Jcoasternut
Member Since 2022
One of my cats, Flame, had suddenly lost weight. February 9, 2022 he was diagnosed with diabetes and started on 1 unit of Prozinc twice a day. His glucose was 418 on that date. He had a glucose curve on February 17, 2022. The initial reading was 70 at 8:15am. At 9am it was 68. It went back to 71 at 10am. By 4:30pm it was 142.The vet then cut his insulin to 1 unit once daily.
On March 27, 2022. He was acting very strange and unable to walk without stumbling. Gave him sugar water and dry food. It was a Sunday afternoon. The next day, I held his insulin and was seen by a different vet at the same office. His blood sugar was in the high 400s. The flea preventive he is on has a component that is known to on occasion cause seizure type activity. She prescribed phenobarbital.
He had another glucose curve on March 30,2022. His initial three readings were 64, 62, and 69. By 4:30pm his reading was 125.
When he was first diagnosed the vet recommended I discontinue all dry food, which I did. After the second glucose curve his vet recommended discontinuing insulin totally. I suggested trying to allow him dry food once again to see if that made a difference, as he was fond of dry food.
On April 4, 2022 a Monday evening he became listless after acting fine all day. Once again thought of low blood sugar and gave sugar water. It made no difference. Just sleeping but alert when his name called. The next morning I took him in to the vets office as soon as they opened. He had 105 temp.
Vet suspected pancreatitis or a cancer as a cause of his issues particularly since his blood sugar was in the high 400s again. He spent Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday on IV therapy at Vets office. He had many lab tests. Toxoplasmosis amoung other diseases was ruled out. Labs indicated possible pancreatitis. After the first day o IV therapy and an injection of dexamethasone he temp was 101. He spent the night at home as was almost back to normal. Following Wednesdays IV therapy he was initially ok. He didn't receive the steroid as vet said it masked symptoms and wanted to see how he would do overnight without it. By Thursday morning he was back to be as bad as at the beginning. He fever was once again 105. Thursday besides his IV therapy, he recived the steroid again. His fever was now 99. He was sent home with Prednisolone 5mg to give daily beginning the next morning. He returned Friday morning, his feved still 99 and he was eating and acting normal. He didn't stay. His blood sugar was in the high 400s.
Vet has recommended trying a novel protein diet for possible IBD as maybe he stomach is not absorbing enough nutrients and that is causing issue s stabilizing his blood sugar. Getting ready to start this. Vet said give insulin if he eating. I am very leery of giving the full one unit of Prozinc and wanted to try giving 1\2 unit. Although not a standard dose, I want to try it.
Any thoughts are welcome particularly on his wild blood sugar fluctuations on minimal insulin.
Also please note he had been on antibiotics for a month when he came down with fever. He had a urinary tract infection which is now cleared up.
On March 27, 2022. He was acting very strange and unable to walk without stumbling. Gave him sugar water and dry food. It was a Sunday afternoon. The next day, I held his insulin and was seen by a different vet at the same office. His blood sugar was in the high 400s. The flea preventive he is on has a component that is known to on occasion cause seizure type activity. She prescribed phenobarbital.
He had another glucose curve on March 30,2022. His initial three readings were 64, 62, and 69. By 4:30pm his reading was 125.
When he was first diagnosed the vet recommended I discontinue all dry food, which I did. After the second glucose curve his vet recommended discontinuing insulin totally. I suggested trying to allow him dry food once again to see if that made a difference, as he was fond of dry food.
On April 4, 2022 a Monday evening he became listless after acting fine all day. Once again thought of low blood sugar and gave sugar water. It made no difference. Just sleeping but alert when his name called. The next morning I took him in to the vets office as soon as they opened. He had 105 temp.
Vet suspected pancreatitis or a cancer as a cause of his issues particularly since his blood sugar was in the high 400s again. He spent Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday on IV therapy at Vets office. He had many lab tests. Toxoplasmosis amoung other diseases was ruled out. Labs indicated possible pancreatitis. After the first day o IV therapy and an injection of dexamethasone he temp was 101. He spent the night at home as was almost back to normal. Following Wednesdays IV therapy he was initially ok. He didn't receive the steroid as vet said it masked symptoms and wanted to see how he would do overnight without it. By Thursday morning he was back to be as bad as at the beginning. He fever was once again 105. Thursday besides his IV therapy, he recived the steroid again. His fever was now 99. He was sent home with Prednisolone 5mg to give daily beginning the next morning. He returned Friday morning, his feved still 99 and he was eating and acting normal. He didn't stay. His blood sugar was in the high 400s.
Vet has recommended trying a novel protein diet for possible IBD as maybe he stomach is not absorbing enough nutrients and that is causing issue s stabilizing his blood sugar. Getting ready to start this. Vet said give insulin if he eating. I am very leery of giving the full one unit of Prozinc and wanted to try giving 1\2 unit. Although not a standard dose, I want to try it.
Any thoughts are welcome particularly on his wild blood sugar fluctuations on minimal insulin.
Also please note he had been on antibiotics for a month when he came down with fever. He had a urinary tract infection which is now cleared up.
