mccat2
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Hi Everyone:
I am new to this site and am looking for your help. I have a 16 year old male cat Sampson who was diagnosed as a diabetic. He was drinking a lot of water and losing weight. His glucose level was over 500 when we discovered it. The vet had me start insulin injections at the 1 unit dose of humalin 2 times per day. We went weekly for 3 weeks, with sugar decreasing from over 500, to 360 to 228 on November 12th. The working vet that day told me to increase his dosage to 2 units per day twice a day. On Thursday November 18th Sampson went into hypoglycemic shock and I had to rush him to an emergency vet after hours. Cost me a lot of money, but I love him dearly. His glucose level had dropped to 20. Apparently I nearly killed him with those injections. Got him out of the emergency Vet and transported him to my regular vet when he was stable. We have been taking his sugar weekly (but waited through the holidays). The last several times his sugar has been at 284 and 247 respectively. Oh yeah, he hasn't been on insulin since the episode (frankly I am scared to death to give him any). My next vet appointment is on Monday. However, he is looking really frail, a little wobbly and seems confused from time to time. Could this be due his sugar level dropping so low? I had gotten out of bed that night around midnight, looked for him, he didn't look right picked him up, put him on the bathroom floor and he fell over and began to urinate. I immediately got him to the vet within 20 minutes of him falling. What are your thoughts? He also has an odor eminating from him, It's not horrible but I smell it on him. It's almost medicinal but hard to accurately describe.
I also have to believe that the vet that day made a big mistake in having me double his dose when his sugar was coming down so nicely. However, I didn't know and I also didn't have knowledge of the corn syrup at time either. My question is how do I get this sugar under control and how to I prevent another episode like this and also why is he not seeming right to me after this problem. However, he does have some better days, where is more like this old self and a little more peppy. Please help, I would really appreciate you input.
Also just learning this website so bear with me.
Vicki & Sampson
I am new to this site and am looking for your help. I have a 16 year old male cat Sampson who was diagnosed as a diabetic. He was drinking a lot of water and losing weight. His glucose level was over 500 when we discovered it. The vet had me start insulin injections at the 1 unit dose of humalin 2 times per day. We went weekly for 3 weeks, with sugar decreasing from over 500, to 360 to 228 on November 12th. The working vet that day told me to increase his dosage to 2 units per day twice a day. On Thursday November 18th Sampson went into hypoglycemic shock and I had to rush him to an emergency vet after hours. Cost me a lot of money, but I love him dearly. His glucose level had dropped to 20. Apparently I nearly killed him with those injections. Got him out of the emergency Vet and transported him to my regular vet when he was stable. We have been taking his sugar weekly (but waited through the holidays). The last several times his sugar has been at 284 and 247 respectively. Oh yeah, he hasn't been on insulin since the episode (frankly I am scared to death to give him any). My next vet appointment is on Monday. However, he is looking really frail, a little wobbly and seems confused from time to time. Could this be due his sugar level dropping so low? I had gotten out of bed that night around midnight, looked for him, he didn't look right picked him up, put him on the bathroom floor and he fell over and began to urinate. I immediately got him to the vet within 20 minutes of him falling. What are your thoughts? He also has an odor eminating from him, It's not horrible but I smell it on him. It's almost medicinal but hard to accurately describe.
I also have to believe that the vet that day made a big mistake in having me double his dose when his sugar was coming down so nicely. However, I didn't know and I also didn't have knowledge of the corn syrup at time either. My question is how do I get this sugar under control and how to I prevent another episode like this and also why is he not seeming right to me after this problem. However, he does have some better days, where is more like this old self and a little more peppy. Please help, I would really appreciate you input.
Also just learning this website so bear with me.
Vicki & Sampson