suwannee79
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This is my first time posting in the PZI forum, I'm hoping maybe someone here can give some thoughts about what's going on with my little man's BG which has been visiting the 400s more than I care for despite higher insulin dosages.
Some background on my little man George: He was diagnosed in February and at the time also had Hepatic Lipidosis which required hospitalization. A few weeks after that he developed Ketoacidosis, again requiring hospitalization. We finally got him on track health-wise but the vets we were seeing kept raising his insulin dosage by whole units until he was at 5 units of PZI 2x a day. At the time we weren't checking BG at home and he eventually had 2 hypo seizures. Found this website that day and the people on the health forum said his dosage was way too high and I needed to find a different vet asap; I also began checking his BG at home after watching videos on this site. 2 days later found a cat-only clinic with knowledge about feline diabetes. They dropped him down to 1 unit PZI 2x a day and gave him a fructosamine test. The next day the test results came back and they said it looked like he was producing his own insulin and to stop giving him shots. I was thrilled...until a day later when his BG went back up so they eased him back in at .5 units 2x a day. Since then we've pretty much had to go up .5 units almost every week and are now at 2 units 2x a day.
He's been in the 400s quite a bit lately, I did a curve on Saturday and he went from the 400s to the 200s and back up to the 400s. I feel like even though we keep raising the insulin amount his numbers almost look worse. I've been checking for ketones in his urine and we seem to be ok there but I just don't know what to make of his numbers. I thought someone on the health board said at one point that if a cat is making it's own insulin and you give it more that can mess up their numbers, but I might have misunderstood, is that even a thing and if so could it be a possibility here?
His diet is primarily BFF canned food. He was a dry food junkie until a little over a month ago, I've tried feeding him Wellness, EVO, Fancy Feast and Newman's Own wet foods but BFF is the only one he will eat. I still have Purina DM dry around from before BFF and every now and then if he's being picky or I run out of wet food for a day I'll give him the DM, but he's mainly on BFF.
Oh and one last fun fact - his poop has been from the depths of hell lately. Loose and eye wateringly smelly. It started getting bad about 2 weeks ago and is just straight up disgusting now. I don't know if it's the change in diet from dry to wet? He's on his third day of Metronizadole pills to try and firm the stool back up *fingers majorly crossed* :roll:
Any thoughts or advice would be MUCH appreciated!! Thanks!
Some background on my little man George: He was diagnosed in February and at the time also had Hepatic Lipidosis which required hospitalization. A few weeks after that he developed Ketoacidosis, again requiring hospitalization. We finally got him on track health-wise but the vets we were seeing kept raising his insulin dosage by whole units until he was at 5 units of PZI 2x a day. At the time we weren't checking BG at home and he eventually had 2 hypo seizures. Found this website that day and the people on the health forum said his dosage was way too high and I needed to find a different vet asap; I also began checking his BG at home after watching videos on this site. 2 days later found a cat-only clinic with knowledge about feline diabetes. They dropped him down to 1 unit PZI 2x a day and gave him a fructosamine test. The next day the test results came back and they said it looked like he was producing his own insulin and to stop giving him shots. I was thrilled...until a day later when his BG went back up so they eased him back in at .5 units 2x a day. Since then we've pretty much had to go up .5 units almost every week and are now at 2 units 2x a day.
He's been in the 400s quite a bit lately, I did a curve on Saturday and he went from the 400s to the 200s and back up to the 400s. I feel like even though we keep raising the insulin amount his numbers almost look worse. I've been checking for ketones in his urine and we seem to be ok there but I just don't know what to make of his numbers. I thought someone on the health board said at one point that if a cat is making it's own insulin and you give it more that can mess up their numbers, but I might have misunderstood, is that even a thing and if so could it be a possibility here?
His diet is primarily BFF canned food. He was a dry food junkie until a little over a month ago, I've tried feeding him Wellness, EVO, Fancy Feast and Newman's Own wet foods but BFF is the only one he will eat. I still have Purina DM dry around from before BFF and every now and then if he's being picky or I run out of wet food for a day I'll give him the DM, but he's mainly on BFF.
Oh and one last fun fact - his poop has been from the depths of hell lately. Loose and eye wateringly smelly. It started getting bad about 2 weeks ago and is just straight up disgusting now. I don't know if it's the change in diet from dry to wet? He's on his third day of Metronizadole pills to try and firm the stool back up *fingers majorly crossed* :roll:
Any thoughts or advice would be MUCH appreciated!! Thanks!
