She is eating great but her little nose is either stuffed up or bubbling with mucous, so basically no change. She has an appointment Sunday. I hate to do another culture, expensive and money could be put towards CT Scan or X-rays with an endoscopy to scope her nasal passages, hopefully get a biopsy. But I would like to know if the antibiotics got rid of the pseudomonas, culture may be the only way. There is probably thickening of the walls of her sinus track. Possible polyps, even cancer.
So sorry Elise you are feeling so bad. Hope the side affects are gone soon. Dolly was on the antibiotics for 14 days, last dose 3/01. There is no way to know which antibiotic will be affective, if any. As terrible as this may sound, if it is cancer, I don’t think it is based on how she is doing overall, I would not put her through chemotherapy. I love her more than I can express but Dolly has changed with this second round of active diabetes. She is having terrible trust issues. I know how much she loves me, she watches or follows me everywhere but I have become an ear poker sometimes causing pain because her ear gets sore and a medicine giver, she hates getting meds. She no longer sits on my lap, waits for us on the bed when we have to leave for awhile. Just a lot of changes in her behavior. She has always had trust issues from the day we adopted her. I’ve never had a cat like Dolly, we have done everything we could think of to make her less afraid. Here we are almost 8 years later and still trying to make her feel safe.
QOL ? She’s higher again today but very low last night. I am hoping for remission so her life doesn't revolve around testing. Even less testing. She is compliant but hates it. Do you think remission is still a possibility?I’m fine now. It was only really bad Saturday night through Monday early.
I suggest you think about keeping her in safe numbers but not quite as low so you won’t need to poke her as much. There needs to be a balance between keeping her as healthy as possible with the diabetes and QOL. This is just my opinion. You need to do what is best for you and Dolly.
She was great with testing for a long time and then one day it was as if she said “I’m over it”. She is still compliant, she doesn’t resist, but she is not happy about it. I don’t understand her numbers now. These higher numbers am but substantially lower at night. Do we just continue on this dose? Do I continue to prevent her dropping below 50 with mc but also prevent any possibility of a reduction? Am I making any sense? I did understand what you were saying as well about just keeping her nice and safe. I’m not ignoring your words but my hopes for her are to get her off insulin and testing once a week or less.
What do you mean “want a reduction”? If you look at her spreadsheet sheet I have been starting to not test most of the afternoon, last 4-6 hours before PMPS.
