How Was Your Day? Numero Four-o

[Abigail]

I'm not sure about the other stuff but diabetes will mean he will need a shot of insulin everyday I think.

Depends if he's type one or two. Type two is more common in older or overweight people (or dogs). Type one needs daily insulin shots, type two is diet controlled, sometimes together with meds.

I can't see why antibiotics and valium would be prescribed for diabetes. A sure fire way to know if he is diabetic is to test for sugar in the urine.

Valium is used as an anticonvulsant, among other things. This is from drugs.com

In animals, Valium appears to act on parts of the limbic system, the thalamus and hypothalamus, and induces calming effects. Valium, unlike chlorpromazine and reserpine, has no demonstrable peripheral autonomic blocking action, nor does it produce extrapyramidal side effects; however, animals treated with Valium do have a transient ataxia at higher doses. Valium was found to have transient cardiovascular depressor effects in dogs.

Basically it will make him more relaxed but high doses may make him clumsy (ataxia). It can also depress the cardiovascular system (heart), although it will come and go.

It is important that you give the valium at the same time everyday i.e. every twelve or eight hours, depending on the dose. Seizures are caused by neurones in the brain misfiring (sending too many or sending wrong signals to parts of the brain and body). Valium works on receptors in the brain and neurones to calm them down. Suddenly stopping treatment is like letting a junkie go cold turkey (best analogy I could think of)

Unless he has an infection that is causing the seizures (would have to be pretty bad or in his brain/spinal cord to do that) then the antibiotics won't stop the seizures.

High protein levels in the urine are indicative of kidney problems. High protein in the blood can mean a chronic (long term) infection or inflammation.

[Abigail]

Day 3 of waiting for my lover to return a love note .

Who's your lover?

[CrazyLea]

Tristan Gemmill of course .

[Abigail]

Tristan Gemmill of course .

Let us know his reply. Sometimes actors can take a while to reply to fan mail. What did you write in it?

[CrazyLea]

Hahaha I rambled so much .

The first paragraph was about the settling of the argument ..

Second paragraph was about casualty and Adam..

Third paragraph I can't really remember (wish I scanned it before I sent it )

And last sentence was apologising for my scruffy handwriting

Oh and the P.S asked for an autograph

[Abigail]

Settling what argument?

[CrazyLea]

Thought you knew! It was Tizzy (Di Marco) and Kasples idea .. settling how to pronounce Gemmill . He's gonna think I'm a weirdo ain't he .

[Abigail]

I've missed so much. I must have been living on another planet for the past week

[Kirsty :]]

Thankyou so much for all your help everyone
Abigail you're liek a human google... it's brilliant lol
By reading your replies I don' think it's diabetes... I actually think he has Alzheimers (if thats even possible) He jsut seems so disorientated and he's peeing in the house now and again (sorry for the tmi) and he never ever does that... which is what's making me think hes senile or something?
Anyways I'm going to the vets with him Thursday with my Nan to see how he is... I will ask questions because we didn't really find out much today lol

[Abigail]

He may just be weeing in the house because he doesn't have the energy or strength to get up and go outside.

I'm not sure about Alzheimer's and bladder control. It is certainly possible in the latter stages of the disease when the person has no idea who they are or what's happening. I can't remember how old you said he was but when dogs get old things don't work as well as they should do. A bit like humans, arthritis, joint pain, incontinence etc are all signs of getting old.

Disorientation, seizures and bladder control problem all point to something neurological.

I hope you have pet insurance, it could prove to be very costly.

At least my A level in biology is useful for something