Different BG numbers, not feeling well

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SaraMV

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I just took Taz's reading. The first one he flicked his ear and wiped the blood onto my clean finger, so I used that blood for the reading. It was 644! We immediately took his reading again to get the blood from his ear and it was 214. At this point, I needed a third test to see which one was accurate. The third strip, also from his ear, was 189. So I'm beyond relieved that his number wasn't in the 600s, but I'm unsure of which reading to put for his preshot number...214 or 189? They were taken about a minute apart from each other.
 
I'm sorry. I didn't know this question should have been posted in the Lantus forum since it didn't deal with insulin.
 
Meter variance is 20%. So 214 and 189 are not much different. The 619 was either due to not enough blood or a bad strip. So if you want put both in the box. It’s fine to ask this in your condo on the lantus forum.
 
tiffmaxee said:
Meter variance is 20%. So 214 and 189 are not much different. The 619 was either due to not enough blood or a bad strip. So if you want put both in the box. It’s fine to ask this in your condo on the lantus forum.
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I have another question. He has been acting off lately. Like he still doesn't feel good from the pancreatitis. I don't know if it's the cysts on his pancreas, or if there's something else wrong, but he'll act like he's uncomfortable and we'll give him bupe. Then he'll be good for a day, and then right back to not feeling well. How do I know if his pancreatitis is coming back, and how would I treat it before it flares up?
 
If the bupe helps I would give it for more than a day. How’s his appetite? Energy? Unfortunately chronic pancreatitis often means it comes and goes. Some say their cat just isn’t acting quite right. You treat the symptoms immediately when they surface. For Max the first sign was inappetence. I would start medication which for him was ondansetron at the first sign he wasn’t eating as much. I would wait for him to act normal for several days or even a week before slowly cutting back. It’s really trial and error.
 
tiffmaxee said:
If the bupe helps I would give it for more than a day. How’s his appetite? Energy? Unfortunately chronic pancreatitis often means it comes and goes. Some say their cat just isn’t acting quite right. You treat the symptoms immediately when they surface. For Max the first sign was inappetence. I would start medication which for him was ondansetron at the first sign he wasn’t eating as much. I would wait for him to act normal for several days or even a week before slowly cutting back. It’s really trial and error.
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That's how he's acting. Like he really wants to eat, but he'll walk away from the bowl after a few bites. He's alert but not very active, and acts like he's uncomfortable. The bupe says to give 2.5 but we're only giving him 2.0 because my vet seemed very hesitant to give it to us and im trying to stretch it out a bit until we see him again and I can tell him we're struggling. The cerenia doesn't seem like it's helping, so I'm definately going to request the ondansetron again. Is there a reason that's the anti nausea med of choice? My vet didn't want to give bupe until I told him that gabapentin filters through the kidneys and bupe doesn't. I stressed that we're trying to save his kidneys, so the vet went ahead and gave us a prescription for it.
 
Ondansetron works really well for nausea. Cerenia seems to work too but more for vomiting. If you read the articles in the pancreatitis handbook you will see those two meds are used the most.
 
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