Sky's first curve

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Sootyca

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Sky has had her first curve done at the vets (haven't yet managed to get any blood out of her) and they're really pleased with her so she staying on her current dosage of 2. She didn't eat her lunch so she was really out of sorts but the vet nurse managed to get blood from her. She did have a minispike early afternoon and then really increased at the last check but that is only about 90 minutes off when she would normally eat again (and she would normally eat lunch) so all in all they were very pleased. They did check her every 1/2 hour at one point (between the +4 and +7) and she was in the dark green bit of the spreadsheet for all of it.

It does go to show though how dangerous it was last last week - to get low numbers on a 2 dose when last week she was being given a 5 dose - the numbers she has got to on a 2 it is quite frightening how low she must have been at times without me realising.

I think we are very lucky - not only that she survived last week but that she is responding so well.

Karen
 
Done thanks :) She is on Caninsulin, 2 units morning and night. I'm hoping the high spike is because she hadn't eaten since 6.30 and that was 4.30pm - think she was on hunger strike! She certainly wanted food as it was the first thing she did when she got home!
 
That is a good caninsulin curve - do you test before each shot? You need to get the habit of test, feed, shoot as our kittys can throw surprise numbers at us and you need to know if it is safe to give the insulin - also vet stress can raise the numbers. I found I often got a higher number at +10 and it then dropped again by the time the shot was due. Nature of the insulin as some cats get a second drop after +10.
 
I don't test at the moment - she is very hard to get blood out of but I know it's really the safest and best way to manage her. Going to let her relax a little as she did have a lot of messing at the vets yesterday before trying again. :)
 
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