kxk34
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UPDATED (2/14): This thread was initially created when Fuzzy was having a few days of inappetence after an outlier day where her BG dropped suddenly very quickly. The issues with appetite/eating described below have since resolved. Fuzzy's appetite returned to normal on Friday and the past few days have been good for her 
After her big BG drop on Tuesday the vet said she got pretty bad diarrhea at the office (my guess is it might have been from the stress/syrup because she is sensitive to anything new) and when she's had liquid diarrhea in the past it's taken her 1-2 days to bounce back to normal so it looks like (hopefully) that is all that happened in this case. She also had blood work checked at her appointment last Thursday and there were no immediately concerning changes to any abnormalities
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This is going to be a pretty long post and I apologize for that, but I'm getting really worried about Fuzzy and I'm not sure how to proceed and am just in general very sad and scared that we're nearing the end if this continues...
Yesterday morning Fuzzy had a noticeably smaller appetite than usual, but was still excited to eat breakfast and did not act too finicky with her food. She did not each much after her insulin shot and as I posted here yesterday her BG dropped very fast and to a much lower level than we've previously seen. We suspect that it might be because she did not eat enough beforehand given the reduced appetite, but are not entirely sure if that was the only factor or what. We took her to the vet after giving her some syrup because she dropped from 89 to 76 within 15-20 minutes and we were scared of her dropping further and becoming hypoglycemic. When they tested her at the vet she had a value of 112 which they attributed to the syrup beginning to kick in. They said we could bring her home or she could stay there for the day and they could administer glucose if she dropped again and needed stabilizing. At the time, we thought it seemed like the safer move to leave her there but now I'm not so sure. She arrived there between +3.5 and +4 and left sometime shortly after +8 and looking at the readings they took there, it looks like her BG levels increased throughout the afternoon even as she would usually be reaching nadir which seems most likely was due to stress of being there since they said they were unable to get her to eat while she was there.
When she got home from the vet a little after 3 PM she immediately seemed very hungry and ate a good amount, but mostly wanted her dry food which is a bit unusual. She seemed pretty worn out from the day at the vet and fell asleep a while after that and when we woke her to up to try to get her to eat she was not really feeling it and we did not want to risk another episode like what happened in the morning so we did not give her the PM dose of insulin. We did test her a couple times during the night just to check how she was doing and she was in the 300-399 range both times.
This morning her AMPS was 323 which is the lowest we've seen from her (her AMPS has been all over the place so this was not a crazy outlier or anything like that, it just happens to be the lowest it's been). Unfortunately, her appetite was even worse than yesterday. She seems to be refusing her wet food entirely and is only interested in the dry food. We were able to get her to eat a little less than 1/4 of a cup of dry food and did not feel comfortable giving her the morning dose of insulin because of her strange inappetence and lower AMPS given what had happened the day before. We kept trying to encourage food all morning thinking we could always shift the cycle times if need be, but she just kind of nibbled here and there. The only point during the day that she ate a good amount and seemed to have a more normal approach to her food was directly after we gave her subQ fluids around 11:30 am ET. Tonight she is similarly refusing her dinner. All day she has acted really turned off by the wet food. We even tried offering her Fancy Feast and baby food like she used to get before we had to switch her to hydrolyzed food for IBD and even that stuff did not tempt her. She would normally get her insulin around now, but she's currently not eaten enough or acting interested in eating enough that it seems like we'll be able to follow through on that (at least not on time anyways, unclear how the night will progress).
We're getting really scared about where this is headed and we're not sure what could have sparked this downturn since the lessened appetite seemed to start before the incident yesterday. I am scared what happened yesterday might have been stressful enough that her IBD is causing problems, but I don't know how to make it better. She had cerenia both yesterday and today. The odd thing is usually she eats a good bit of food then wants to go snuggle in the living room on the couch, but today sat in the kitchen a lot like she usually does when we've picked up her food during the pre-PMPS period when she gets fussy about wanting to eat. There were a few times when I took her from the kitchen to hang out with me in the living room and she went back to sit by where she usually gets her food, but every time she did not eat more than a bite or two when we tried to encourage her.
This is really scary because this is exactly how she behaved all throughout the fall as we were trying to figure out what was wrong with her appetite and had not yet diagnosed her IBD (this period ultimately led to that diagnosis). There were so many weeks that were just like today where she would just sit in the kitchen by where she gets her food, but not eat more than a bite or so at most when encouraged. During this period she was getting cerenia daily in addition to mirataz near-daily. The mirataz most of the time just seemed to make her kind of manic and restless, but did not do much to help get her to eat at all. Weirdly, she randomly started eating normally without the mirataz/cerenia after a day at the vet where she had been in for some fasted blood work and then her appetite improved a great deal when we started giving her the hydrolyzed food, with exception of a 2-3 day period during the transition to it where she had bad diarrhea and seemed to feel very sick. The notes from the vet yesterday did say that she had diarrhea there, but it is unclear whether that was the sort of diarrhea-type stool we see regularly since starting her on the hydrolyzed food or if this was worse than that (possibly from the syrup). If it was the latter type it seems possible that could be what's going on to make her appetite worse if she's still not feeling well, but we don't know.
We've tested her urine with ketone strips twice today – both negative for ketones. We've also checked her BG several times – all were in the pink/red. Is there anything else we need to be checking or doing to ensure that she is safe while unable to give her insulin and only getting her to eat a few bites of food here and there? I'd also be curious if anyone has any theories as to what could be going on with her.
After her big BG drop on Tuesday the vet said she got pretty bad diarrhea at the office (my guess is it might have been from the stress/syrup because she is sensitive to anything new) and when she's had liquid diarrhea in the past it's taken her 1-2 days to bounce back to normal so it looks like (hopefully) that is all that happened in this case. She also had blood work checked at her appointment last Thursday and there were no immediately concerning changes to any abnormalities
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This is going to be a pretty long post and I apologize for that, but I'm getting really worried about Fuzzy and I'm not sure how to proceed and am just in general very sad and scared that we're nearing the end if this continues...
Yesterday morning Fuzzy had a noticeably smaller appetite than usual, but was still excited to eat breakfast and did not act too finicky with her food. She did not each much after her insulin shot and as I posted here yesterday her BG dropped very fast and to a much lower level than we've previously seen. We suspect that it might be because she did not eat enough beforehand given the reduced appetite, but are not entirely sure if that was the only factor or what. We took her to the vet after giving her some syrup because she dropped from 89 to 76 within 15-20 minutes and we were scared of her dropping further and becoming hypoglycemic. When they tested her at the vet she had a value of 112 which they attributed to the syrup beginning to kick in. They said we could bring her home or she could stay there for the day and they could administer glucose if she dropped again and needed stabilizing. At the time, we thought it seemed like the safer move to leave her there but now I'm not so sure. She arrived there between +3.5 and +4 and left sometime shortly after +8 and looking at the readings they took there, it looks like her BG levels increased throughout the afternoon even as she would usually be reaching nadir which seems most likely was due to stress of being there since they said they were unable to get her to eat while she was there.
When she got home from the vet a little after 3 PM she immediately seemed very hungry and ate a good amount, but mostly wanted her dry food which is a bit unusual. She seemed pretty worn out from the day at the vet and fell asleep a while after that and when we woke her to up to try to get her to eat she was not really feeling it and we did not want to risk another episode like what happened in the morning so we did not give her the PM dose of insulin. We did test her a couple times during the night just to check how she was doing and she was in the 300-399 range both times.
This morning her AMPS was 323 which is the lowest we've seen from her (her AMPS has been all over the place so this was not a crazy outlier or anything like that, it just happens to be the lowest it's been). Unfortunately, her appetite was even worse than yesterday. She seems to be refusing her wet food entirely and is only interested in the dry food. We were able to get her to eat a little less than 1/4 of a cup of dry food and did not feel comfortable giving her the morning dose of insulin because of her strange inappetence and lower AMPS given what had happened the day before. We kept trying to encourage food all morning thinking we could always shift the cycle times if need be, but she just kind of nibbled here and there. The only point during the day that she ate a good amount and seemed to have a more normal approach to her food was directly after we gave her subQ fluids around 11:30 am ET. Tonight she is similarly refusing her dinner. All day she has acted really turned off by the wet food. We even tried offering her Fancy Feast and baby food like she used to get before we had to switch her to hydrolyzed food for IBD and even that stuff did not tempt her. She would normally get her insulin around now, but she's currently not eaten enough or acting interested in eating enough that it seems like we'll be able to follow through on that (at least not on time anyways, unclear how the night will progress).
We're getting really scared about where this is headed and we're not sure what could have sparked this downturn since the lessened appetite seemed to start before the incident yesterday. I am scared what happened yesterday might have been stressful enough that her IBD is causing problems, but I don't know how to make it better. She had cerenia both yesterday and today. The odd thing is usually she eats a good bit of food then wants to go snuggle in the living room on the couch, but today sat in the kitchen a lot like she usually does when we've picked up her food during the pre-PMPS period when she gets fussy about wanting to eat. There were a few times when I took her from the kitchen to hang out with me in the living room and she went back to sit by where she usually gets her food, but every time she did not eat more than a bite or two when we tried to encourage her.
This is really scary because this is exactly how she behaved all throughout the fall as we were trying to figure out what was wrong with her appetite and had not yet diagnosed her IBD (this period ultimately led to that diagnosis). There were so many weeks that were just like today where she would just sit in the kitchen by where she gets her food, but not eat more than a bite or so at most when encouraged. During this period she was getting cerenia daily in addition to mirataz near-daily. The mirataz most of the time just seemed to make her kind of manic and restless, but did not do much to help get her to eat at all. Weirdly, she randomly started eating normally without the mirataz/cerenia after a day at the vet where she had been in for some fasted blood work and then her appetite improved a great deal when we started giving her the hydrolyzed food, with exception of a 2-3 day period during the transition to it where she had bad diarrhea and seemed to feel very sick. The notes from the vet yesterday did say that she had diarrhea there, but it is unclear whether that was the sort of diarrhea-type stool we see regularly since starting her on the hydrolyzed food or if this was worse than that (possibly from the syrup). If it was the latter type it seems possible that could be what's going on to make her appetite worse if she's still not feeling well, but we don't know.
We've tested her urine with ketone strips twice today – both negative for ketones. We've also checked her BG several times – all were in the pink/red. Is there anything else we need to be checking or doing to ensure that she is safe while unable to give her insulin and only getting her to eat a few bites of food here and there? I'd also be curious if anyone has any theories as to what could be going on with her.
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