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Rose, can you feed Fluffy a little earlier and make sure he keeps it down and then shoot an hour later? Did you ever get any Pepcid A/C into him?
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Susie and Moochie
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Hi Rose. I'm so glad that you and Fluff came through this today.
The first thing I would like to do is publicly apologize for my part in the ugliness on the other thread. I hope you will accept that because no part of it was intended to hurt you.
Now, I will put my .02 in about what I "think" you should consider about dosing once the inevitable rebound from this passes and then I will take myself off.
What I believe has happened is that you were started by your vet with a good dose for the time you were still feeding dry food. I believe that when you switched Fluff to all wet food the dose should have been lowered. You had no way of knowing that so please do not take this as a criticism. Hey, I came very close to doing the same thing four years ago with Moochie. I was trying (unsuccessfuly, I might add) to get her to eat canned food. I shot her before work in the morning because she had actually taken a few bites of the food and I was in a hurry. I left for a client's office. Thankfully I stopped back at home before going back to my office because Moochie was well on her way to a hypo. It was averted but only because I got lucky. I too was very new and didn't realize what could happen.
Anyway, I believe that when you switched Fluff to wet and continued to shoot the same dose he started to "rebound" and when your vet saw the BGs he/she did not understand what was happening and told you to raise the dose. All of this is not to criticize you or your vet. It's simply to state what I believe happened so that it doesn't happen again.
A lot of info on this site says to "watch the BGs when you switch the food to wet" and IMHO it should say that you should cut the dose down before switching completely because of this very possibility.
Anyway, for what it's worth this is my opinion.
Again, please accept my sincere apology for causing your already stressful day to become worse. It shouldn't have happened.
Anyway, I digress. Again, I am very glad that you got the help you did today and made it through.
The first thing I would like to do is publicly apologize for my part in the ugliness on the other thread. I hope you will accept that because no part of it was intended to hurt you.
Now, I will put my .02 in about what I "think" you should consider about dosing once the inevitable rebound from this passes and then I will take myself off.
What I believe has happened is that you were started by your vet with a good dose for the time you were still feeding dry food. I believe that when you switched Fluff to all wet food the dose should have been lowered. You had no way of knowing that so please do not take this as a criticism. Hey, I came very close to doing the same thing four years ago with Moochie. I was trying (unsuccessfuly, I might add) to get her to eat canned food. I shot her before work in the morning because she had actually taken a few bites of the food and I was in a hurry. I left for a client's office. Thankfully I stopped back at home before going back to my office because Moochie was well on her way to a hypo. It was averted but only because I got lucky. I too was very new and didn't realize what could happen.
Anyway, I believe that when you switched Fluff to wet and continued to shoot the same dose he started to "rebound" and when your vet saw the BGs he/she did not understand what was happening and told you to raise the dose. All of this is not to criticize you or your vet. It's simply to state what I believe happened so that it doesn't happen again.
A lot of info on this site says to "watch the BGs when you switch the food to wet" and IMHO it should say that you should cut the dose down before switching completely because of this very possibility.
Anyway, for what it's worth this is my opinion.
Again, please accept my sincere apology for causing your already stressful day to become worse. It shouldn't have happened.
Anyway, I digress. Again, I am very glad that you got the help you did today and made it through.
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Rose cat's tend to be hypersensitive to insulin after a day like this...so be on the safe side. shoot low. .5U
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eta...sorry i wrote the wrong name....
(((((Ruth)))))
eta...sorry i wrote the wrong name....
Susie and Moochie
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lori and tom said:
most are - after a day like this but thx for the info
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ummm, your welcome susie? glad i could help you out.
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