LauraMcK
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Hi All, I'm Laura and Finn is my recently diagnosed sugar baby. I'm glad to have found this forum and have been reading through some posts and getting my feet wet but wanted to wait until I had some numbers before posting. I think I've finally figured out the signature and spreadsheet today so here we go.
Finn has a history of urinary blockages (he has had two, the last October 2016). He was eating prescription urinary s/o dry food and Hills Science urinary wet. He was diagnosed diabetic after I had taken him to the vet for wheezing and they wanted to give him steroids but checked his blood glucose first to ensure it was not high. It was high and they confirmed with fucosamine testing and diagnosed him with diabetes. The vet was not able to do an insulin curve (he would not allow them to touch him after the first check). He had originally been on 2 units prozinc but after the failed curve (10 days later and still had not successfully changed his diet at this point) they upped it to 3 units. The vet had prescribed Royal Canin glycobalance dry and Purina DM wet. While he was never lethargic, he was generally not acting himself. I found the facebook group then this forum and decided to step back and start over. Ordered the alphatrak dropped the prozinc to 1 unit with pre-shot testing and he's now eating mostly wellness core with some (greatly reduced from what he was used to) Dr. Elsey's dry.
Some things to understand about my Finn - Finn was from a litter of kittens abandoned outside an apartment complex and he was the last of his litter to be captured. He was about 4-6 months old when I adopted him and had not really been socialized up until that point. I say this because there are limitations in how much I can handle him. Even after nearly 7 years, I am still the only person he allows to pet him and while I can pick him up he doesn't appreciate it and since his diagnosis he has been very skeptical of me coming near him. I can get pre-shot blood glucose but if I try to do too much he'll go into hiding (and also start hissing/growling/ and trying to bite me which he never did before). Suffice it to say while I appreciate all the cats that come and politely wait for testing and injection that is not my cat and I really doubt it ever will be but do hope it will get easier than its been.
Sorry for the long preamble but advice from other semi-feral cat parents is particularly appreciated. He doesn't react to feliway, some improvement with the Jackson Galaxy scaredy cat. He was very food motivated but I have not found a compliant treat he responds to yet (tried various dehydrated treats but he's not interested) I can usually entice him out of hiding at shot time with the Dr. Elsey's dry food.
My main question right now is how do I know if I should up his dose when I cannot really do a curve. His numbers have been pretty steady in the 200s in the morning and low 300s in the PMPS. I've tried to take some midday meters but they're not really significantly lower than AMPS. Should I go up to 2 units?
Finn has a history of urinary blockages (he has had two, the last October 2016). He was eating prescription urinary s/o dry food and Hills Science urinary wet. He was diagnosed diabetic after I had taken him to the vet for wheezing and they wanted to give him steroids but checked his blood glucose first to ensure it was not high. It was high and they confirmed with fucosamine testing and diagnosed him with diabetes. The vet was not able to do an insulin curve (he would not allow them to touch him after the first check). He had originally been on 2 units prozinc but after the failed curve (10 days later and still had not successfully changed his diet at this point) they upped it to 3 units. The vet had prescribed Royal Canin glycobalance dry and Purina DM wet. While he was never lethargic, he was generally not acting himself. I found the facebook group then this forum and decided to step back and start over. Ordered the alphatrak dropped the prozinc to 1 unit with pre-shot testing and he's now eating mostly wellness core with some (greatly reduced from what he was used to) Dr. Elsey's dry.
Some things to understand about my Finn - Finn was from a litter of kittens abandoned outside an apartment complex and he was the last of his litter to be captured. He was about 4-6 months old when I adopted him and had not really been socialized up until that point. I say this because there are limitations in how much I can handle him. Even after nearly 7 years, I am still the only person he allows to pet him and while I can pick him up he doesn't appreciate it and since his diagnosis he has been very skeptical of me coming near him. I can get pre-shot blood glucose but if I try to do too much he'll go into hiding (and also start hissing/growling/ and trying to bite me which he never did before). Suffice it to say while I appreciate all the cats that come and politely wait for testing and injection that is not my cat and I really doubt it ever will be but do hope it will get easier than its been.
Sorry for the long preamble but advice from other semi-feral cat parents is particularly appreciated. He doesn't react to feliway, some improvement with the Jackson Galaxy scaredy cat. He was very food motivated but I have not found a compliant treat he responds to yet (tried various dehydrated treats but he's not interested) I can usually entice him out of hiding at shot time with the Dr. Elsey's dry food.
My main question right now is how do I know if I should up his dose when I cannot really do a curve. His numbers have been pretty steady in the 200s in the morning and low 300s in the PMPS. I've tried to take some midday meters but they're not really significantly lower than AMPS. Should I go up to 2 units?
