My Simba is in Intensive Care

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Ann & Scatcats

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This diabetes thing has been a roller coaster for him and since he got diabetes in 2006 he has been so challenged with a galopping unregulated diabetes, severe pancreatitis and then chronic pancreatitis, ketoacidosis, one severe hypo incident in 2008, and since he got good regulated during 2010 he has instead have repeated urine infections, and now he is in Intensive Care at the animal hospital since yesterday.

I feel so sorry for him, he is my hero and he is 15 now and I hope he pulls through this too. They are not sure what is wrong with him.


Does anyone know why dr Lisa isn't here anymore? I miss her wise advice to all.
 
Thanks everyone.

It started on the night between Friday and Saturday, when he started to vomit and all of a sudden had diarreha. He didn't eat much in the morning on Saturday or throughout the day, just layed down sleeping. Then around 6 pm on Saturday evening he got up and went out to the food in the kitchen but acted really weird not eating. Then he started to stagger around all over the apartment in the most strange way all out of contact. At first I thought he had a hypo, so I poured dextrose into him, and then tested his bg, and my meter read 6.6 mmol, 119, which isn't alarming but lead me to think that he was lower before I gave him all the dextrose. He was really out of it, and I also took his temperature which on my temp showed high temperature. Because he had vomitted and had diarreha in the night, I also thought he might have an infection, and I had some antibiotics at home and gave him a half as it said on it. But he kept staggering around all over the apartment, not making contact with me, and then he started to breath with his mouth open, which isn't a good sign in cats. It was if he really was fighting for his life. So I went straight into ER with him at the animal hospital. When they came at 8pm to take the emergency blood test, he hadn't changed, and was so out of it he didn't even react to the needle pain as he normally do. And on that blood test it showed he now had 3.3 mmol, 59, and that is very low for him. And in spite all the dextrose I had poured into him. When the vet came she also checked his eyes, and the pupils didn't contract, so she suspected high blood pressure. He was admitted and put in an oxygene cage at Intensive Care, with iv fluids with glucose, and I left. They also measured his blood pressure but it was 138, which is normal, so that wasn't the cause then.
They've done xray of his lungs which showed normal, ultrasound of his abdomen which showed nothing, they took sterile bladder urine test to see if there was an urine infection but that test was normal, but on the large blood test it showed infection. But they really don't know what is wrong with him.

He was supposed to come home today Tuesday, but they called this morning and said he had vomitted and had diarreha again and also been low in the blood sugar, so they are keeping him and will call again tomorrow. They will also call if any changes so I can come in.
 
Maybe a parasite? Have they done an exam of his fecal matter? Do they have him on IV antibiotics?

(((Ann))) My thoughts are with you and your Scatcats.
 
Venita, if it was parasites, wouldn't Gustav also be sick? Gustav seems fine though and act like a glued band aid on me now when Simba isn't home.
 
Thank You everyone!

Simba is home, have been home for an hour. He has peed a lot, groomed himself carefully and now tries to sleep.

I will monitor him how he develops.

They have been having problems with the insulin dosage at the hospital. I told them the first day, that he shouldn't have his normal dose of 5 U BID when he isn't eating and throwing up.

I will see if he wants to eat at all today.
 
Thanks everyone.

Food seems to have become something evil, since he is not so keen on eating. He didn't even care about the Fortiflora on.
 
Thanks everyone.

He has been home now for a day and a half, and is very finicky. But we have this high quality KMR kitten milk replacer formula which also can be given to adult cats http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/p ... catid=1969 and we've used it before, so I am plastic syringe feeding him that. It would be easier if he had a tube also but we'll plot along like this until he is back to his normal self again.
 
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