Chris Ca
Member Since 2019
Hi!
Been lurking a few days figuring things out, but wanted to post a hello and general intro.
During the last week of August and into early Sept, Max started getting rather picky about his food, and eventually was refusing all of it. Tried all kinds of different foods, etc. He was primarily eating GO! canned chicken stew - approx 17% carbs as fed. Not much luck with other foods. We started to notice some significant weight loss, and frequent large urination in his box. With the knowledge we have now, he was clearly headed down the DKA path.
He went to his (old) vet on Sept 9, they took blood for labs and also xrays, trying to get an idea of what might be wrong. Fructosamine was part of these labs. We were called back to the vet on Sept 13, where the initial tentative dx for diabetes was made. Lantus was provided, along with training and a variety of prescription diabetes diet wet cans. At this appointment they also took urine and additional blood for testing. The vet was somewhat unconvinced that it was diabetes for sure.
That evening, Max was very much not himself. Staring off into space, still refusing to eat, etc. I had only just started reading into this forum and other resources online, so everything was still very new and information overload! We were not particularily happy with the dx we had received and my partner and I had been discussing getting a second opinion and just eating the cost of additional lab work.
Sept 14 morning, Max had still not eaten anything. We called our other vet at 8am (they regularly see our pooch) and they got us in for an appointment an hour later. We headed over, the new vet was very thorough with his initial diagnosis. Looking for other things that may be wrong, etc. He took max into the back to collect urine and do a BG test. He came back to us within 3 minutes VERY concerned. Max's ketones were very high on a test strip (sorry, dont have the exact number). Max was immediately hospitalized with them for DKA treatment.
He responded well throughout his time at the hospital. We received frequent updates on how he was doing. Ultimately he stayed with them for 3 days. We picked him up Monday afternoon (Sep 16).
Since he's been home, he's been getting 1U AM and 0.5U PM of Lantus. Food wise, he's been pretty uninterested in the MD pate and prefers the dry. He will eat his full portions of the dry across an 8 hour window or so, and we provide food every 12 hours, a little before his insulin shot.
I started measuring regularly in the last 2 days, based on my reading here
SS is in signature below.
If anyone has tips on ideas to get him to eat his darn pate, I'd love to hear them! I will be picking up some FF today on my way home from work. Ironically, when we first adopted Max we fed him FF pate exclusively!
Been lurking a few days figuring things out, but wanted to post a hello and general intro.
During the last week of August and into early Sept, Max started getting rather picky about his food, and eventually was refusing all of it. Tried all kinds of different foods, etc. He was primarily eating GO! canned chicken stew - approx 17% carbs as fed. Not much luck with other foods. We started to notice some significant weight loss, and frequent large urination in his box. With the knowledge we have now, he was clearly headed down the DKA path.
He went to his (old) vet on Sept 9, they took blood for labs and also xrays, trying to get an idea of what might be wrong. Fructosamine was part of these labs. We were called back to the vet on Sept 13, where the initial tentative dx for diabetes was made. Lantus was provided, along with training and a variety of prescription diabetes diet wet cans. At this appointment they also took urine and additional blood for testing. The vet was somewhat unconvinced that it was diabetes for sure.
That evening, Max was very much not himself. Staring off into space, still refusing to eat, etc. I had only just started reading into this forum and other resources online, so everything was still very new and information overload! We were not particularily happy with the dx we had received and my partner and I had been discussing getting a second opinion and just eating the cost of additional lab work.
Sept 14 morning, Max had still not eaten anything. We called our other vet at 8am (they regularly see our pooch) and they got us in for an appointment an hour later. We headed over, the new vet was very thorough with his initial diagnosis. Looking for other things that may be wrong, etc. He took max into the back to collect urine and do a BG test. He came back to us within 3 minutes VERY concerned. Max's ketones were very high on a test strip (sorry, dont have the exact number). Max was immediately hospitalized with them for DKA treatment.
He responded well throughout his time at the hospital. We received frequent updates on how he was doing. Ultimately he stayed with them for 3 days. We picked him up Monday afternoon (Sep 16).
Since he's been home, he's been getting 1U AM and 0.5U PM of Lantus. Food wise, he's been pretty uninterested in the MD pate and prefers the dry. He will eat his full portions of the dry across an 8 hour window or so, and we provide food every 12 hours, a little before his insulin shot.
I started measuring regularly in the last 2 days, based on my reading here
SS is in signature below.If anyone has tips on ideas to get him to eat his darn pate, I'd love to hear them! I will be picking up some FF today on my way home from work. Ironically, when we first adopted Max we fed him FF pate exclusively!
