Rea and JayJay
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Hi there!
I joined this board just two days ago and the day after writing out an introduction of JayJay and I the poor guy had to be rushed to the vet and ended up having to stay over night so being a brand new mom of a diabetic, I wanted to get a couple of opinions if you guys wouldn't mind?
JayJay is brand newly diagnosed. We just started him on his insulin on Tuesday. He was acting a bit loopy during the day and we called the vet to come over and check him out. Nothing too much just not *right*. The vet took his bs reading and it was at 273. She decided that his 1unit of Lantis was too much and took him down to .5 until just onece a day. She gave him some meds for nausea and we were on our way!
Wednesday he did okay, seemed a bit better (Perhaps his body was starting to adjust) didn't need any anti-nausea pills, everything seemed to be alright.
Thursday morning he met me at the bedroom door purring and generally happy and very hungry for his food. The routine he and I set up was that I would get up and immediately feed him while I'm showering for work and that way once I was dressed, he would have a full tummy and I could give him his medicine.
Well by the time I got out of the shower he'd thrown up EVERYWHERE. He kept going back to his water dish and drinking more but then just throwing it up. By the end of an hour he looked like a shadow of his former self and I couldn't get a hold of my vet so I rushed him to an emergency animal hospital.
Thankfully, we were able to pick JayJay up this evening, he's grumpy but seems better. Here is what we found out and what I'm curious about. We did x-rays of his entire body and sonograms of his liver and pancreas along with bloodwork, stool samples and just about everything else we could think of.
1. Slightly enlarged liver - Emergency vet thinks this is caused by the diabetes and not Hypatic Lipadosis and that once we get the diabetes under control his liver should calm down.
2. Fluid was found in his abdomen. They went ahead and extracted some and tested it with (THANK GOODNESS) all the tests coming back okay. They think that perhaps all the prodding and poking and medicines have given him a small case of IBD and that it's nothing to worry about.
3. Pancreas enlarged with a mild inflamation - JayJay's diabetes may be caused by a case of chronic pancreaitis so this didn't surprise us and the emergency vet (and our vet!) agrees that it may well calm itself as well once we get his bs under control
4. Kidney's - slightly dialated - They think because he's been trying to regulate his own body through drinking excess water (The symptom that made me get him checked out in the first place!) his kidneys have dialated a bit and that I shouldn't worry about it, they should self correct. (His water intake has gone down to normal already!
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5. Blood in his urine - UTI - which they said was normal for a newly diagnosed cat?
So, what they said was that everything wrong is probably subset issues from the diabetes and that I should control it and they'll most likely correct themselves as well. They sent me home with a new anti-biotic for the UTI, medicine for the vomiting, anti- nausea medicine and ten cans of a wet food they want me to feed him for the time being until the IBD has calmed itself.
Tonight he seems like himself more (But not totally) - he's hungry and able to keep stuff down and this weekend (Assuming that my bank account is able to take another hit after the stress of all the vet stuff this week) I'll be getting a home testing kit so that I can monitor him day/night.
Is there anything else I should be doing? It doesn't seem fair that the poor guy has ALL this going on right now and I want to make him as comfortable as I humanly can while he's adjusting and getting so sick. It sucks because before his diagnosis and onset of treatment he wasn't sick at all visably... just drank alot of water and sure did like to eat so I'm feeling completely and absolutely guilty to the tenth degree. Anything I can do for him to make his life easier would make for a much happier me too.
Thanks for letting me vent and for any suggestions you might have for us.
(For added cute factor, here is JayJay looking awfully angry after we picked him up, but awfully adorable with the bandage around his lil leg.)
I joined this board just two days ago and the day after writing out an introduction of JayJay and I the poor guy had to be rushed to the vet and ended up having to stay over night so being a brand new mom of a diabetic, I wanted to get a couple of opinions if you guys wouldn't mind?
JayJay is brand newly diagnosed. We just started him on his insulin on Tuesday. He was acting a bit loopy during the day and we called the vet to come over and check him out. Nothing too much just not *right*. The vet took his bs reading and it was at 273. She decided that his 1unit of Lantis was too much and took him down to .5 until just onece a day. She gave him some meds for nausea and we were on our way!
Wednesday he did okay, seemed a bit better (Perhaps his body was starting to adjust) didn't need any anti-nausea pills, everything seemed to be alright.
Thursday morning he met me at the bedroom door purring and generally happy and very hungry for his food. The routine he and I set up was that I would get up and immediately feed him while I'm showering for work and that way once I was dressed, he would have a full tummy and I could give him his medicine.
Well by the time I got out of the shower he'd thrown up EVERYWHERE. He kept going back to his water dish and drinking more but then just throwing it up. By the end of an hour he looked like a shadow of his former self and I couldn't get a hold of my vet so I rushed him to an emergency animal hospital.
Thankfully, we were able to pick JayJay up this evening, he's grumpy but seems better. Here is what we found out and what I'm curious about. We did x-rays of his entire body and sonograms of his liver and pancreas along with bloodwork, stool samples and just about everything else we could think of.
1. Slightly enlarged liver - Emergency vet thinks this is caused by the diabetes and not Hypatic Lipadosis and that once we get the diabetes under control his liver should calm down.
2. Fluid was found in his abdomen. They went ahead and extracted some and tested it with (THANK GOODNESS) all the tests coming back okay. They think that perhaps all the prodding and poking and medicines have given him a small case of IBD and that it's nothing to worry about.
3. Pancreas enlarged with a mild inflamation - JayJay's diabetes may be caused by a case of chronic pancreaitis so this didn't surprise us and the emergency vet (and our vet!) agrees that it may well calm itself as well once we get his bs under control
4. Kidney's - slightly dialated - They think because he's been trying to regulate his own body through drinking excess water (The symptom that made me get him checked out in the first place!) his kidneys have dialated a bit and that I shouldn't worry about it, they should self correct. (His water intake has gone down to normal already!
)5. Blood in his urine - UTI - which they said was normal for a newly diagnosed cat?
So, what they said was that everything wrong is probably subset issues from the diabetes and that I should control it and they'll most likely correct themselves as well. They sent me home with a new anti-biotic for the UTI, medicine for the vomiting, anti- nausea medicine and ten cans of a wet food they want me to feed him for the time being until the IBD has calmed itself.
Tonight he seems like himself more (But not totally) - he's hungry and able to keep stuff down and this weekend (Assuming that my bank account is able to take another hit after the stress of all the vet stuff this week) I'll be getting a home testing kit so that I can monitor him day/night.
Is there anything else I should be doing? It doesn't seem fair that the poor guy has ALL this going on right now and I want to make him as comfortable as I humanly can while he's adjusting and getting so sick. It sucks because before his diagnosis and onset of treatment he wasn't sick at all visably... just drank alot of water and sure did like to eat so I'm feeling completely and absolutely guilty to the tenth degree. Anything I can do for him to make his life easier would make for a much happier me too.
Thanks for letting me vent and for any suggestions you might have for us.
(For added cute factor, here is JayJay looking awfully angry after we picked him up, but awfully adorable with the bandage around his lil leg.)
