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

[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.)