Coco - Dental pain causing blood sugar spikes?

[shortbusruss]

First, status update, for those familiar with Coco -

So, wifey and I are back from Thailand! Coco seems to be doing fine after our coworker watched him for two weeks. We have an appointment scheduled on February 8th with a highly recommended vet who should be able to take care of his dental issues. The first appointment is for a consultation with this practice's actual feline diabetes specialist, who wants to examine him to clarify what his anesthesia will need to look like to perform a teeth cleaning, and any necessary tooth extraction. We are going to see if there is a possibility of them removing a facial growth (already verified non-malignant by another vet) while he is under... It is similar to that stuff "Dr. Pimple Popper" removes on her show. It is about the size of a average male thumb from tip to first knuckle.

Now, as to title... Anyone had any experience with dental pain causing blood sugar spikes (due to stress, I assume?), and seen their cat's numbers become a lot easier to deal with once they got their cat's dental issues remedied? The reason I ask, is once we got back from vacation, we had some leftover liquid pain medication that our babysitter did not use, and once we gave it to him this morning, he seemed much more relaxed, begged less for food this morning, took longer to eat his same portion of food, and his blood sugar looked a lot better at +5 today. Sorry in advance that his numbers are rather sparse in his spreadsheet... The cat sitter was really only able to test AM/PM, and I was severely sick from a stomach bug the weekend we got back. I am going to see if we can do a 12 hour testing cycle maybe this Saturday. Wife is currently experiencing testing fatigue, and I work nights.. I tested him today at +5, and then had to go to bed. I will try to impress upon her the need to do a few more tests closer together if he has a number sub-100, but she can be rather.. Obstinate.

Just looking for member experience with blood sugar numbers being affected by dental pain prior to dental problems getting taken care of, and how those numbers changed after the issues were remedied.

 

[Marje and Gracie]

First, status update, for those familiar with Coco -

So, wifey and I are back from Thailand! Coco seems to be doing fine after our coworker watched him for two weeks. We have an appointment scheduled on February 8th with a highly recommended vet who should be able to take care of his dental issues. The first appointment is for a consultation with this practice's actual feline diabetes specialist, who wants to examine him to clarify what his anesthesia will need to look like to perform a teeth cleaning, and any necessary tooth extraction. We are going to see if there is a possibility of them removing a facial growth (already verified non-malignant by another vet) while he is under... It is similar to that stuff "Dr. Pimple Popper" removes on her show. It is about the size of a average male thumb from tip to first knuckle.

Now, as to title... Anyone had any experience with dental pain causing blood sugar spikes (due to stress, I assume?), and seen their cat's numbers become a lot easier to deal with once they got their cat's dental issues remedied? The reason I ask, is once we got back from vacation, we had some leftover liquid pain medication that our babysitter did not use, and once we gave it to him this morning, he seemed much more relaxed, begged less for food this morning, took longer to eat his same portion of food, and his blood sugar looked a lot better at +5 today. Sorry in advance that his numbers are rather sparse in his spreadsheet... The cat sitter was really only able to test AM/PM, and I was severely sick from a stomach bug the weekend we got back. I am going to see if we can do a 12 hour testing cycle maybe this Saturday. Wife is currently experiencing testing fatigue, and I work nights.. I tested him today at +5, and then had to go to bed. I will try to impress upon her the need to do a few more tests closer together if he has a number sub-100, but she can be rather.. Obstinate.

Just looking for member experience with blood sugar numbers being affected by dental pain prior to dental problems getting taken care of, and how those numbers changed after the issues were remedied.

While I did not have this occur with Gracie, certainly spin if any kind can raise the BG. And, yes, using a pain med under your vet’s advice, can result in the BG decreasing once the pain is addressed.

You might benefit from this post on dental procedures.