Suzanne & Darcy
Member Since 2020
Yes, I'm starting to see a few yellows. I realize that he's always flat and I know about the (I think terribly inaccurate) 20% meter variance which always drives me crazy.
Anyway, something is "off" about Darcy this morning. He vomited at 6 a.m. (+11) so I checked his BG and it was only 289 and his ketones were 2.1 (he always has high ketones these days and that was actually down a tiny bit from yesterday). An hour later when I went to give him his shot, he was at 270 (after first getting what I thought was a fake reading of 376). But normally he eats with great gusto. He was slow in his eating today. So far (about 45 minutes since he ate) he hasn't vomited again, but I'm keeping a close eye on him. I may take him into the vet for a little in house bloodwork to make sure he's not getting an infection. I'm sure they think I must be an "alarmist," but anybody who has spent $5,000 on a cat who had DKA and hepatic lipidosis would understand that you need to jump at the first sign of something wrong. I'd rather spend a few hundred now than thousands later on.
I worry about his liver. Back in early October 2020, when he spent the week going back and forth every day and night between the ER vet and the regular vet, my vet did an ultrasound of his liver. She said it had a "moth eaten appearance" and that there were many spots that were hyperechoic. We even did a fine needle aspiration and sent it off to the lab. There was one large spot that she said she could not reach with the needle, but she sampled many other spots that had the same appearance on the ultrasound. The cells sampled were not cancerous, and seemed much more consistent with fatty deposits (the hepatic lipidosis). I have him on Denamarin and he has been on it for a few months now (although I only give it once a day and probably should be giving it twice a day).
This could be an infection. He seems prone to them. When he was first admitted to the hospital he had a very high fever and they treated him with several different kinds of IV antibiotics and we went home with antibiotics and kept him on them for maybe 30 days, as I recall. Later on, when I took him back for a recheck his white count was up again. I think it was maybe after being off the antibiotics for a month or so? I'd have to go back through all my vet records to find out. Then after another course of Baytril his white count was down to WNL again.
So that's a little bit of history and why I am so worried if he's not doing his usual "eating like a horse." Yes, his numbers are down a little, but not enough (I thought) to cut his appetite first thing in the morning like this. Soooo... he may have a little vet visit today? Sorry this is so long.
Oh, my question is: Has anybody else out there been told that their cat's liver was hyperechoic or "moth eaten in appearance." At the time of the ultrasound, the rest of his organs looks fine, she said (pancreas was not inflamed, kidneys looked good, etc.
Yesterday's post:https://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB...301-4-277-8-323-pmps-264.242086/#post-2727318
Anyway, something is "off" about Darcy this morning. He vomited at 6 a.m. (+11) so I checked his BG and it was only 289 and his ketones were 2.1 (he always has high ketones these days and that was actually down a tiny bit from yesterday). An hour later when I went to give him his shot, he was at 270 (after first getting what I thought was a fake reading of 376). But normally he eats with great gusto. He was slow in his eating today. So far (about 45 minutes since he ate) he hasn't vomited again, but I'm keeping a close eye on him. I may take him into the vet for a little in house bloodwork to make sure he's not getting an infection. I'm sure they think I must be an "alarmist," but anybody who has spent $5,000 on a cat who had DKA and hepatic lipidosis would understand that you need to jump at the first sign of something wrong. I'd rather spend a few hundred now than thousands later on.
I worry about his liver. Back in early October 2020, when he spent the week going back and forth every day and night between the ER vet and the regular vet, my vet did an ultrasound of his liver. She said it had a "moth eaten appearance" and that there were many spots that were hyperechoic. We even did a fine needle aspiration and sent it off to the lab. There was one large spot that she said she could not reach with the needle, but she sampled many other spots that had the same appearance on the ultrasound. The cells sampled were not cancerous, and seemed much more consistent with fatty deposits (the hepatic lipidosis). I have him on Denamarin and he has been on it for a few months now (although I only give it once a day and probably should be giving it twice a day).
This could be an infection. He seems prone to them. When he was first admitted to the hospital he had a very high fever and they treated him with several different kinds of IV antibiotics and we went home with antibiotics and kept him on them for maybe 30 days, as I recall. Later on, when I took him back for a recheck his white count was up again. I think it was maybe after being off the antibiotics for a month or so? I'd have to go back through all my vet records to find out. Then after another course of Baytril his white count was down to WNL again.
So that's a little bit of history and why I am so worried if he's not doing his usual "eating like a horse." Yes, his numbers are down a little, but not enough (I thought) to cut his appetite first thing in the morning like this. Soooo... he may have a little vet visit today? Sorry this is so long.
Oh, my question is: Has anybody else out there been told that their cat's liver was hyperechoic or "moth eaten in appearance." At the time of the ultrasound, the rest of his organs looks fine, she said (pancreas was not inflamed, kidneys looked good, etc.
Yesterday's post:https://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB...301-4-277-8-323-pmps-264.242086/#post-2727318
