Libby and Lucy
Member Since 2009
Jazzy hasn’t had a condo in a while, mostly because there usually isn’t much to say. She spoils me with her consistency. :smile:
Comments are welcome, from everybody. High dose experience, no high dose experience, no Lev experience, everybody. I’m opening myself up even though I know some people disagree with how I’m dosing Jazzy. The goal is to get some conversations started about HD dosing, in a place other than an overwhelmed newbie’s condo.
Jazzy has acromegaly and is currently on Levemir, 10.5 units BID.
My long-term goal for Jazzy is to have a spreadsheet like these:
Porscha - I covet this spreadsheet!
Mouf
For now, my health doesn’t always permit me to monitor very well in the evenings, so I’m letting her run a little higher. My goal right now is all blue, all the time. Jazzy feels better and has a better personality when she is under 200.
WCR: we went to the vet on Monday because Jazzy was limping a little, and also because her outside-the-litter-box episodes have ramped up recently. The out-of-box experiences are not new for her, they happen sporadically and so far there never seems to be a medical reason for it. She’s just a diva. Poor thing, the limp turned out to be because she had some ingrown claws thanks to an old botched declaw job. Apparently deformed little claws can grow back if the declaw isn’t done well. I never even thought to trim her front claws, since she wasn’t supposed to have any. Also her anal glands were impacted and infected. Those were cleared out and the *()$# vet (not my usual vet) gave her a Convenia shot without asking me! My regular vet would never give anything without asking… There was an “insignificant” amount of bacteria in her urine, no a/b prescribed since she has had Convenia. Sent the urine for a culture at my request, but it’s not back yet. Otherwise her bloodwork and urine came back great! Everything is about the same as last year so she’s in good shape. She has lost ½ pound since last year and now weighs 11.8 pounds. She is about 11 years old.
So, we now have Convenia on board, liquipoo thanks to that (started FortiFlora tonight), and still have pee problems. She just squatted on the carpet right in front of me. :roll: I'm at the point of trying to figure out a way to temporarily confine her just to the kitchen, which is the only non-carpeted area in my house. I reduced her dose a little yesterday just in case the numbers were inflated due to infection. I’ll have to watch the numbers for the next few weeks since I don’t have a clue what Convenia (plus infection being cleared) will do. I also started a new vial tonight. I don’t love today’s numbers, but overall I’m pretty happy with where she is so I’ll just go with it for another day or two. Probably I’ll increase on Saturday unless I see some changes.
Thoughts?
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Comments are welcome, from everybody. High dose experience, no high dose experience, no Lev experience, everybody. I’m opening myself up even though I know some people disagree with how I’m dosing Jazzy. The goal is to get some conversations started about HD dosing, in a place other than an overwhelmed newbie’s condo.
Jazzy has acromegaly and is currently on Levemir, 10.5 units BID.
My long-term goal for Jazzy is to have a spreadsheet like these:
Porscha - I covet this spreadsheet!
Mouf
For now, my health doesn’t always permit me to monitor very well in the evenings, so I’m letting her run a little higher. My goal right now is all blue, all the time. Jazzy feels better and has a better personality when she is under 200.
WCR: we went to the vet on Monday because Jazzy was limping a little, and also because her outside-the-litter-box episodes have ramped up recently. The out-of-box experiences are not new for her, they happen sporadically and so far there never seems to be a medical reason for it. She’s just a diva. Poor thing, the limp turned out to be because she had some ingrown claws thanks to an old botched declaw job. Apparently deformed little claws can grow back if the declaw isn’t done well. I never even thought to trim her front claws, since she wasn’t supposed to have any. Also her anal glands were impacted and infected. Those were cleared out and the *()$# vet (not my usual vet) gave her a Convenia shot without asking me! My regular vet would never give anything without asking… There was an “insignificant” amount of bacteria in her urine, no a/b prescribed since she has had Convenia. Sent the urine for a culture at my request, but it’s not back yet. Otherwise her bloodwork and urine came back great! Everything is about the same as last year so she’s in good shape. She has lost ½ pound since last year and now weighs 11.8 pounds. She is about 11 years old.
So, we now have Convenia on board, liquipoo thanks to that (started FortiFlora tonight), and still have pee problems. She just squatted on the carpet right in front of me. :roll: I'm at the point of trying to figure out a way to temporarily confine her just to the kitchen, which is the only non-carpeted area in my house. I reduced her dose a little yesterday just in case the numbers were inflated due to infection. I’ll have to watch the numbers for the next few weeks since I don’t have a clue what Convenia (plus infection being cleared) will do. I also started a new vial tonight. I don’t love today’s numbers, but overall I’m pretty happy with where she is so I’ll just go with it for another day or two. Probably I’ll increase on Saturday unless I see some changes.
Thoughts?
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