Pantzel & Eugen
Member Since 2015
Hello all,
Firstly I want to say you are amazing, found a lot of info helping me to understand the diabetes of my Pantzel.
Indeed a forum I will rather skip, but here I am, owner of Pantzel recently found with diabetes.
Below is the long story but, in short, the problem now is that we cannot regulate him, after probably 2-3 months without treatment and one month on VETSULIN. Maybe somebody can check his SS (in my signature) and gives an advice on how to go further?
Many thanks for any input!
Pantzel long story:
His problems started this July when he suddenly stop eating / eating a lot less. He was overweight at 6.8kg back then. I didn't notice any increase in water intake or urination but he was staying a lot under the bed and playing less - I thought because of the heat wave at it's absolute maximum back then. He was also having since some time a really bad mouth odor so I suspected his teeth.
After 3 days I took him to the vet. The vet told me he is having a teeth problem and during the extraction done next day they also ran a blood test.
After the operation Pantzel was left with one incisive and one molar less and I was told that the blood tests indicate he is having a chronic renal failure (CREA 261 umol/l). The glucose level was also high (15mmol/l) but the vet suspected that was the effect of the operation stress. I was told to give him the special KD food (low protein, high carbs) and to come back in 6 months. I was given special antibiotics but was not able to force feed him with them and then the vet, at a second visit gave him an universal long acting antibiotics injection.
Immediately after the operation he started drinking / urinating a lot - had to change his sand box with a bigger one. The next 2 months there was a cycle of eating a few days (low appetite, tried/wasted a lot of food -all wet), then vomiting and not eating at all for one day and so on. He also was loosing weight at an alarming rate of 100g/week. He didn't like the special food so I was adding in his normal food a phosphor binder. I thought all these are because his CRF and that he is doomed. It was really a hell for me, trying to make him to eat and watching him slowly dying because of CRF - so I thought, given that the average life expectancy is 6-7months.
In October he suddenly decided that he likes the special KD food and ate that for one week without vomiting. Then he started vomiting and stopped drinking and eating. Two days later I called a new vet at home (old one was busy that day) and they gave him fluids and started antibiotics. The new blood test revealed that his kidneys seems at limit OK (CREA 198 umol/l) but that he is diabetic - 27 mmol/l (486 mg/l) glucose level and fructose was also very high. His urine test was mostly in the normal expectations or a little bit off. The blood test also indicated that he is having an infection.
After this first visit he gradually started to feel better, eating normally without fuss the same type of food. I've tried to switch him to special diabetic food (Purina DM canned) by mixing it with his normal food, but after a few new episodes of vomiting and low appetite he stopped to eat the mixture so he is now only on normal wet food (protein 50% fat 26% carbs 11%). He also put back some weight (from 4.7kg at the start of insulin to 4.9kg now).
After 10 days on antibiotics we started with Vetsulin but after one month he is still not regulated - his records are in my signature.
Firstly I want to say you are amazing, found a lot of info helping me to understand the diabetes of my Pantzel.
Indeed a forum I will rather skip, but here I am, owner of Pantzel recently found with diabetes.
Below is the long story but, in short, the problem now is that we cannot regulate him, after probably 2-3 months without treatment and one month on VETSULIN. Maybe somebody can check his SS (in my signature) and gives an advice on how to go further?
Many thanks for any input!
Pantzel long story:
His problems started this July when he suddenly stop eating / eating a lot less. He was overweight at 6.8kg back then. I didn't notice any increase in water intake or urination but he was staying a lot under the bed and playing less - I thought because of the heat wave at it's absolute maximum back then. He was also having since some time a really bad mouth odor so I suspected his teeth.
After 3 days I took him to the vet. The vet told me he is having a teeth problem and during the extraction done next day they also ran a blood test.
After the operation Pantzel was left with one incisive and one molar less and I was told that the blood tests indicate he is having a chronic renal failure (CREA 261 umol/l). The glucose level was also high (15mmol/l) but the vet suspected that was the effect of the operation stress. I was told to give him the special KD food (low protein, high carbs) and to come back in 6 months. I was given special antibiotics but was not able to force feed him with them and then the vet, at a second visit gave him an universal long acting antibiotics injection.
Immediately after the operation he started drinking / urinating a lot - had to change his sand box with a bigger one. The next 2 months there was a cycle of eating a few days (low appetite, tried/wasted a lot of food -all wet), then vomiting and not eating at all for one day and so on. He also was loosing weight at an alarming rate of 100g/week. He didn't like the special food so I was adding in his normal food a phosphor binder. I thought all these are because his CRF and that he is doomed. It was really a hell for me, trying to make him to eat and watching him slowly dying because of CRF - so I thought, given that the average life expectancy is 6-7months.
In October he suddenly decided that he likes the special KD food and ate that for one week without vomiting. Then he started vomiting and stopped drinking and eating. Two days later I called a new vet at home (old one was busy that day) and they gave him fluids and started antibiotics. The new blood test revealed that his kidneys seems at limit OK (CREA 198 umol/l) but that he is diabetic - 27 mmol/l (486 mg/l) glucose level and fructose was also very high. His urine test was mostly in the normal expectations or a little bit off. The blood test also indicated that he is having an infection.
After this first visit he gradually started to feel better, eating normally without fuss the same type of food. I've tried to switch him to special diabetic food (Purina DM canned) by mixing it with his normal food, but after a few new episodes of vomiting and low appetite he stopped to eat the mixture so he is now only on normal wet food (protein 50% fat 26% carbs 11%). He also put back some weight (from 4.7kg at the start of insulin to 4.9kg now).
After 10 days on antibiotics we started with Vetsulin but after one month he is still not regulated - his records are in my signature.
