Aaron and Jasper
Member Since 2018
Long time absence for Jasper and I. I hate to admit that I fell out of habit with sheets, and fell into some bad habits such as just setting and forgetting it. Sorry to be gone from the community for so long.
As opposed to before and a change of pace, I've been financially okay recently and trying to get Jasper the help he needs and be more diligent myself. Jasper has a dental tomorrow (might require extractions) and I'm curious mostly about what medications you all recommend for after?
Recent Jasper:
6-26-20 Fructosamine 331
11-18 Dental Consultation, lvl 2 maybe 3
0.5 dose held, until he started losing weight around late Jan/Feb. I had dental suspicions.
2-22-21 Full blood work and fructosamine, I started daily subcu saline
2-24-21Kidney/liver values good, fruc 559 :/
Doc suggested dose of 1.0 (he still may have been right in this case but I didn't want to jump by .5. Also, I don't want to keep increasing his dose if its due to infection)
3-4-15 Applied a freestyle libre to aid in dose change monitoring. Dose increase to .75.
It responded until approximately 3-13, in my opinion it (the sensor itself) was tremendously successful. Average BG was about 270. He seemed to be getting low at the end of every cycle.
I'm up to somewhere around .85-9 with the dose right now and he's averaging low 200s.
I will be applying another libre tomorrow in anticipation for everything after the dental (meds, bacteria flush, dose change, etc.) and expect if everything goes well he'll get a reduction.
Sorry, I know that was so much, but any thoughts/opinions? I consider my vet very competent but are there any meds I should stand my ground and say no about?
P.S. The attached image is that of the approximately 9 days of libre data. The dark line was average, the grey is all of it together. Keep in mind though before you all get really scared, the libre values are on average 70 points higher. (I would have never known this if I didn't take physical draws.) Every reading is also about 30 mins behind (interstitial tissue.)
If anyone wants full access to the libre data, I can give it to you.
Thank you everyone!
As opposed to before and a change of pace, I've been financially okay recently and trying to get Jasper the help he needs and be more diligent myself. Jasper has a dental tomorrow (might require extractions) and I'm curious mostly about what medications you all recommend for after?
Recent Jasper:
6-26-20 Fructosamine 331
11-18 Dental Consultation, lvl 2 maybe 3
0.5 dose held, until he started losing weight around late Jan/Feb. I had dental suspicions.
2-22-21 Full blood work and fructosamine, I started daily subcu saline
2-24-21Kidney/liver values good, fruc 559 :/
Doc suggested dose of 1.0 (he still may have been right in this case but I didn't want to jump by .5. Also, I don't want to keep increasing his dose if its due to infection)
3-4-15 Applied a freestyle libre to aid in dose change monitoring. Dose increase to .75.
It responded until approximately 3-13, in my opinion it (the sensor itself) was tremendously successful. Average BG was about 270. He seemed to be getting low at the end of every cycle.
I'm up to somewhere around .85-9 with the dose right now and he's averaging low 200s.
I will be applying another libre tomorrow in anticipation for everything after the dental (meds, bacteria flush, dose change, etc.) and expect if everything goes well he'll get a reduction.
Sorry, I know that was so much, but any thoughts/opinions? I consider my vet very competent but are there any meds I should stand my ground and say no about?
P.S. The attached image is that of the approximately 9 days of libre data. The dark line was average, the grey is all of it together. Keep in mind though before you all get really scared, the libre values are on average 70 points higher. (I would have never known this if I didn't take physical draws.) Every reading is also about 30 mins behind (interstitial tissue.)
If anyone wants full access to the libre data, I can give it to you.
Thank you everyone!
