Brianna & Xander
Member Since 2024
Previous post: 9/3/25
Here we are again...
Numbers have been stubbornly sucky, so yesterday AM I went with an increase. Sometimes he does well if I wait more than the 6 cycles, but looking at previous instances, there were at least more good numbers mixed in there than right now and I felt like he needed a big push. We may have gotten it (?) but I don't know for sure because - you guessed it - I can't confirm!
Every day lately I give him a dose of Mirataz (transdermal) or at some point he'll just stop eating. Yesterday I gave it to him a couple hours earlier because it's often his 5:00 meal that he refuses to eat (but is starving around 7). No difference in it aside from that.
Around 5:30ish, my partner noticed that Xander was, like, shivering. Just shaking all over. Otherwise seemed totally fine; was walking around and sociable and even playing a bit. It wasn't constant and he's a cat, so naturally every time we tried to record it, he stopped or moved. I chalked it up to excitement about my partner getting home.
Around 7:00 he started screaming for food (so I guess the earlier dose didn't help). Partner noticed that he was still/began shaking again. At that point the Libre put him in the 80s-90s, so nothing drastic, but I started to feel like maybe this screaming was a warning of a hypo and he has never been symptomatic before, so I said eff it to waiting for PS and shooting and fed him HC instead. I think he continued to shake off and on for the next maybe half hour or so, after I'd fed him again. I watched closely but don't remember seeing any shaking after that. The lowest number I saw on the Libre this whole time was 55 and it was taken off of the graph later with a low of 69. He did go up and come down a bit with each feeding, but never hypo in numbers. The last HC I gave him was at about 9, then I waited an hour before giving LC to see if he would stay up. He did, so I waited a bit longer and then gave him some overnight LC food and went to bed (really hard, I was afraid).
Obviously I couldn't confirm that he was low and the Libre was wrong, so I simply don't know. We were cursing that the whole damn time. It would be so much EASIER. I also considered serotonin syndrome, but the symptoms from that overlap pretty well with Mirataz's side effects in general. He was screaming for food (as he always does with it), his pupils were big but I don't know that it was any more than usual because he tends to have Disney eyes, and he was shaking, which was the only new thing. Lastly of course it's possible that this specific Libre is just way off. I've never had one seem to be far off (and especially not showing falsely high as opposed to falsely low) so maybe he has been having better numbers than I thought since it was replaced and thus really was hypo last night. I wish I could know for sure.
I know that repeated hypos can make future ones easier to reach/worse, so I'm wondering if maybe he's had too many asymptomatic hypos and this was the result. I just don't know.
He seems totally fine today, back to his usual (lately) self. Really freaked me out. I obviously gave a reduction this morning in case, but I was afraid to give anything and now I'm afraid to give any Mirataz (even a lower dose), but him not eating isn't an option either.
Dental is still scheduled for the 22nd, and only as of yesterday did the specialist finally give our vet a date (really not impressed with this specialist tbh) of the 24th for an ultrasound. So we've still got quite a wait until we can even see what might be going on that's making him generally not feel well and sometimes not eat. I'm not sure if I mentioned it last time or not, but I did put his labs up in the labs tab. Vet basically said they were all good (despite the urine seeming bad, which she literally didn't mention and I had to find out myself, but that may be dehydration from struggling to get him to eat consistently).
I know his high numbers may be related to whatever's going on with him, but it's hard to see them and not feel like we were finally on the right track and then everything spiraled out of control and now it's gone forever.
Here we are again...
Numbers have been stubbornly sucky, so yesterday AM I went with an increase. Sometimes he does well if I wait more than the 6 cycles, but looking at previous instances, there were at least more good numbers mixed in there than right now and I felt like he needed a big push. We may have gotten it (?) but I don't know for sure because - you guessed it - I can't confirm!
Every day lately I give him a dose of Mirataz (transdermal) or at some point he'll just stop eating. Yesterday I gave it to him a couple hours earlier because it's often his 5:00 meal that he refuses to eat (but is starving around 7). No difference in it aside from that.
Around 5:30ish, my partner noticed that Xander was, like, shivering. Just shaking all over. Otherwise seemed totally fine; was walking around and sociable and even playing a bit. It wasn't constant and he's a cat, so naturally every time we tried to record it, he stopped or moved. I chalked it up to excitement about my partner getting home.
Around 7:00 he started screaming for food (so I guess the earlier dose didn't help). Partner noticed that he was still/began shaking again. At that point the Libre put him in the 80s-90s, so nothing drastic, but I started to feel like maybe this screaming was a warning of a hypo and he has never been symptomatic before, so I said eff it to waiting for PS and shooting and fed him HC instead. I think he continued to shake off and on for the next maybe half hour or so, after I'd fed him again. I watched closely but don't remember seeing any shaking after that. The lowest number I saw on the Libre this whole time was 55 and it was taken off of the graph later with a low of 69. He did go up and come down a bit with each feeding, but never hypo in numbers. The last HC I gave him was at about 9, then I waited an hour before giving LC to see if he would stay up. He did, so I waited a bit longer and then gave him some overnight LC food and went to bed (really hard, I was afraid).
Obviously I couldn't confirm that he was low and the Libre was wrong, so I simply don't know. We were cursing that the whole damn time. It would be so much EASIER. I also considered serotonin syndrome, but the symptoms from that overlap pretty well with Mirataz's side effects in general. He was screaming for food (as he always does with it), his pupils were big but I don't know that it was any more than usual because he tends to have Disney eyes, and he was shaking, which was the only new thing. Lastly of course it's possible that this specific Libre is just way off. I've never had one seem to be far off (and especially not showing falsely high as opposed to falsely low) so maybe he has been having better numbers than I thought since it was replaced and thus really was hypo last night. I wish I could know for sure.
I know that repeated hypos can make future ones easier to reach/worse, so I'm wondering if maybe he's had too many asymptomatic hypos and this was the result. I just don't know.
He seems totally fine today, back to his usual (lately) self. Really freaked me out. I obviously gave a reduction this morning in case, but I was afraid to give anything and now I'm afraid to give any Mirataz (even a lower dose), but him not eating isn't an option either.
Dental is still scheduled for the 22nd, and only as of yesterday did the specialist finally give our vet a date (really not impressed with this specialist tbh) of the 24th for an ultrasound. So we've still got quite a wait until we can even see what might be going on that's making him generally not feel well and sometimes not eat. I'm not sure if I mentioned it last time or not, but I did put his labs up in the labs tab. Vet basically said they were all good (despite the urine seeming bad, which she literally didn't mention and I had to find out myself, but that may be dehydration from struggling to get him to eat consistently).
I know his high numbers may be related to whatever's going on with him, but it's hard to see them and not feel like we were finally on the right track and then everything spiraled out of control and now it's gone forever.
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If I don't, he may not eat tonight and I won't be able to shoot. If I do, maybe whatever happened last night will happen again.
I don't think I knew that she didn't really meow, but it somehow seems fitting with her name and her sweet little face that she'd be so quiet.
) but it seems like the most likely culprit (at least to my inexperienced eye). Definitely shakes my confidence.
, but either way it's bad with insulin. Ugh. 
