Aureonitens
Member Since 2024
Hi there,
I’m Aureonitens and own two kitties (littermates) who will be eight years old in about a month: Pumpkin and Pepper.
Both cats had their senior bloodwork and urinalysis on February 1st, and Pumpkin’s came back with some elevated glucose levels. For this first test, they had to keep her for a few hours as they couldn’t find any urine when they first tried to collect. For reference, she has had stress hyperglycemia recorded by another vet before when she was six months old, but has never had any clinical diabetes symptoms. During this visit, she weighed 11.2 lbs and had a BCS of 6. These were her results: https://imgur.com/a/gZVrP9e (261 mg/dl blood glucose and a +1 strip reading for glucose in urine).
The vet was concerned about her glucose levels and asked us to bring her in for retesting four weeks later, which we did; I also called back and specifically requested that they run her fructosamine levels. These were her results this last time, when she weighed 10.8 lbs (we have adjusted her food intake to try and get her to lose a little weight). She did not have to stay at the vet’s this time as she had urine in her bladder, and samples were taken approximately four to five hours after she had last eaten. https://imgur.com/a/DMdPEeX (250 mg/dl blood glucose, TRACE strip reading for glucose in urine, fructosamine level well within the reference interval).
The vet called us back and said he still can’t be sure she isn’t in a pre diabetic state (he stated he had only seen stress hyperglycemia levels up to 200 mg/dl, although a quick literature search seems to state they can exceed that by a lot) and recommended we switch her to Hills GlucoSupport to head off any problems down the road. He was not concerned with any of her other results. We have ordered both dry and wet prescription food, although from what I am seeing here an all wet diet may be advisable for cats anyways (anyone have any anecdotal experience on tartar buildup with only wet food?). I guess my question is where do I go from here? Should I get a blood glucose monitor and test her levels at home? Any insight would be very welcome. Thank you so much!
I’m Aureonitens and own two kitties (littermates) who will be eight years old in about a month: Pumpkin and Pepper.
Both cats had their senior bloodwork and urinalysis on February 1st, and Pumpkin’s came back with some elevated glucose levels. For this first test, they had to keep her for a few hours as they couldn’t find any urine when they first tried to collect. For reference, she has had stress hyperglycemia recorded by another vet before when she was six months old, but has never had any clinical diabetes symptoms. During this visit, she weighed 11.2 lbs and had a BCS of 6. These were her results: https://imgur.com/a/gZVrP9e (261 mg/dl blood glucose and a +1 strip reading for glucose in urine).
The vet was concerned about her glucose levels and asked us to bring her in for retesting four weeks later, which we did; I also called back and specifically requested that they run her fructosamine levels. These were her results this last time, when she weighed 10.8 lbs (we have adjusted her food intake to try and get her to lose a little weight). She did not have to stay at the vet’s this time as she had urine in her bladder, and samples were taken approximately four to five hours after she had last eaten. https://imgur.com/a/DMdPEeX (250 mg/dl blood glucose, TRACE strip reading for glucose in urine, fructosamine level well within the reference interval).
The vet called us back and said he still can’t be sure she isn’t in a pre diabetic state (he stated he had only seen stress hyperglycemia levels up to 200 mg/dl, although a quick literature search seems to state they can exceed that by a lot) and recommended we switch her to Hills GlucoSupport to head off any problems down the road. He was not concerned with any of her other results. We have ordered both dry and wet prescription food, although from what I am seeing here an all wet diet may be advisable for cats anyways (anyone have any anecdotal experience on tartar buildup with only wet food?). I guess my question is where do I go from here? Should I get a blood glucose monitor and test her levels at home? Any insight would be very welcome. Thank you so much!
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