BBelshan
Member Since 2019
Lately Beast has been having good numbers pre-shot and some days I don't give any insulin and others I give between .25 or .125 u of vetsulin. But as I am super new and still not had a good curve, I am unsure of how low is too low to shoot. I think I found it last night. He was at 122. Now he may not have went hypo and maybe it was a fluke accident, but I still feel a bit guilty. I gave him .125 at 5:30 pm. Now my husband has been getting terrible sleep lately and was up around 2:30 am so it was 9 hours later and said he was walking around normal and with vetsulin he would have been way beyond the lowest point. But sometime between 2:30 am and 5:00 am he hurt himself. I have seen him on our kitchen counters and dining room table a few times and he has put on more weight so perhaps it had nothing to do with his blood levels at all, either way, he landed wrong. I noticed something was off when I walked out of my bedroom and he wasn't there. He was on the couch. He didn't come to the kitchen when I was preparing food so I knew something was wrong. I feared hypo and started kinda petting him and touching his paws. He was alert and moving his feet away. When I put the food near him he only sniffed at it. I tried picking him up and he started hissing and growling. That is when I noticed the swelling in his wrist. He did finally get up but was limping and still growling. I took him in to the vets when they opened and they x-rayed him. They said they think sprain but small possibility of dislocation - not broken. He will be in a splint for a few weeks and kept in our walk in closet to prevent jumping up high. I don't think I will shoot unless he is at least 130 now just in case I made him a bit wobbly. Poor guy can't catch a break - first diabetes, then tooth extraction, now hurt leg.
