Risky Update -- need your thoughts

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MarthaPaige

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Since Risky came from hospital his BG has been high. Hospital used R insulin and his numbers stayed around 300. Since he has been home they have been running around 500. 11:15 p.m. last night he tested 532; during the night he was 480; at 8:45 this morning he was 490. At 9:00 a.m. I gave him 2.5 units and he tested for a trace of ketones. Remember when he came home from the hospital yesterday there were no ketones present. He is alert, seems to feel good and is eating and drinking. He is eating mostly Tuna with a mix of dry Purina DM and Science Diet. I can't get him to eat FF or Purina DM by itself. He is taking 1.5 tablets of Batril daily. I have a call in to the vet. One thing that concerns me is his insulin. Since the vet had the insulin and it was not in my care, did they leave it out of the fridge? We are on vacation and the vets in this area do not use Prz so it might be hard to find a source if I needed to get another bottle. Suggestions??????
 
Call the ER vet and ask if the Prozinc was kept in the fridge. Truly, it normally takes some time for them to respond back to long lasting insulins like Prozinc after being ketonic. It took Kitty 3 days to respond to the Prozinc after coming off of the R she was given during her DKA crisis, but she was negative for ketones--that makes a huge difference.

Test Risky at +2 (2 hours after giving the morning dose) and see where he is.

It is good that you have called the vet....don't mess around with the trace ketones. I am thinking he needs fluids again this morning.
 
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