Laura and Harley (GA)
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AMPS=145, shot a skinny 0.20u
I guess yesterday was too good to last, today started off wonky. Harley woke me up at 4:30 am with a yowl and sprint around the house. This happened right after snacking on the remains of his dinner from last night. I followed him around the house until he sat still but then he did the head circling thing first counter-clockwise, then clockwise. (He's done this before and I've told my vet. She's not sure what it could be except that mild stroke or TIAA comes to mind. She did BP, hyper-T and a heart x-ray and at the time, the kidney values were fine.) I stayed with him, petted him and waited until he calmed down. I read a post on Health about a kitty doing something similar and another member said it could be an ear infection or vestibular disease. Something else to look into.
An hour later I took his AMPS and it was 145. I should have waited and retested but I shot a skinny 0.2u. At +2 he's already at 268. Looks like I'm re-learning how to shoot with him now. :?
His appetite seems to have fallen off a little after this morning's 4:30 a.m. scarf. He picked at 2 different kinds of Fancy Feast and meatloafed soon after. I'm picking up a new fluid bag after work today and some more baby chicken and turkey so he'll get another juice bar treatment tonight. Since I can't count on him getting his meds. in his food, I'll have to resort to mixing them in the baby food.
I stepped out last night to take out the trash and recycling and wouldn't you know it, that's when my regular vet called back. cat(2)_steam She left a long message indicating she'd been doing some reading on pancreatitis and FD and that she read about how prednisolone is used with good results for feline pancreatitis. She also looked into Levemir (she'd never heard of it until I told her) and said we could consider it once Harley is better. So it seems like she's trying to be open to learning new things. I wish it didn't take something like this to get her attention though. Both vets seem to agree that he might benefit form pred. If things don't get better, I'll have to restart it but it's got to be a different application than a pill.
Ah well, another day, another hairball.
Wishing everyone GD & GN!
I guess yesterday was too good to last, today started off wonky. Harley woke me up at 4:30 am with a yowl and sprint around the house. This happened right after snacking on the remains of his dinner from last night. I followed him around the house until he sat still but then he did the head circling thing first counter-clockwise, then clockwise. (He's done this before and I've told my vet. She's not sure what it could be except that mild stroke or TIAA comes to mind. She did BP, hyper-T and a heart x-ray and at the time, the kidney values were fine.) I stayed with him, petted him and waited until he calmed down. I read a post on Health about a kitty doing something similar and another member said it could be an ear infection or vestibular disease. Something else to look into.
An hour later I took his AMPS and it was 145. I should have waited and retested but I shot a skinny 0.2u. At +2 he's already at 268. Looks like I'm re-learning how to shoot with him now. :?
His appetite seems to have fallen off a little after this morning's 4:30 a.m. scarf. He picked at 2 different kinds of Fancy Feast and meatloafed soon after. I'm picking up a new fluid bag after work today and some more baby chicken and turkey so he'll get another juice bar treatment tonight. Since I can't count on him getting his meds. in his food, I'll have to resort to mixing them in the baby food.
I stepped out last night to take out the trash and recycling and wouldn't you know it, that's when my regular vet called back. cat(2)_steam She left a long message indicating she'd been doing some reading on pancreatitis and FD and that she read about how prednisolone is used with good results for feline pancreatitis. She also looked into Levemir (she'd never heard of it until I told her) and said we could consider it once Harley is better. So it seems like she's trying to be open to learning new things. I wish it didn't take something like this to get her attention though. Both vets seem to agree that he might benefit form pred. If things don't get better, I'll have to restart it but it's got to be a different application than a pill.
Ah well, another day, another hairball.
Wishing everyone GD & GN!
