eddis
Member Since 2025
(What a first post to be making in the support group forums.)
Yesterday evening we started back on a low dose - 0.5U. I was nervous, because he was hospitalized last week (after a few days of 1U every 12 hours, following relapse/rediagnosis), so I kept an eye on him for the first few hours. He started with a PMPS of around 400 (this is with a Libre, so high numbers are "out of range") and when I went to bed about four hours later it was at 244.
I had set the "low glucose" alarm at 100 but apparently I managed to sleep through it. Woke up about half an hour ago to numbers in the low 60s. The overnight graph just goes down, down, down.
He'd been sleeping in the bed with me and it was a little hard to identify symptoms one way or another, so I got up and went to feed him immediately. He's currently on a Hill's m/d wet and dry diet (the plan has been to look into changing that after we get him a little more regulated). He ate some of the dry food and stopped (not unusual; he never eats everything in a sitting, he's always been a grazer), but I checked the monitor and it was down to 57.
Yes, I know a blood test would be better. He doesn't tolerate them from me. I'm a solo cat parent and he's a rather big boy (not heavy, but big/tall), and he's shown repeatedly in the past that I can't restrain him sufficiently to get a good reading. And ratcheting up the stress is generally something I try to avoid.
I tried to give him some honey at this point, and he was having none of letting me anywhere near his mouth. (Very normal for him, unfortunately, and he is currently in need of an oral procedure which we had to delay due to relapse.) So I went and got a can of Wellness Signature Selects Shredded White Meat Chicken & Turkey Entrée in Sauce (what I had on hand from before his relapse, unfortunately; never again except in cases like this), and he ate some of that.
As symptoms go, he's moving slowly and somewhat lethargically (though he perked right up to struggle when I tried the honey). After eating he wandered down the hall and cried once; I went and found him immediately, crouched outside the door of my roommate's room, where he could hear her on the phone as she gets ready to leave for Thanksgiving. (My roommate doesn't have much to do with him, but he tends to want to know what someone's doing when he hears them talking and also objects to all closed doors.) Now I'm sitting in the living room near him (he doesn't want to come sit with me, probably because I tried to stick something in his mouth last time he did).
He's trending upwards now (higher than the screenshot at this point - 117 now), but I don't trust it - when he was hospitalized last week, he confused the doctors by plunging again after they got his numbers back up; that was well over 12 hours after he'd had his last shot (of the 1U). I'm scared; I don't want to get to that point again! My vet's office opens in an hour. Thank you thank you for any thoughts.
Yesterday evening we started back on a low dose - 0.5U. I was nervous, because he was hospitalized last week (after a few days of 1U every 12 hours, following relapse/rediagnosis), so I kept an eye on him for the first few hours. He started with a PMPS of around 400 (this is with a Libre, so high numbers are "out of range") and when I went to bed about four hours later it was at 244.
I had set the "low glucose" alarm at 100 but apparently I managed to sleep through it. Woke up about half an hour ago to numbers in the low 60s. The overnight graph just goes down, down, down.
He'd been sleeping in the bed with me and it was a little hard to identify symptoms one way or another, so I got up and went to feed him immediately. He's currently on a Hill's m/d wet and dry diet (the plan has been to look into changing that after we get him a little more regulated). He ate some of the dry food and stopped (not unusual; he never eats everything in a sitting, he's always been a grazer), but I checked the monitor and it was down to 57.
Yes, I know a blood test would be better. He doesn't tolerate them from me. I'm a solo cat parent and he's a rather big boy (not heavy, but big/tall), and he's shown repeatedly in the past that I can't restrain him sufficiently to get a good reading. And ratcheting up the stress is generally something I try to avoid.
I tried to give him some honey at this point, and he was having none of letting me anywhere near his mouth. (Very normal for him, unfortunately, and he is currently in need of an oral procedure which we had to delay due to relapse.) So I went and got a can of Wellness Signature Selects Shredded White Meat Chicken & Turkey Entrée in Sauce (what I had on hand from before his relapse, unfortunately; never again except in cases like this), and he ate some of that.
As symptoms go, he's moving slowly and somewhat lethargically (though he perked right up to struggle when I tried the honey). After eating he wandered down the hall and cried once; I went and found him immediately, crouched outside the door of my roommate's room, where he could hear her on the phone as she gets ready to leave for Thanksgiving. (My roommate doesn't have much to do with him, but he tends to want to know what someone's doing when he hears them talking and also objects to all closed doors.) Now I'm sitting in the living room near him (he doesn't want to come sit with me, probably because I tried to stick something in his mouth last time he did).
He's trending upwards now (higher than the screenshot at this point - 117 now), but I don't trust it - when he was hospitalized last week, he confused the doctors by plunging again after they got his numbers back up; that was well over 12 hours after he'd had his last shot (of the 1U). I'm scared; I don't want to get to that point again! My vet's office opens in an hour. Thank you thank you for any thoughts.
