Cape, when healthy, eats very well and takes just about 1 unit of Lantus every 12 hours to keep her in the 90-120 range. She's 11 or 12 years old.
Cape went to the hospital on 9/10 because she was a little lethargic and wasn't interested in eating. The ride to the hospital was about an hour and fifteen minutes and she traveled incredibly poorly. She was hyperventilating and open mouth breathing and eventually was just laying on her side in the carrier nonresponsive.
Once at the hospital they found ketones and couldn't get her blood sugar under 500, her kidney values were off and so were her electrolytes. They took her off her Lantus and used fast-acting insulin to try to manage her as well as giving her antibiotics and fluids. She just laid in the hospital and was pretty catatonic for the first 72 hours. On 10/13 she started looking brighter and her sugar was around 400. They put her back on her Lantus and did additional insulin and she started to eat overnight into 10/14. On 10/14 her ultrasound showed no signs of kidney disease and the doctor thinks that she had damage either from dehydration or physical injury and she needed to rest at home. She was eating normally and her blood sugar was down in the 200's.
I asked for her to be sedated when we discharged her on the evening of 10/14. No word was given to the doctor and when asked when we arrived we were only given one 50mg capsule of gabapentin that we had to empty about half in her mouth. Her Lantus shot was already an hour late when we got her. She was already upset in the car and it went downhill from there. Getting her home took hours trying our best to keep her calm and she was catatonic again and unresponsive. Her sugar was HI yesterday and she felt awful and I shot with 2 units. Repeated tests only gave results of 540/570/550 which is within the error range of not getting away from HI. We're syringe feeding her but she's drinking and we're doing 30ml of SubQ fluids every 12 hours.
Overnight she was more active walking around but shaky and weak. Today she was 530 when we started our day and then 488 before her Lantus and after some syringed food and Lantus she's 530 one hour afterward. I wanted to check to make sure she's not dropping too fast. I need to check her sugar in a half hour and that will be 2 hours since her Lantus shot. Her breathing is still a bit faster than normal but I think we're dealing with a mixture of her already not feeling great plus the trauma of traveling. I was told that before she was discharged she was eating well and walking around.
Thank you for any help.
Here's Cape's newest data. I don't have much, just from when she was at home. The week before the hospital she crept up from 90-120 to about 120-140 but I figured she was fighting off the virus in the house. When she was 239 on 10/11 I knew something was wrong.
NEW CHART, VERY LITTLE
EDIT: She was at 488 one hour after her Lantus
EDIT: She was at 377 two hours after her Lantus
EDIT: She is at 480 three hours since her Lantus
Cape went to the hospital on 9/10 because she was a little lethargic and wasn't interested in eating. The ride to the hospital was about an hour and fifteen minutes and she traveled incredibly poorly. She was hyperventilating and open mouth breathing and eventually was just laying on her side in the carrier nonresponsive.
Once at the hospital they found ketones and couldn't get her blood sugar under 500, her kidney values were off and so were her electrolytes. They took her off her Lantus and used fast-acting insulin to try to manage her as well as giving her antibiotics and fluids. She just laid in the hospital and was pretty catatonic for the first 72 hours. On 10/13 she started looking brighter and her sugar was around 400. They put her back on her Lantus and did additional insulin and she started to eat overnight into 10/14. On 10/14 her ultrasound showed no signs of kidney disease and the doctor thinks that she had damage either from dehydration or physical injury and she needed to rest at home. She was eating normally and her blood sugar was down in the 200's.
I asked for her to be sedated when we discharged her on the evening of 10/14. No word was given to the doctor and when asked when we arrived we were only given one 50mg capsule of gabapentin that we had to empty about half in her mouth. Her Lantus shot was already an hour late when we got her. She was already upset in the car and it went downhill from there. Getting her home took hours trying our best to keep her calm and she was catatonic again and unresponsive. Her sugar was HI yesterday and she felt awful and I shot with 2 units. Repeated tests only gave results of 540/570/550 which is within the error range of not getting away from HI. We're syringe feeding her but she's drinking and we're doing 30ml of SubQ fluids every 12 hours.
Overnight she was more active walking around but shaky and weak. Today she was 530 when we started our day and then 488 before her Lantus and after some syringed food and Lantus she's 530 one hour afterward. I wanted to check to make sure she's not dropping too fast. I need to check her sugar in a half hour and that will be 2 hours since her Lantus shot. Her breathing is still a bit faster than normal but I think we're dealing with a mixture of her already not feeling great plus the trauma of traveling. I was told that before she was discharged she was eating well and walking around.
Thank you for any help.
Here's Cape's newest data. I don't have much, just from when she was at home. The week before the hospital she crept up from 90-120 to about 120-140 but I figured she was fighting off the virus in the house. When she was 239 on 10/11 I knew something was wrong.
NEW CHART, VERY LITTLE
EDIT: She was at 488 one hour after her Lantus
EDIT: She was at 377 two hours after her Lantus
EDIT: She is at 480 three hours since her Lantus
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