mistymisty
Member Since 2019
Hello everyone,
Misty came home from her hospital stay today. They kept her for two days while she trialed her new insulin to monitor her BG. According to the vet she had pretty consistently high values (over 500) the whole time. The values I've taken at home have also been high, but ever since she came home she's been extremely lethargic. She had been lethargic before (which I feel is completely reasonable for an 18 year old cat with arthritis) but now it's completely different.
She's gone from being very social and (relatively) perky to almost nonresponsive. She doesn't seem particularly interested in affection which is very unusual. In addition to this her hind legs which have been affected by neuropathy seem to be even less coordinated and more weak than normal. She can still get where she needs to go but it takes her a lot longer and she's much clumsier.
One experience I could compare this to is when she had a dose of gabapentin and she just acted like she was drugged out (for lack of a better explanation). She's still eating, drinking, using her box, and lying down in her favorite places.
I want to believe this is somewhat normal because the vet cleared her to return home but I'm still very worried about this unusual behavior. Is this type of spaced out lethargy, weakness, and lack of coordination normal in the beginning while she is still getting stabalized?
I can only assume she behaved like this at the vet as well. When I picked her up, I commented that she was very spacy and looked drunk, and the tech commented that this was part of the disease. I left them a voicemail and they'll get back to me either tomorrow or Monday but I was hoping I could get a response here before then so I might have a better chance of not staying up all night with worry
Thank you all!
ETA: after finishing this up I followed Misty to her food dishes and litter box to find she could barely make it. Her left leg kept giving out on her, and her backside kept falling to the ground. She was stumbling so bad; her hind legs seemed verry weak and uncoordinated.
Misty came home from her hospital stay today. They kept her for two days while she trialed her new insulin to monitor her BG. According to the vet she had pretty consistently high values (over 500) the whole time. The values I've taken at home have also been high, but ever since she came home she's been extremely lethargic. She had been lethargic before (which I feel is completely reasonable for an 18 year old cat with arthritis) but now it's completely different.
She's gone from being very social and (relatively) perky to almost nonresponsive. She doesn't seem particularly interested in affection which is very unusual. In addition to this her hind legs which have been affected by neuropathy seem to be even less coordinated and more weak than normal. She can still get where she needs to go but it takes her a lot longer and she's much clumsier.
One experience I could compare this to is when she had a dose of gabapentin and she just acted like she was drugged out (for lack of a better explanation). She's still eating, drinking, using her box, and lying down in her favorite places.
I want to believe this is somewhat normal because the vet cleared her to return home but I'm still very worried about this unusual behavior. Is this type of spaced out lethargy, weakness, and lack of coordination normal in the beginning while she is still getting stabalized?
I can only assume she behaved like this at the vet as well. When I picked her up, I commented that she was very spacy and looked drunk, and the tech commented that this was part of the disease. I left them a voicemail and they'll get back to me either tomorrow or Monday but I was hoping I could get a response here before then so I might have a better chance of not staying up all night with worry
Thank you all!
ETA: after finishing this up I followed Misty to her food dishes and litter box to find she could barely make it. Her left leg kept giving out on her, and her backside kept falling to the ground. She was stumbling so bad; her hind legs seemed verry weak and uncoordinated.
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