Hi, I'm really curious as to whether or not anyone else out there has experienced the same (or a similar) situation as I have. My cat (male short haired, around 9 years old, by the way I am in Canada) was vaccinated about a month and a half ago, rabies and I believe distemper, and had a bad reaction to the vaccine a few hours later (vomiting and shivering). We took him back in the next day and he was given some antihistamines (I don't know the exact type). He seemed to be a-ok but we had a trip planned for less than a week after this and were gone for two weeks. The friend that was taking care of him while we were gone continuously told us that he seemed just fine but when we got back he was clearly NOT ok and could barely walk.
We took him into a different vet and found out that he had lost about 10% of his body weight and the vet was very confident that the issue was immune-mediated arthritis (I hope that's correct terminology). He was put on Prednisolone (5mg twice a day) and was given some painkillers to get him through the first few days. Soon after this he started having diarrhea which we believe was caused by the Prednisolone so we started him on Metronidazole to calm down his guts.
On our last trip in (yesterday) we were a bit concerned about possible kidney issues due to some things we had read online and asked for his urine to be checked for protein, as I'm sure you can guess by this point, no protein in his urine but they did find sugar. They checked his BG levels on the spot and I believe the level was 19.6 (about 350).
The vet has put him onto Lantus and he just had his third shot (1 unit each time). He slept for a huge amount of time today after his morning shot but seems to be perkier than he has been in a long time this evening leading up to and following the evening shot. His Prednisilone doses have been cut in half today and we are bringing him off them ASAP but our big concern is that they haven't finished doing their job with the arthritis...
Sorry for the ridiculously long story but it is what it is. I was just hoping to see if anyone has any experience even close to this with the steroid induced diabetes (sorry!, forgot to mention that he was NOT diabetic four weeks ago). I have been trying to do as much reading as I can but as you all know it can get a bit overwhelming trying to figure it all out in the first couple of days. Thanks for listening! :smile:
We took him into a different vet and found out that he had lost about 10% of his body weight and the vet was very confident that the issue was immune-mediated arthritis (I hope that's correct terminology). He was put on Prednisolone (5mg twice a day) and was given some painkillers to get him through the first few days. Soon after this he started having diarrhea which we believe was caused by the Prednisolone so we started him on Metronidazole to calm down his guts.
On our last trip in (yesterday) we were a bit concerned about possible kidney issues due to some things we had read online and asked for his urine to be checked for protein, as I'm sure you can guess by this point, no protein in his urine but they did find sugar. They checked his BG levels on the spot and I believe the level was 19.6 (about 350).
The vet has put him onto Lantus and he just had his third shot (1 unit each time). He slept for a huge amount of time today after his morning shot but seems to be perkier than he has been in a long time this evening leading up to and following the evening shot. His Prednisilone doses have been cut in half today and we are bringing him off them ASAP but our big concern is that they haven't finished doing their job with the arthritis...
Sorry for the ridiculously long story but it is what it is. I was just hoping to see if anyone has any experience even close to this with the steroid induced diabetes (sorry!, forgot to mention that he was NOT diabetic four weeks ago). I have been trying to do as much reading as I can but as you all know it can get a bit overwhelming trying to figure it all out in the first couple of days. Thanks for listening! :smile:
