Hello all, this is my second post and first on the PZI forum.
My wife and I are new to home testing but have embraced it after our poor little guy went hypo over a week ago. During the week he was diagnosed with pancreatitis and put on steroids and antibiotics.
Before all this started Snowball was on 2 units of ProZinc twice daily. Our vet recommended dropping his dosage down to 1 unit twice daily following the hypo incident just to be safe. After testing for a few days I could really use some advice reading the numbers. Based on what I've seen, I've upped his dosage to 1.5 units twice daily, and then most recently back to 2.0 units for his last shot. His AMPS numbers seem to be climbing day over day and his PMPS numbers do as well. Today we did testing every two hours. He was fed after the first shot and was allowed to graze. Additionally we gave him a treat after each test (we haven't given him low carb treats yet, we're using pounce treats to hide his pills)
I believe the steroids are supposed to cause insulin resistance, so I wonder if that's why we're seeing the rise in his numbers.
His numbers should be available in the spreadsheet in my signature. If there is any issue getting to it, or if I should put them here, please let me know. Any suggestions as to how to interpret the numbers and dose accordingly would be greatly appreciated! Also, if anyone has experience with dosing a kitty on steroids, that'd be helpful as well. Thanks so much!
(first post w/ full background is here: viewtopic.php?f=28&t=38062)
My wife and I are new to home testing but have embraced it after our poor little guy went hypo over a week ago. During the week he was diagnosed with pancreatitis and put on steroids and antibiotics.
Before all this started Snowball was on 2 units of ProZinc twice daily. Our vet recommended dropping his dosage down to 1 unit twice daily following the hypo incident just to be safe. After testing for a few days I could really use some advice reading the numbers. Based on what I've seen, I've upped his dosage to 1.5 units twice daily, and then most recently back to 2.0 units for his last shot. His AMPS numbers seem to be climbing day over day and his PMPS numbers do as well. Today we did testing every two hours. He was fed after the first shot and was allowed to graze. Additionally we gave him a treat after each test (we haven't given him low carb treats yet, we're using pounce treats to hide his pills)
I believe the steroids are supposed to cause insulin resistance, so I wonder if that's why we're seeing the rise in his numbers.
His numbers should be available in the spreadsheet in my signature. If there is any issue getting to it, or if I should put them here, please let me know. Any suggestions as to how to interpret the numbers and dose accordingly would be greatly appreciated! Also, if anyone has experience with dosing a kitty on steroids, that'd be helpful as well. Thanks so much!
(first post w/ full background is here: viewtopic.php?f=28&t=38062)