Momuv3princesses
Member Since 2024
Hello. I am a new member but I have done a bunch of reading in the boards. We have Massey, an almost 7 y.o., 16 lb. (previously up to 22lbs but have been working to get her weight down for a while) female. For most of her years she has been a dry Fancy Feast free feeder with way too many treats. My husband’s loves to feed and hates to see them beg. Years ago I would get upset and say we needed to do something before this day came because we have been here before with another fur baby. Anyway, her personality is much different than my orange male diabetic fur boy. And even with his docile personality I still felt like the diabetic experience was traumatic for us both. All that to say that when it hit us in the face that Massey is diabetic, I immediately started researching natural remedies. I cannot imagine taking her to the vet and doing everything down that path. I found her something called blood sugar gold and started to work at her diet. She has been very very hesitant about canned or homemade wet food. So a friend suggested freeze dried. She loves it so I decided to try this as the interim food (not rehydrated because she will not eat it that way yet). In about a week’s time we added a “slightly better” dry food and then the freeze dried (a mix of stella and chewy’s and instinct). Then after a week went to all freeze dried (about 4 days ago). So this whole process has been about 10-11 days. I have also been using the blood sugar gold like insulin. I take her blood sugars right before I give her the blood sugar gold, wait 20 min, feed, and then take it an hour and a half later. It has been sporadic but helping bring it down by up to 100 points. Her numbers have been as high as 360 sometimes, as low as 180, and usually low 300s/high 200s before eating and lower 200s after the hour and a half. She is eating 2x a day and her BS seemed better in the morning if she had food overnight. I did get NHV mellit to try in place of the blood sugar gold but have not yet because 2 days ago she only had small 6 hard turds outside the box and we suspected constipation. I let it go the rest of that day. Yesterday I did some research and decided to give her some MiraLAX. I had read .5 tsp for her weight (she may not have gotten all of that because there was some left behind and I realize now I should have started her at .25). I did that 2x yesterday. Overnight she was struggling to push and she threw up after eating what was in her dish. She was pushing out some liquid stool before finally passing formed, harder turds. It was a decent amount. Then she also left a soft pile in the litter box. She is still walking around and pushing sometimes and getting small amounts of liquid stool out. And twice since getting the bigger stool out she has thrown up small amounts clear foamy stuff. She isn’t quite herself but she does brrr at us and purr if we touch her and is not lethargic or in distress. I know I am probably going to get eaten alive for not taking her to the vet for all this but I am so hesitant. I know it will be traumatic for her and me. Plus financially it will be very stressful. I felt like her BS numbers were getting somewhere. But now this. I know my vet won’t support natural medicine. I have done much much research on it and because of it I still have my black and white boy who will be 6 this year and was not to live until a year old (he had 2 major surgeries at a vet specialist to remove an atypical polyp in his nose that were not successful and grew back both times, he has brittle bone disease with no true bone according to the specialist, and scoliosis. I am just adding this to say that I tend to do tons of research on more natural options and believe in them because I would not have my Scout without them). I am not 100% dead set against taking Massey to the vet in time if I don’t feel like I am making progress with her sugars. But I am really torn right now between continuing the battle and caving and taking her because of the constipation then of course the vet with address the diabetes. The thought causes me an extreme amount of stress so I don’t know what to do. But how long should it take her to recover from this constipation? I think I am most concerned with dehydration because she was able to push out a reasonable amount of stool. Any suggestions? Please don’t eat me alive. (((We have had a traumatic 3+ years after helping to care for and losing my dad to cancer, helping my mom since his passing, my FIL also being diagnosed with cancer right after my dad passing, my MiL having a respiratory event and being on a vent for 3.5 mths, in a facility an hour awayand then her passing, caring for my FIL during a cancer reoccurrence… plus trying to homeschool/raise my kids.)))
