Drew Morey
Member Since 2021
I'd be grateful to learn how others are managing the unpredictable BG roller coaster. Gary is a 14 year old male tabby who is the quiet, understated Alpha over our two younger cats, Jazz and Rosie. He loves to be spun around and tickled unpredictably on our office chair. He actually considers this to be his inalienable right, and I suppose he has a point.
We've been managing his diabetes for more than 2 years, and though we have been largely successful, it has been a continuous game of catch up, trying to find the balance point. We never seem to 'arrive' at the sweet spot. Is this normal for everyone else?
I should clarify here that our resources are limited, and testing is something we can afford to do only sparingly.
The highest dose we've ever had him on is 2 units (.05ml), and for quite a while we were at just half a unit (.0125ml). We were most recently dosing him at at 1.25 units, and yesterday he exhibited the dreaded signs of a crash - staggering and disorientation. His BG had dropped to 30.6 (1.7 on our Alpha Trak). Now I have him back down to .75 unit.
There really is no middle ground with Gary, at least not for very long. I predict that the drinking / urine will skyrocket again very shortly. I like to joke that we could build our own pyramid from the gigantic blocks of litter that we discard most days, as we continue to play catch up, trying to give him just enough insulin to keep him healthy without 'flying too close to the sun' and triggering the next crash.
I should conclude by clarifying that we have had him exclusively on Fancy Feast Pate (we're in Canada - so it's the nutritional equivalent of your 'Classic' in the US). This is all that we allow him to eat, and he gets it in in set amounts at regular meal times.
We've been managing his diabetes for more than 2 years, and though we have been largely successful, it has been a continuous game of catch up, trying to find the balance point. We never seem to 'arrive' at the sweet spot. Is this normal for everyone else?
I should clarify here that our resources are limited, and testing is something we can afford to do only sparingly.
The highest dose we've ever had him on is 2 units (.05ml), and for quite a while we were at just half a unit (.0125ml). We were most recently dosing him at at 1.25 units, and yesterday he exhibited the dreaded signs of a crash - staggering and disorientation. His BG had dropped to 30.6 (1.7 on our Alpha Trak). Now I have him back down to .75 unit.
There really is no middle ground with Gary, at least not for very long. I predict that the drinking / urine will skyrocket again very shortly. I like to joke that we could build our own pyramid from the gigantic blocks of litter that we discard most days, as we continue to play catch up, trying to give him just enough insulin to keep him healthy without 'flying too close to the sun' and triggering the next crash.
I should conclude by clarifying that we have had him exclusively on Fancy Feast Pate (we're in Canada - so it's the nutritional equivalent of your 'Classic' in the US). This is all that we allow him to eat, and he gets it in in set amounts at regular meal times.
