Wurly
Member Since 2020
Hi everyone,
Some time ago my 11 years old Tortie Main Coon Calyco started being sick in the mornings bringing up biscuits from the night before, she was also drinking a lot. We new this was wrong and decided to get the carrier box out the garage for the first time in 5 years to get her tested for Hyperthyroidism.
Normal diet through the years of wet food and biscuits with treats at times, cooked fish occasionally.
History - She has never really liked the Vet after one of them lanced a boil too deeply, I did take her once for a Vaccine but she attacked the staff and she has not been back to any Vet since.
She is a nice cat at home and never gets angry with anyone.
She has never suffered any illness over the years and she has always been a strong cat often fighting of foxes in the garden.
We managed to take her to the Vet who along with the nurses managed to take a blood sample.
BG was 20 mmol and Thyroxine was normal. The blood was not sent away for a full analysis which I regret now.
I immediately started reading up (a lot from this forum) and switched her to a low carb diet (under 10 Kcal from Carb. The sickness stopped and she showed more activity during the day, it seemed like we had our cat back.
The next visit 4 weeks later was troublesome as they kept her in all day for Blood and Urine collection, this was a bad idea as she got wound up all day and then the sample was collected. This reading showed BG 22mmol/l and Fructosamine 394 umol/l no Ketones detected which was good.
They have now referred us to a hospital for DM treatment. The trouble is this is not fair on her due to the way she is and we have decided that we cannot put her through the torture that most cats might find bearable. I suspect that the Vet will not be able to treat her anyway.
Her original weight was 6.5kg, she is now maintaining 5kg but I feel I now need to reduce her weight more to try to kick start the normal insulin production.
She has now just started a zero Carb diet which I am going to monitor.
I am going to start to take urine readings and have been massaging her ears in readiness for home testing, at the worst I am hoping to get some blood apart from mine at some point.
She is currently fine in herself, she still goes out night and day and is not drinking loads, although she does seem to be eating more than in the past which is to be expected.
Any assistance or cases of remission or information would be gratefully received.
Is it possible to reverse the DM through diet and monitoring in cats?
Many thanks.
Some time ago my 11 years old Tortie Main Coon Calyco started being sick in the mornings bringing up biscuits from the night before, she was also drinking a lot. We new this was wrong and decided to get the carrier box out the garage for the first time in 5 years to get her tested for Hyperthyroidism.
Normal diet through the years of wet food and biscuits with treats at times, cooked fish occasionally.
History - She has never really liked the Vet after one of them lanced a boil too deeply, I did take her once for a Vaccine but she attacked the staff and she has not been back to any Vet since.
She is a nice cat at home and never gets angry with anyone.
She has never suffered any illness over the years and she has always been a strong cat often fighting of foxes in the garden.
We managed to take her to the Vet who along with the nurses managed to take a blood sample.
BG was 20 mmol and Thyroxine was normal. The blood was not sent away for a full analysis which I regret now.
I immediately started reading up (a lot from this forum) and switched her to a low carb diet (under 10 Kcal from Carb. The sickness stopped and she showed more activity during the day, it seemed like we had our cat back.
The next visit 4 weeks later was troublesome as they kept her in all day for Blood and Urine collection, this was a bad idea as she got wound up all day and then the sample was collected. This reading showed BG 22mmol/l and Fructosamine 394 umol/l no Ketones detected which was good.
They have now referred us to a hospital for DM treatment. The trouble is this is not fair on her due to the way she is and we have decided that we cannot put her through the torture that most cats might find bearable. I suspect that the Vet will not be able to treat her anyway.
Her original weight was 6.5kg, she is now maintaining 5kg but I feel I now need to reduce her weight more to try to kick start the normal insulin production.
She has now just started a zero Carb diet which I am going to monitor.
I am going to start to take urine readings and have been massaging her ears in readiness for home testing, at the worst I am hoping to get some blood apart from mine at some point.
She is currently fine in herself, she still goes out night and day and is not drinking loads, although she does seem to be eating more than in the past which is to be expected.
Any assistance or cases of remission or information would be gratefully received.
Is it possible to reverse the DM through diet and monitoring in cats?
Many thanks.



