While I can't blame all of the horrible December numbers on herpes, I do think that's at least part of the problem. Within the last couple days, the snorting has started. And like everything else that goes wrong, this is my fault, too - I bought a huge bottle of the Lysine I had been using for years, and then noticed that it now contains propylene glycol, which is to be avoided. So, I ordered on line - buy one bottle of lysine, get two free. Only, when the bazillion pills came, they were coated with such a hard covering that my pill chopper could hardly get through them. And, since I have to be able to chop up the mucho expensive Keppra pills for Milk, I made a less-than-executive decision to stop chopping up Lysine for a while. So, Scruffy hasn't had his lysine for probably more than a month, and here I am, having ruined his good numbers and made him miserable besides. I started the lysine again last week, but who knows how long it's going to take to do any good. The moral of the story is, nothing I do ever turns out right.
Aside from the above stupidity, this last two weeks has been horrible for him. I've checked his urine half a dozen times, and it's always been ketone negative (thank God), and 1/2% glucose. The average on his meter is up more than 150 points for the 7 and 14 day averages from what it had been. Every time I turn around, he's in the 400's. He's dropped to sub-40 numbers on both .5 and .75 units. I don't know where to go with all this. I have been debating taking him to the vet, but that's such an ordeal for all of us that I've been putting it off. This is so discouraging; I'd actually gotten used to those wonderful numbers from last month - not so obsessive about testing, and not worrying about when I had to go out, and sleeping....... Not no more.
Poor Scruffy. I've always told him that he'd have been so much smarter to have wandered into someone else's sister's garage.
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