Hello, Luci cat just diagnosed as diabetic

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Tanya and Ducia said:
Hello,

I am sorry no one got back to you earlier... I use different type of insulin so cannot give you dose advise but the General approach at the beginning is not give a dose if the human meter reads below 200 - good call skipping!

A tip: You can can get more attention to your posts if you open a new thread and put your question in the subject line. For example "11/07 Lucy pre-shot (called here AM PS or PMPS) is 195. Do I give her insulin?" - and choose the question mark as the prefix from the drop down list on the left of the subject/title line. This was people will know an answer is needed. It best to post for dosing advise on the Novolin sub-forum (click here)- people who actually use it can help better. This forum has better traffic, though.

Great job starting the spreadsheet - an invaluable tool in assessing the dosage requirements! If you took 3 tests in a row last night which read 191-169-178 enter them all in to one cell. It will take off the colored back ground - I can tell you later how to fix the background color - but this way the advisers will understand that tests were taken one after the other and NOT 1 hour apart from one another as it appears now in your SS. Does it make sense?

These below 200 numbers are so nice! And without insulin!!:woot::) I wish my cat has more of these... I read you r intro post - how dare your vet to suggest such a thing!?:mad: I am happy you didn't listen to that schmuck.

If you have any questions at all please post them here as a new thread or open a new thread on the Novolin sub-forum.

Wishing the very best to you and beautiful Lucy!
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Luci and I send you much love for your kind direction/guidance today. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that indeed her diet and exercise program are going to help slim her down a tad (she's 11 pounds)...and will help get and keep that BG under control as well. It works for us humans, why not for cats?
In the meantime I'll read up on Novolin - just in case the numbers go up and she does not respond to the high protein-low carb diet. :kiss::kiss::kiss:
 
JanetNJ said:
This early in the game is best to skip under 200 until you have a better understanding of how your cat reacts to insulin. :) I have a feeling your cat won't take long to be diet controlled. :)
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It is clear to me that this group has saved my cats life! I will be looking at your fund raising sites...I cannot begin to express my gratitude to you and this group for all of your efforts, wisdom and kindness. I hope to someday be able to 'pay it forward' and help save the life of someone else's beloved cat!! :kiss::kiss::kiss::bighug::bighug::bighug::bighug:
 
Sue George said:
It is clear to me that this group has saved my cats life! I will be looking at your fund raising sites...I cannot begin to express my gratitude to you and this group for all of your efforts, wisdom and kindness. I hope to someday be able to 'pay it forward' and help save the life of someone else's beloved cat!! :kiss::kiss::kiss::bighug::bighug::bighug::bighug:
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I think all of us here are paying it forward. We all started out here confused, scared, and looking for help. In a few months you will probably be helping others as well.... Offering advice and encouragement.
 
I've just catched your post, and first of all Wellcome!!

Second congratulations on totally ignoring that awful vet, he clearly does not know how to deal with cats in general not only with diabetes, that gas box is really not standard procedure, there are other ways to calm them just a little bit enough to get blood out or do some simple procedures that actually putting them under anestesia

You are doing great on the testing, you've already got a lot of very good tips from very experienced people here, don't stress yourself about starting insulin, with the diet change and her numbers, you can wait a few days till you get a little bit more confortable testing, and you get more information on how she's doing just with her diet change before starting insulin.
 
Hi Sue... For that 266 you got this morning I would say try half of a unit and see where it takes you. If it's not enough then next time you can try 1 unit.
 
Just so everyone will know - we've arrived in Florida - a few days to get settled. Took Luci's BG yesterday morning 3.5 hours after eating her breakfast and her number was 187 - her number keeps sliding down - still we have not given her any insulin. She seems to be feeling well - not drinking a lot of water like before - litter box also has low number of 'balls' to scoop - so she's not peeing a lot either - so much back to normal! So now, should I just continue her all meat/grain free diet and continue to test to see if her numbers are erratic? I'm still nervous about giving her insulin. I've considered ordering the Alphatracker and strips in order to get a better reading. Since we're new to this area (we've only been staying in this area for a couple of years) - we will have to research vets to find the right one - and after that guy we saw in Michigan I'm feeling kinda gun shy about vets. This group seems to know more about feline diabetes and treatment than the vets...

Since the Relion meter is a human meter, am I feeling too confident about her ever lower number?

Thanks for recommendations/advice! :)
 
We have quite a few members in Florida. Maybe if you start a post in the Health Forum and include the city/area you’re in (in the thread title) someone can recommend a vet.
 
You're well on your way and have been given excellent advice! I have nothing too add other than your vet should win an award for Highest Level of Ignorance in Treating Feline Diabetes. o_O:banghead: You've got this! :)
 
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