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My Kai, my diabetic dog is really sick. She's in emergency surgery right now. They are not sure what is going on, she has mild pancreatitis, but in doing x-rays her stomach is enlarged, lots of gas, possibly the start of bloat, but her spleen is twisted and they don't know why. They said sometimes it just does that and it could cause discomfort/distress and cause the swallowing of extra air. But surgery, maybe the removal of the spleen, maybe attaching the stomach so it can't flip. She woke up this morning very lethargic and didn't seem like she felt well, then threw up so I rushed her in. The only sure sign of anything was wrong besides today was her needing extra insulin the last few days and an extra 12 units of insulin yesterday. I wondered what was going on. But she was bouncing around and seemingly fine.
 
@Marie 2 do home all's well with your dog. Hugs xxx
 
I felt exactly the same as you when I was diagnosed (3 and a bit years ago). I wanted to know everything all at once and then when I thought I'd got to grips............BOOM!! something else I had to learn. One month in and you're doing grand @Choosehappy and it does get easier to manage. I too try my best to keep in range but have learned to worry less and that's important for my sanity Keep it up
 
I really hope she feels better soon @Marie 2 we have two doggies here and I know how much you will be worrying The vets will look after her
 

Hi,

Sorry to hear about your dog. How old is Kai?
 
Thank you @SueJB hoping for a better day today
 
Morning all,
Nippy here, BG great 4.7 though it's sure to rise just like my weight
 
Thanks everyone for the well wishes.

@Jaylee she is about 7. We got her from a Dobie rescue and she had been severely abused. She had bad stomach issues from the beginning and she has to be on a small dose steroid the rest of her life. I often think that might be what caused her to get diabetes.

She made it through surgery well, her BG’s stayed stable. Good news and maybe bad news. She didn’t need surgery for bloat. She had old scar tissue that adhered and her stomach can’t ever flip. Her spleen was okay too. The vet said she had rounded pieces of something all through the intestines which were inflamed and might have caused the pancreatitis. They think she will be okay. The bad news is they found something weird on her liver and it is being sent for a biopsy.

But she seems to be doing well and they cleared out all the gas and liquids from her stomach that they could.

It sounds like she got hold of something not good for her and I have no idea. But I was really worried about her, but it looks like she will be okay.
 

Hi,

I'm glad they are looking at the liver.. How is the kidney function?
When you said Kia was throwing up. was there a white bile? Or watery yellow white bile?
 

Sending a virtual (((( HUG))))) and crossing everything for your beloved pet X
 
I'm sorry to hear that @CharlieType1Diabetic , hopefully it wasn't too bad of one. It happens, the only good news is now you have had one, you are now more familiar with what one is. But I truly hope it wasn't bad and you are okay.

@Jaylee she had thrown up everything, whole pieces of food from even the night before. She gets a nightly snack and I recognized it completely. Her kidneys are fine, hopefully they stay that way. She was in great health except for the eyelid infection she had 2-4 weeks ago. For her follow up check up for that (just 10 days ago) I had them do blood work and everything was perfect and she was considered in great health. She has had a rough night, her stomach issues have really flared up and they need to put her on more steroids. Someone was with her all night and will be tonight too.

My Bg kept shooting up in the evening until I got the news she was out of surgery and doing well, then the sudden drop. It's like a monitor for your emotions. I expect I'll have some stubborn higher numbers all day today too.
 
@marie2 thanks for the confidence boost.

Anyone got any advice on what to do I was 3.6 two hours ago so i had some carbs and checked 15 mins later was 6.1 and had a snack my monitor said I had 6 units still on board off dinner so I didn’t have any insulin now that I checked 2 hours later I was 18.6 so I had 3.5 unit correction what should I do in the future to stop this spike
 
Hey @CharlieType1Diabetic I am sorry to hear about your hypo

How many grams of carbs are you having to treat it? You may have accidentally had too many carbs to treat it perhaps? So anything under 4 is classed as a hypo, although I absolutely appreciate that everyone and every hypo is different and you may have had a very bad time with this one, 3.5 wouldn’t require tons and tons of carbs to raise you back within the safe zone, unless it’s dropping.

I suffer bad if I go under 4 even only slightly and I treat my hypos with pure orange juice, I too have a quite a lot of hypos at the moment as I am also a newbie and learning. If I am slightly under 4 I will have 100 ml of pure orange juice and then test my bloods 15 mins later and then another
15 mins later just to make sure I’m back within the safe zone and not still dropping or still under 4.

If I am still dropping or at the same I’ll drink another 100ml.

If I am really really low i.e 3-1 (which sadly has happened) I will just drink a full carton of 200ml orange juice to bring it back up and test again in 15 mins. You can also have 4 jelly babies to treat a hypo. It’s your choice and whatever suits you!

But you will get there and you will do this!
 
@CharlieType1Diabetic

@Choosehappy is right in that the amount of carbs could be off. When we go low, sometimes we have an urge to eat the whole refrigerator and it's hard to keep the carbs down to a reasonable number. It's the unknown factor of how low or how bad you are going to feel. And eating too much will be one of the things that just happens sometimes anyways.

But it could also be what you ate. Some carbs absorb faster. Jelly babies and oj work faster, but a cookie some of it might absorb fast, but some will end up absorbing later, hence a spike later.

And it could also be the prior dinner. I'm not sure how long after dinner you dropped and what you ate. But fat delays absorption of carbs, so your dinner insulin might have been kicking in before you digested your carbs, hence the low and then the carbs hit later, so a higher number later. So if you only ate a few carbs to cover the hypo, it could be the absorption of dinner later. Pizza notoriously fits this category.
 
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Hi Marie

With the slow releasing carbs due to fat - as a rule of thumb - how much fat in a food/meal would you generally consider high fat and so bound to create slow releasing carbs?
 
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