it's very likely that's what we've been dealing with despite the fact that his urine is clear as a bell, with no blood (which usually accompanies an FIC flare). Besides the urinating outside the box, there is something else that I'm wondering about: When I took Jude to the vet the other day, his nose and eyes were running (clear fluid). I've actually noticed this before when I've taken Jude in for elevated numbers, which I was attributing to either a UTI or FIC flare. The vet disregarded it earlier in the year, and the other day, the vet said that the runny eyes/nose could be an upper resp infectin, but if that was the case, then the Clavamox would take care of it. But, then I remembered that, back a couple of months ago, Harper had a runny eye which we swabbed and cultured; it was Chlamydia and Bordetella. We treated her for a month with Clavamox, and it knocked out the infection, or at least the symptoms have disappeared. At the time I asked the vet if everyone in the house needed to be tested, and the doctor said that if they were not symptomatic, then the test would be negative. Now, I'm wondering if the running nose and eye that Jude is experiencing is the highly contagious Chlamydia and Bordetella. Since being on the Clavamox, his eyes/nose have cleared up. The doctor told me when Harper had the symptoms that it would be very difficult to clear up, thus the one month dose of antibiotics. I wonder if Jude is getting just enough Clavamox to clear things up but not enough to eradicate it? The next time this happens, I'm going to have his eyes swabbed and tested.

I don't have experience with any of those conditions, but you could be on to something. It does make sense to test him the next time he has runny eyes.