Sunday, August 18, 2019

Hypoglycemia

It's been an adventure with Pippin the last few days.  His glucose starts out in the morning at 400+ so we give him his 4 units of insulin and then boom.. 4 hours later he is at 40.  Which is a really scary number. We have some emergency instaglucose which didn't raise him as much as I thought it would. He's only gone up 10 points in the last two hours.  But he's going up and that's what is important. I've given him a ton of wet food and he's eaten most of it. I worry so much when things like this happen.  Honestly having a diabetic cat is stressful and I really don't want to have another one. Times like this make me worry because everything I've known so far is wrong.  Meaning ... he's at 400+ so give him the 4 units, then BOOM he's at 40 which makes no sense.  Everything I've been taught about dealing with a diabetic cat is out the door! The way we could tell that he wasn't right yesterday was because he was not steady on his feet, wobbly, walking on his haunches, and basically not normal.  I just hope we get him regulated again. Update to come in later post.