Duchess is less diabetic

[cjsmith]

Blood glucose readings Sunday:

7:30 breakfast
7:50 3 units insulin
7:53 68
10:08 46
10:10 Gave more food!
10:48 44 (but no sign of lethargy or stumbling)
Gave up on curve; gave food and treats. No insulin given in the evening.

Monday:

7:15 breakfast, NO insulin
7:59 136

With readings like that, I guessed she wasn't diabetic at all any more. This could explain those episodes she's had! Her glucose could be getting very low! I brought her in to the vet this morning & they got a reading of 330. Oops. She's always higher at the clinic, but that's way up there. So the doctor says she should go down to one unit twice a day.

That's not bad. If I'm giving her insulin, I'll remember to do my own B12 injection. I forgot that this morning.

Comments

[nosrednayduj]

I just punted on the whole vet thing after the first year or so and completely managed Mottle's diabetes at home. She went into remission about every two months for a couple months. I just did urine strip tests (helps she didn't use the box and there was a puddle, oops ;-) until they came out black, then started testing glucose and figuring out how much insulin she needed, ramping up and down as needed.

I was on fertility meds at the time, and had access to sterile saline in needle bottles and empty needle bottles for mixing the meds, and I just borrowed some to make my own diluted insulin for easier microdosing!

Go Duchess in remission!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That's pretty cool that you could do that! Honestly, if/when I move away from this vet clinic, I'm probably going to manage Duchess entirely on my own as well.

Many good thoughts to Ken. Fingers crossed for him.

[sharya.livejournal.com]

With my old cat Boots who was diabetic, he got white coat syndrome... he'd get so anxious around the vets that his sugar levels would go through the roof! We had to get a tester and do a curve at home... that was considered much more accurate than any test at the vets.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Duchess is that way too, after too many glucose curves early on. The vets have asked me to do another curve at home in a little more than a week. (Apparently it takes a while for a change in dosage to register on the glucose curve measurements. When I looked at Sunday's and Monday's data, the data I put in the post, I didn't realize there was that lag.)