3/26 Shasta PMPS=262 +2=181 +4=145 +5.5=171 blood work results

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Deborah & Shasta

Deborah & Shasta

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3/25 Shasta

WCR: Most Ps in place. She forgave me for yesterday and gave me lots of snuggles last night and this morning. Appy is ok...always wish it were better. I stopped by my vet's office to pick up Shasta's blood work results. Turns out they emailed them to my old address...which is why I sent them an email from my current email address...hoping they'd just hit reply and attach her results. Oh well. I have them and now I just need to scan them and attach them to this report. Any and all eyes on the results would be appreciated. Currently, she's finishing up her breffis. It's almost time for a +4 poke and then some more fuds. Oh...and I have another lizard in the house.
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Didn't see it...but I saw it's poop on the window sill.
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I know they keep the bug population down, but I don't want it in my house, creeping and crawling around my house. YUCK!

Here is a link to her blood work (hope it works!): https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4QkzekNQKfYQldhWGpmM1czY3c/view?usp=sharing

Sending healthy vines to all our sugar kitties and their hoomins! Blessings!

~Deborah & Shasta


AMPS=168 (8% FF Flaked Chicken & Tuna 1oz & miralax)
+2=216
+4=149 (4% FF Chicken w/ a tiny bit of 13% FF Grilled Chicken in Gravy)
+6.5=143 (3% FF T&G 1oz)

PMPS=262 (5% FF Chunky Chicken 1oz & atenolol & Zobaline) <-not much interested
+2=181
+4=145 (4% FF Chicken)
+5.5=171 (3% FF T&G 1oz)

Poo Pee tally
Pee piles - 3
Poo piles - 1
 
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Shasta's BW looks good! I have no experience with low potassium....I wonder if that's why she's been feeling a big punk here and there. I am sure someone who knows all about it will be along soon.

Enjoy the rest of your spring break, Deborah!!
 
Max has had low potassium only to come back to normal on the next test. I was ready but my vet had me wait and recheck. He was right. It fluctuates.
 
Tillie had low potassium and she was feeling pretty punk and lethargic. We started her on Tumil-K, one tablet BID. Rechecked in 2 weeks, rose to just below the low end of normal. 1 month later, still just below normal. She's definitely feeling better.
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Shasta's K level in 2014 was much lower (2.6). At the time, I started her on PotassiTabs, but have been inconstant in the last 6 months. I'm happy about where her level is in comparison to last year. Really hard to monitor her K levels because of how difficult she is at the vet's office. :oops: On the second page of the report, she's high on the MCHC and EOS...I just don't know what either of those things are! o_O

Another interesting number is the Glucose...170 @ +4 via their technologies. An hour later at +5 (via my Relion micro) is was 72. hmmmm...100 points off. I told my vet this when I talked to him on the phone yesterday. He didn't like that it was that far off.

On a side note, I asked him what insulin he prescribed most often (at one point he asked if I was satisfied with Lantus because he was willing to write a script for a different insulin). He said vetsulin. :eek: Ok, he lost a few points with me, but I didn't feel like getting into it with him about what a crappy insulin it is...or so I've heard. I'm still just thankful that he's willing to work with me and Queen P&V (Piss & Vinegar).

I'm off to get my hairs cut, do a little work in my classroom and my back adjusted. I'll be back in a bit.
 
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I'm sure someone else will be more scientific than me, but the "EOS", or eosinophils, indicate inflammation (allergies) or possible parasites. But, they can also be elevated by stress. My GA civvie Mario almost always had elevated EOS and after repeated parasite tests (he had no other allergy symptoms), we determined it was just stress-induced.

I don't know what "MCHC" is....I know there are SO many values on these reports that, for hte most part, aren't terribly relevant. I think they put them there just to make us helicopter beans nuts!1
 
The reason why my vet held back is because potassium can fluctuate and too high is a real problem as well. I gave my lymphoma/CKD kitty tons of it and never got her above 3.9. It does need to be monitored when supplemented.
 
I think your vet's willingness to work with you on the kind of insulin you want offsets the fact that he prescribes vetsulin most often. Just out of curiousity, are you sure he was referring to just among cats?

I don't have a clue what those tests are for, either. It does sound like, overall, the B/W was good.

I don't blame you on the lizard. I wouldn't want one in my house. We have bees. :eek: I've been finding dead or dying ones periodically for a while, and earlier this afternoon I was out front and heard a loud buzzing. When I looked up, there were tons of them flying around my eaves! Orkin comes Monday to determine if they are honeybees or not. If they are, they can't touch them and we'll have to call a beekeeper to remove them without harming them! :rolleyes:
 
Good to hear the b/w work is pretty good for Missy P&V. I just got back from a vetty visit for my civie who had high EOS on his last b/w. Vetty said it could even be from parasites many years ago. Since he came from a shelter, she said not to worry.
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He said vetsulin. :eek: Ok, he lost a few points with me, but I didn't feel like getting into it with him about what a crappy insulin it is...or so I've heard.
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Been there, done that, yup it's a crappy insulin.:stop:
 
Thanks everyone for looking at her blood work. I'm just at a loss as to what is affecting her. There is something, but I cannot figure it out. :banghead: Two months ago, if I sat down on the couch, she was ALL OVER ME...wanted to be on my lap or right next to me (she had to be touching me). Now, maybe she'll walk over top of me to go lay on the fluffy blankets that I have on the cushion next to me and when she lays down, she faces away from me. 100% not like her...ever. Most of the time, she just sits there and stares at nothing. I swear I've been watching her so much lately that I think she's exhibiting every sign for every disease and I feel like she's sitting in the meatloaf position 60% of the time.

Thank you, @Amy&TrixieCat for the EOS info. That makes sense that it's elevated. I've been saying for the past 2 months that her allergies have been acting up...watery eyes, itchy ears, sneezes...hers coincides with mine...horrible and it's only March. :arghh: I wish that all of these issues I'm noticing could be blamed on allergies, but I'm thinking there is something more...possibly more sinister. :( Come on Shasta...SPEEEEEAAAAKKKKK!!!!!
 
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