Hi Amber,
I am sorry I am running around posting in the middle of the night, but I just wanted to give you a (((hug))) and a little helpful hint. If you meet resistance, look at your vet, do a little wink if you can do it without looking like you're hitting on her/him, and say, "Could you humor me on this?" Rationally speaking, you ARE paying for it, you DO own the cat, and you ARE in charge of the cat's treatment.
I met with weak resistance from my vet. She felt he was eating too much, and he was.. but he was skeletal when I adopted him and I was mid-weight-gain mode, feeding him incredible amounts of food to help his health improve. I knew immediately he was an acro, but it took me a couple months of impatience to explain to my vettybean exactly WHY I thought he was an acro. Her words? "I don't know... acro is so rare...." I whipped out the just-humor-me line and she did and the rest is history. Leo is her first acrocat and she's absorbed and learned SO much about acro now.. she's a phenomenal lady, and I would never have known she could be so wonderful without exercising that line. I am the least patient person I know, so it was hard! LOL
I am sure you have seen that there are many of us here with acrocats and IAA cats and a Cushing's cat too. I am hoping you are seeing that we have relied heavily on each other for the vast amount of information we have collected, sorted and gleaned answers with.. and we have happy and healthy high dose cats thanks to that. The veterinary community is ridiculously behind on knowledge in regards to high dose conditions, literally prehistoric. Acromegaly is thought to affect 1 in 3 diabetic cats, and you can challenge your vet to investigate the VIN to back that quote up. :smile:
Looking forward to hearing how it goes!!
..C
