Duchess-plus-ungood

[cjsmith]

Glucose curve so far today: 428, 483, 490. I don't even have to run the rest of the curve to know her insulin dose is going up Very Soon Now.

Teeny tiny little additional clues: she's skinny, she drinks like a fish, and she soaks everything within a foot of the litterbox. This is her beleaguered system waving a giant glowing sign saying HELLO, HUMAN. THIS CAT HERE NEEDS SOME MEDICAL ATTENTION. WAKE UP.

(In her case, skinny is bad. A healthy weight does help keep kitty diabetes in check, but Duchess never gets skinny unless her diabetes jumps up and bites her. It does jump up, too. She'll drift into remission, but when she goes diabetic again it's quick. Weight loss is usually my first signal that she needs a glucose curve.)

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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it takes a toll any time her sugars aren't under control, which happens every time her body changes & makes the dose wrong. She's a particularly unstable case, has been since she was diagnosed, and her life will probably be shortened because of it. (O'course, at 15 years and still functional, she's already had a good run. I can't complain.)

16 units does seem like a very big dose. I wonder whether that's a less insane dose for Vetsulin; maybe it varies a little bit with the kind of insulin. Duchess is using human insulin, a slow long-acting variant, and she's never been above 5 units 2x/day.

Thanks! I hope Gary gets stabilized too. That's the worst, when they're not stable and everybody has to keep rechecking everything.