Misterbeesmom
Member Since 2016
well I spoke too soon. newest lab results show mr b's pancreas levels are up again, already.
the liver enzymes have been up for a while now, and his BG has been all over the place. his RBC is down but still in normal range. he had that bruising but now they're thinking it was a tough draw, bad draw, whatever, plus he was dehydrated. his clotting #'s came back good. vet did a draw on leg and there was no bruising.
we're going to do that blood test for acromegaly, though its not completely accurate.
she's doing a U/S on him today. its been 6 months since last one.
he's been in hospital for 3 days. I should be able to pick him up today, depending on the u/s.
he's got so much going on that its hard to know exactly what is making him feel so poorly. maybe its everything. what the vet and I both touched on was this possibility that there is something that has gone undiagnosed, and I told her its been a big fear of mine that all this time we've been missing something. last September he was vaguely not himself, and yet when we ran tests at that time, all looked fine. two months later he went in for his teeth cleaning and his BG was in the 500's and he had pancreatitis.
ANYWAYS my big question is, has anyone here used atopica or another immune-suppressing drug on their diabetic kitty? we're thinking about doing that to see if it will give his pancreas/liver a break, if indeed it is his body attacking his body. obviously we will not be doing steroids.
thoughts?
this is so frustrating.
the liver enzymes have been up for a while now, and his BG has been all over the place. his RBC is down but still in normal range. he had that bruising but now they're thinking it was a tough draw, bad draw, whatever, plus he was dehydrated. his clotting #'s came back good. vet did a draw on leg and there was no bruising.
we're going to do that blood test for acromegaly, though its not completely accurate.
she's doing a U/S on him today. its been 6 months since last one.
he's been in hospital for 3 days. I should be able to pick him up today, depending on the u/s.
he's got so much going on that its hard to know exactly what is making him feel so poorly. maybe its everything. what the vet and I both touched on was this possibility that there is something that has gone undiagnosed, and I told her its been a big fear of mine that all this time we've been missing something. last September he was vaguely not himself, and yet when we ran tests at that time, all looked fine. two months later he went in for his teeth cleaning and his BG was in the 500's and he had pancreatitis.
ANYWAYS my big question is, has anyone here used atopica or another immune-suppressing drug on their diabetic kitty? we're thinking about doing that to see if it will give his pancreas/liver a break, if indeed it is his body attacking his body. obviously we will not be doing steroids.
thoughts?
this is so frustrating.
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