Hey all-
My girl Karmin (5 years old, 10lbs) was recently diagnosed with diabetes a few weeks ago. I found this after her urge to be in the bathtub and getting water was through the roof, while she had a few episodes outside of the litter box. However, after we are now finding ourselves getting lower glucose levels. When she first was diagnosed, she was between 350-450mg/ml. After approximately 10 days of 1 unit/2x per day of prozinc, we received numbers of 153 both from a blood test (which also confirmed her liver values had corrected, too!) at the vet and a similar number with our Alphatrak. The following day she was back at 252mg/ml so we administered slightly less than 1 unit. It has now been 60 hours since that injection with numbers ranging from 117mg/ml (just 30 minutes ago after eating) to 152mg/ml this morning.
While there is still plenty of checks in our future, especially in the upcoming days, I'm wondering if this could be a potential/encouraging sign of remission?
Additional note: we did switch her (and our non-diabetic kitty) to a wet food diet at the time of diagnosis, too.
Thanks!
My girl Karmin (5 years old, 10lbs) was recently diagnosed with diabetes a few weeks ago. I found this after her urge to be in the bathtub and getting water was through the roof, while she had a few episodes outside of the litter box. However, after we are now finding ourselves getting lower glucose levels. When she first was diagnosed, she was between 350-450mg/ml. After approximately 10 days of 1 unit/2x per day of prozinc, we received numbers of 153 both from a blood test (which also confirmed her liver values had corrected, too!) at the vet and a similar number with our Alphatrak. The following day she was back at 252mg/ml so we administered slightly less than 1 unit. It has now been 60 hours since that injection with numbers ranging from 117mg/ml (just 30 minutes ago after eating) to 152mg/ml this morning.
While there is still plenty of checks in our future, especially in the upcoming days, I'm wondering if this could be a potential/encouraging sign of remission?
Additional note: we did switch her (and our non-diabetic kitty) to a wet food diet at the time of diagnosis, too.
Thanks!
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