David & Mochi
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Previous thread since starting insulin here
So Mochi is due for a dental cleaning. Her vet told me to hold off for now but when the time comes is there any info on how to adjust dose/feeding etc going into the anesthesia/appointment? Vet also told me to hold off on brushing her teeth at home in the beginning since she isn't used to it but I understand it's importance now so i figure maybe wait a week or two for her to adjust see how she's doing and go from there?
Also in terms of wet food. I read the sticky on transitioning them and she's slowly taken to it and I always present it first but she still prefers the dry. Now that she's on insulin along with ketone testing. Should I start withholding food when she doesn't eat enough wet food (provided her bg isn't low or dropping) and let her beg and get more hungry until she eats more of it? I know making sure she ate before she was on insulin was top priority to limit ketone risk but is that different now or is there a certain range of bg I should wait for before it's safe to start attempts at letting her wait until she's hungry enough to eat more wet? Currently about 50-66% of her calories are still coming from the lc dry.
Edited to add: Finally got the exact value from her fructosimine test. Vet said 535. I don't get it since her first vet glucose test was 392 which she shouldve been stressed for and I've never seen values that high so I don't get how that could be an average? Does that change anything about what dose she should be starting on? The vet seems very insistent on bumping up to 1u but I said I didn't feel comfortable with that before she builds a depot and then seeing how her numbers look and even then its more than the .25u adjustments suggested and I tend to trust the advice on here more from everything I've learned so far. Either way I told them I'm not considering adjusting the dose before at least a few days of depot build up and then numbers for some days after that. (is the number difference because fructosimine results are in umol/l vs glucose readings being in mg/dl)? Also right away there's been a lot more yellow numbers, which I assume is coincidence since it takes up to 3 days to see much impact from insulin from what I understand but either way that doesn't make me want to double the dose after 1 day if it is already taking some effect.
So Mochi is due for a dental cleaning. Her vet told me to hold off for now but when the time comes is there any info on how to adjust dose/feeding etc going into the anesthesia/appointment? Vet also told me to hold off on brushing her teeth at home in the beginning since she isn't used to it but I understand it's importance now so i figure maybe wait a week or two for her to adjust see how she's doing and go from there?
Also in terms of wet food. I read the sticky on transitioning them and she's slowly taken to it and I always present it first but she still prefers the dry. Now that she's on insulin along with ketone testing. Should I start withholding food when she doesn't eat enough wet food (provided her bg isn't low or dropping) and let her beg and get more hungry until she eats more of it? I know making sure she ate before she was on insulin was top priority to limit ketone risk but is that different now or is there a certain range of bg I should wait for before it's safe to start attempts at letting her wait until she's hungry enough to eat more wet? Currently about 50-66% of her calories are still coming from the lc dry.
Edited to add: Finally got the exact value from her fructosimine test. Vet said 535. I don't get it since her first vet glucose test was 392 which she shouldve been stressed for and I've never seen values that high so I don't get how that could be an average? Does that change anything about what dose she should be starting on? The vet seems very insistent on bumping up to 1u but I said I didn't feel comfortable with that before she builds a depot and then seeing how her numbers look and even then its more than the .25u adjustments suggested and I tend to trust the advice on here more from everything I've learned so far. Either way I told them I'm not considering adjusting the dose before at least a few days of depot build up and then numbers for some days after that. (is the number difference because fructosimine results are in umol/l vs glucose readings being in mg/dl)? Also right away there's been a lot more yellow numbers, which I assume is coincidence since it takes up to 3 days to see much impact from insulin from what I understand but either way that doesn't make me want to double the dose after 1 day if it is already taking some effect.
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