Jill & Bella
Member Since 2021
Hello Everyone. I just found your forum today and what a fabulous resource!
My kitty, Bella, was diagnosed with diabetes at the beginning of August. Her glucose reading was about 368 and she had sugar in her urine. She is 10 years old and has just gained 2 lbs so she weights about 15 lbs.
She had 4 diabetic curves done trying to figure out her correct dosage. She started at 1 unit of Vetsulin and was moved up to 2 and then 3 twice a day. I have been through several foods both wet and dry and finally settled on Dr. Elsey's Clean Protein Chicken dry and Smalls wet. Both the dry and the wet are under 5 grams of carbs. I just read the food post so will work on limiting dry and moving toward more wet.
We thought she was in remission after her 3rd curve, and then again after this 4th curve last Thursday (3 days ago). Then at the end of this last curve, her final measurement at 5:30pm was 43 (from 3 units of Vetsulin given at 8am) and I was told to stay off insulin until after her glucose reading is 200 and then give 2 units. And give her food when we get home. She was back over 200 that night so I gave her the 2 units.
Vet put a freestyle libre on her (after Thursday's 4th curve) because I have been unable to do home glucose testing. Yes, I have tried to do home testing but she was squirmy and ran away to hide. Then when I needed to give insulin, I had to chase her down. She just hated to see me coming. That was not good so the vet and I decided that giving the insulin was most important and I gave up trying to get home measurements. Thus the freestyle.
So late night, I woke up at 1:30am and Bella was in my room. I scanned her (yes I am obsessed with the freestyle) and got a glucose reading of 63. And it looks like it had been lower (in the 40s) and had come back up to 63 based on the graph the freestyle creates. I immediately gave her some Temptations cat treats. I sat up for an hour with her and scanned twice until it was 88, then I went back to bed. This morning I backed off of the 2 units and gave 1.75. According to the freestyle graph, it looks like she was again below 50 this morning from about 9:30am to noon.
I am scared to give her insulin tonight because I don't want her to get hypoglycemic when I am asleep.
And both yesterday and today she is shaking her front paws like they are wet. I am worried about neuropathy. This shaking of paws just started yesterday evening so I might have a chance to reverse whatever it is. Fingers crossed.
I have decided not to give any insulin tonight and just wait it see how her glucose goes for 24 hours. It would be time for her dose right about now and yes, I am having doubts. But I have read that high is better than low and her glucose in the 40's really scares me.
That is our story so far.... I look forward to interacting with all of you on Facebook and the forum.
Jill & Bella
My kitty, Bella, was diagnosed with diabetes at the beginning of August. Her glucose reading was about 368 and she had sugar in her urine. She is 10 years old and has just gained 2 lbs so she weights about 15 lbs.
She had 4 diabetic curves done trying to figure out her correct dosage. She started at 1 unit of Vetsulin and was moved up to 2 and then 3 twice a day. I have been through several foods both wet and dry and finally settled on Dr. Elsey's Clean Protein Chicken dry and Smalls wet. Both the dry and the wet are under 5 grams of carbs. I just read the food post so will work on limiting dry and moving toward more wet.
We thought she was in remission after her 3rd curve, and then again after this 4th curve last Thursday (3 days ago). Then at the end of this last curve, her final measurement at 5:30pm was 43 (from 3 units of Vetsulin given at 8am) and I was told to stay off insulin until after her glucose reading is 200 and then give 2 units. And give her food when we get home. She was back over 200 that night so I gave her the 2 units.
Vet put a freestyle libre on her (after Thursday's 4th curve) because I have been unable to do home glucose testing. Yes, I have tried to do home testing but she was squirmy and ran away to hide. Then when I needed to give insulin, I had to chase her down. She just hated to see me coming. That was not good so the vet and I decided that giving the insulin was most important and I gave up trying to get home measurements. Thus the freestyle.
So late night, I woke up at 1:30am and Bella was in my room. I scanned her (yes I am obsessed with the freestyle) and got a glucose reading of 63. And it looks like it had been lower (in the 40s) and had come back up to 63 based on the graph the freestyle creates. I immediately gave her some Temptations cat treats. I sat up for an hour with her and scanned twice until it was 88, then I went back to bed. This morning I backed off of the 2 units and gave 1.75. According to the freestyle graph, it looks like she was again below 50 this morning from about 9:30am to noon.
I am scared to give her insulin tonight because I don't want her to get hypoglycemic when I am asleep.
And both yesterday and today she is shaking her front paws like they are wet. I am worried about neuropathy. This shaking of paws just started yesterday evening so I might have a chance to reverse whatever it is. Fingers crossed.
I have decided not to give any insulin tonight and just wait it see how her glucose goes for 24 hours. It would be time for her dose right about now and yes, I am having doubts. But I have read that high is better than low and her glucose in the 40's really scares me.
That is our story so far.... I look forward to interacting with all of you on Facebook and the forum.
Jill & Bella
