krazyfourkats
Member Since 2014
A big warm hello to all of the very caring people on this board. The passion and care that just oozes in the posts that I have read so far is so heart warming. If one is to think of a bright side to your loved feline being diagnosed with diabetes, it would be that it brings out the caring nature in many of us humans.
This is my first post here and I have so much to say and so little time to write and edit this so please forgive me if i go all over the place. I am also writing this on my smartphone, so please forgive typos etc.
My name is Ty, and my sweet little buddy Clarence (pic will come) started drinking a lot of water. When we brought him into the vet on dec 28, he was diagnosed with bg of 26.+ (aprox 470) . Other than that, his vital signs were all good. So he was sent home with purina dm wet and dry and an appointment on dec 30th with the "diabetic vet". So later that night on dec 28 he was fed some wet dm and seemed to like it, but by Sunday he wasn't eating or drinking a thing, which was very odd to us because Clarence could normally we can count on him to have a healthy appetite. So Monday morning we see the vet and she brings him in early because she is worried. After some tests, he now has some ketones in his urine. He is force fed and given sub q fluids, 2 units of lantus and sent home with us. We are told to dose him at 2 units in morning and 2 units at night. He starts to improve and two days later goes for a follow up and has no ketones but some bilirubin in urine. His bg is 29 (522) this time.
After the above visit, he starts to improve and we give a curve (sat jan 4): (all numbers aprox)
9am PMPS 20mmol/l (360)
Given fancy feast (cant remember amount)
1pm 17mmol/l (306)
5pm 15mmol/l (270)
9pm 10mmol/l (18)
Given more fancy feast of unknown amount
After first curve, the vet wanted us to change to 2 units in morning and 1 unit at night because his 12 hour curve did not show a nadir and she didn't want to overdose. This curve was extremely stressful for both him and us, so we put off doing another curve until sat jan 19th. Before I give you the numbers we got on that curve, I have to say that his clinical signs were PERFERCT (or should i say purrrrfect?
). I knew he was in good shape now but didn't know where his numbers would be. So the second curve look like this:
Saturday Jan 19
9am PMPS 2.9 (52)
fed 1/2 can fancy feast shot held off
1pm 3.5 (63)
fed 1/2 can fancy feast shot held off
5pm 3.5 (63)
fed 1/2 can fancy feast shot held off
9pm 4.3 (77)
fed 1/2 can fancy feast shot held off
Sunday jan 20
9am 4.2mmol/l (77)
fed 1/2 can ff and shot held off
9pm 4.8mmol/l (86)
fed 1/2 can of ff and shot held off
Monday Jan 21
feeding prior to bg test was at 8pm (1/2 can ff)
11pm 4.2(77)
Wednesday Jan 22
Last feeding was at 9pm Tues jan 21 (1/2 can ff)
5am 5.1mmol/l
he has not received a dose of insulin since Friday january 18th at 9pm (100+ hours)
My million dollar question is:
Although his BG is in normal range(without insulin), it does seem to be inching up over the past 100+ hours since his last dose of lantus, should I be weening him off insulin with 1/2 shot twice daily for another week or so? Or does everyone think it would be ok to monitor his bg and only dose IF his BG goes out of normal range?
And my half million dollar question is:
It seems as tho most people here use human meters and I have read that generally to get an estimated equivalent reading that you would get from an alphatrak you would add 1.6 mmol/l (30mg.dl), so are most of the people posting their numbers converting to the alphtrak number or are most people using what they are getting straight from their human meters? My readings posted were direct from the meter, and not adjusted.
I really hope that my poor writing didn't confuse people too much.
many thanks and kind regards to all
Ty
This is my first post here and I have so much to say and so little time to write and edit this so please forgive me if i go all over the place. I am also writing this on my smartphone, so please forgive typos etc.
My name is Ty, and my sweet little buddy Clarence (pic will come) started drinking a lot of water. When we brought him into the vet on dec 28, he was diagnosed with bg of 26.+ (aprox 470) . Other than that, his vital signs were all good. So he was sent home with purina dm wet and dry and an appointment on dec 30th with the "diabetic vet". So later that night on dec 28 he was fed some wet dm and seemed to like it, but by Sunday he wasn't eating or drinking a thing, which was very odd to us because Clarence could normally we can count on him to have a healthy appetite. So Monday morning we see the vet and she brings him in early because she is worried. After some tests, he now has some ketones in his urine. He is force fed and given sub q fluids, 2 units of lantus and sent home with us. We are told to dose him at 2 units in morning and 2 units at night. He starts to improve and two days later goes for a follow up and has no ketones but some bilirubin in urine. His bg is 29 (522) this time.
After the above visit, he starts to improve and we give a curve (sat jan 4): (all numbers aprox)
9am PMPS 20mmol/l (360)
Given fancy feast (cant remember amount)
1pm 17mmol/l (306)
5pm 15mmol/l (270)
9pm 10mmol/l (18)
Given more fancy feast of unknown amount
After first curve, the vet wanted us to change to 2 units in morning and 1 unit at night because his 12 hour curve did not show a nadir and she didn't want to overdose. This curve was extremely stressful for both him and us, so we put off doing another curve until sat jan 19th. Before I give you the numbers we got on that curve, I have to say that his clinical signs were PERFERCT (or should i say purrrrfect?
). I knew he was in good shape now but didn't know where his numbers would be. So the second curve look like this: Saturday Jan 19
9am PMPS 2.9 (52)
fed 1/2 can fancy feast shot held off
1pm 3.5 (63)
fed 1/2 can fancy feast shot held off
5pm 3.5 (63)
fed 1/2 can fancy feast shot held off
9pm 4.3 (77)
fed 1/2 can fancy feast shot held off
Sunday jan 20
9am 4.2mmol/l (77)
fed 1/2 can ff and shot held off
9pm 4.8mmol/l (86)
fed 1/2 can of ff and shot held off
Monday Jan 21
feeding prior to bg test was at 8pm (1/2 can ff)
11pm 4.2(77)
Wednesday Jan 22
Last feeding was at 9pm Tues jan 21 (1/2 can ff)
5am 5.1mmol/l
he has not received a dose of insulin since Friday january 18th at 9pm (100+ hours)
My million dollar question is:
Although his BG is in normal range(without insulin), it does seem to be inching up over the past 100+ hours since his last dose of lantus, should I be weening him off insulin with 1/2 shot twice daily for another week or so? Or does everyone think it would be ok to monitor his bg and only dose IF his BG goes out of normal range?
And my half million dollar question is:
It seems as tho most people here use human meters and I have read that generally to get an estimated equivalent reading that you would get from an alphatrak you would add 1.6 mmol/l (30mg.dl), so are most of the people posting their numbers converting to the alphtrak number or are most people using what they are getting straight from their human meters? My readings posted were direct from the meter, and not adjusted.
I really hope that my poor writing didn't confuse people too much.
many thanks and kind regards to all
Ty
