furballsmom
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Furball (or Furble) : Spayed female; born April, 1995, so will be 16 in April, 2011.
Diagnosed with FD in April, 2009.
Started on Vetsulin for 8 months; then ProZinc for about 4 months.
Switched to BCP-PZI about a year ago, starting with U-40 but now using U-100.
Have done more or less TR for the last year or so, as much as possible.
Current weight: about 10 lbs – never very overweight, but maybe a pound or so more than ideal weight.
Before diagnosis and while on Vetsulin, she spent a year weighing less than 8 lbs – very thin and frail.
Improved dramatically after starting ProZinc, but had extreme BG spikes. Better since using PZI, but still very erratic.
Using BCP-PZI, U-100; AccuChek Aviva meter; 3/10cc, 29gx1/2" syringes; Abbott Freestyle lancing device.
Feeding mix of raw (scalded) chicken thighs, about 1/4 with skin, ground with bone in, with Fancy Feast classic chicken or turkey & giblets or kitten turkey.
Hello again. And thanks again to Dyana, Sue, and Patrick (hope I have the names right!) for helping me get the spreadsheet in our signature line.
As mentioned above, we've been doing TR as much as possible, which has stretched out to +10s recently. Our major dilemma is that even tho' I've reduced her doses slightly a couple times recently, she still goes way low sometimes (like 39 this afternoon) and then rebounds, with highs in upper 300s or 400s. Also the +10s inevitably need some overnite doses and it's getting harder if not impossible to continue the overnites.
I'm going to start entering her numbers in the spreadsheet and hope that seeing the picture there, some clues or better ideas of what to do will emerge there.
Thanks. Rhea
p.s. Just discovered that the spreadsheet here will not accept entries. Will have to figure this out later. Bummer. It does say "copy of template" so maybe this is something different. Or maybe I have to do something more than just click on a block.
Diagnosed with FD in April, 2009.
Started on Vetsulin for 8 months; then ProZinc for about 4 months.
Switched to BCP-PZI about a year ago, starting with U-40 but now using U-100.
Have done more or less TR for the last year or so, as much as possible.
Current weight: about 10 lbs – never very overweight, but maybe a pound or so more than ideal weight.
Before diagnosis and while on Vetsulin, she spent a year weighing less than 8 lbs – very thin and frail.
Improved dramatically after starting ProZinc, but had extreme BG spikes. Better since using PZI, but still very erratic.
Using BCP-PZI, U-100; AccuChek Aviva meter; 3/10cc, 29gx1/2" syringes; Abbott Freestyle lancing device.
Feeding mix of raw (scalded) chicken thighs, about 1/4 with skin, ground with bone in, with Fancy Feast classic chicken or turkey & giblets or kitten turkey.
Hello again. And thanks again to Dyana, Sue, and Patrick (hope I have the names right!) for helping me get the spreadsheet in our signature line.
As mentioned above, we've been doing TR as much as possible, which has stretched out to +10s recently. Our major dilemma is that even tho' I've reduced her doses slightly a couple times recently, she still goes way low sometimes (like 39 this afternoon) and then rebounds, with highs in upper 300s or 400s. Also the +10s inevitably need some overnite doses and it's getting harder if not impossible to continue the overnites.
I'm going to start entering her numbers in the spreadsheet and hope that seeing the picture there, some clues or better ideas of what to do will emerge there.
Thanks. Rhea
p.s. Just discovered that the spreadsheet here will not accept entries. Will have to figure this out later. Bummer. It does say "copy of template" so maybe this is something different. Or maybe I have to do something more than just click on a block.
