Snookums's first glucose curve
13 Apr 2019 12:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneThe good news: We did Snookums's first blood curve successfully yesterday! His poor little ear isn't happy and at one point he sprayed blood around a bit, but he wasn't too miffed about it.
The bad news: his peak blood glucose was nearly 20 mmol/L (when anything over 17 is cause for concern and we want to try to get below 15).
So he's still on a rather extreme cycle, going from 20ish (YIKES) to 4ish (a pretty healthy level) and back every 12 hours, the poor little snugglebear. I've already switched to the recommended kinds of wet foods and reduced the cats' kibble consumption according to the feline diabetes community wisdom, but not completely removed the dry food yet to avoid any possible backlash.
I'm a bit concerned still, though, because they have been eating much less dry food, and he's been on insulin for several months now.
I can still move on to the next step though, and give him a week or so of testing daily and see if the final removal of kibble does anything in that time.
The bad news: his peak blood glucose was nearly 20 mmol/L (when anything over 17 is cause for concern and we want to try to get below 15).
So he's still on a rather extreme cycle, going from 20ish (YIKES) to 4ish (a pretty healthy level) and back every 12 hours, the poor little snugglebear. I've already switched to the recommended kinds of wet foods and reduced the cats' kibble consumption according to the feline diabetes community wisdom, but not completely removed the dry food yet to avoid any possible backlash.
I'm a bit concerned still, though, because they have been eating much less dry food, and he's been on insulin for several months now.
I can still move on to the next step though, and give him a week or so of testing daily and see if the final removal of kibble does anything in that time.
