? Help again dosing advice and new condition

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Heather & Hwy 99

Heather & Hwy 99

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still hoping to have someone advise on dosing and if I am doing things right, soooo many changes in last 3 weeks as well as sudden development of feline hyperesthesia ("twitchy cat, skin crawling syndrome") TWO seperate questions/concerns but I suspect they are inter related and to recap I have my own health issues that affect cognitive abilities making all this information difficult to process/retain, as well as new concerns/issues/changes keep arising- I am currently trying to sort thru insulin specific posts and food ingredients hoping to gain some insight also but really hoping for you alls advice!
previous thread: http://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/...vising-scheduling-dosing.230576/#post-2581543
 
hi again, checking in again for advice after a stressful few days and apparent development of feline hyperesthesia, we went to the urgent care a 3 days ago after I thought a bee must have flown in the house and bit him based on his twitching skin, screaming, hiding under bed...but after hours of observation, allergy injection etc. he came home and proceeded to have another episode and basically its like his rear end has got a mind of its own and its scaring him immensely so I am having a very hard time getting him to come out from under bed, let alone test him but I am atleast the twice a day and he is consistently running very low, like hypo numbers (I am still using alpha trak 2 because the relion kept giving me error messages and I couldnt trust it), I cant get him to eat more than a few treats or come out from under bed to re-test this morning, and the vet is absolutely no help so I am trying to figure out why the low numbers and further investigate the possible root cause of hyperesthesia...Im going to write a separate post on that as I am concerned its related to diabetes/neuropathy but am really concerned about his continued low numbers-at this point he has only had ONE .5 and ONE .25 dose in the last week due to his numbers, he is still getting aprox 15% hills dry w/d daily but mostly fancy feast and wouldnt eat the higher carb canned food this morning I left out after getting the 65
P.S. at the urgent clinic I did ask them to check his ketones and they said he had none, and no glucose in his urine (yay!) but gave me no advice on current dosing or possibilities as to why hyperestesia and were in fact upset that I wasnt following their recommendations of 2 units twice a day!
 
First, the numbers you are seeing are in the normal blood glucose range (approx. 68 - 140 on an Alpha Track). They are not in the range where I would be worried about hypoglycemia unless you are seeing symptoms. You skipped Hwy 99's shots for almost 4 full days and the numbers have been gorgeous! As long as you keep seeing numbers in the normal range, I wouldn't worry.

This is an article on feline hyperesthesia. This is another article from Cornell's Feline Health Center on the topic. They make some suggestions about medications depending on whether the problem is related to over-grooming or if other problems develop.
 
Sienne and Gabby (GA) said:
First, the numbers you are seeing are in the normal blood glucose range (approx. 68 - 140 on an Alpha Track). They are not in the range where I would be worried about hypoglycemia unless you are seeing symptoms. You skipped Hwy 99's shots for almost 4 full days and the numbers have been gorgeous! As long as you keep seeing numbers in the normal range, I wouldn't worry.

This is an article on feline hyperesthesia. This is another article from Cornell's Feline Health Center on the topic. They make some suggestions about medications depending on whether the problem is related to over-grooming or if other problems develop.
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Thank you so much! I really appreciate the shortcuts and abbreviated info and am relieved those numbers arent concerning, this whole situation is so confusing and concerning to me and the sudden onset of the hyperstesthia leaves basically only two possibilities of being triggered by his Lantus, OR fancy feast so my hopes for consistency/stability in his routine keep having to be adapted...anyways so appreciative-thank you!:bighug:
 
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