New Member 4/22/26 lost and overwhelmed

So happy I found a community of knowledge. My kitty Simba 7 years orange tabby who never missed a meal in his life stopped eating and hiding. Rushed to ER and spent several days in the hospital. Diagnosed 4/7. We got a 30 min lesson form vet and sent home giving I guess I see folks calling it Sub-Q, new food to be on for life, syringes to force feed, appetite enhancing one liquid and one to put on his ear and liver pills. They started him on .2 Vetinsulin, every 12 hours and force fed him everyday and did the Sub-Q he had a curve week later and increased to .3 two times a day. He is finally eating a little by himself and had another curve today, supposed to go back and learn the whole home test process. Just reading a lot of info here and am hoping I can do all this. I guess I need a spreadsheet and learn to test next thing. He doesn’t like the wet food the vet loaded us up on Purina Pro Plan dietetic management wet and dry. And suggested our other 3 cats go in it. Thanks for any help.

Hi and welcome to the forum to you and Simba.
Did Simba have ketones, DKA or pancreatitis at diagnosis? Sounds like you’ve both had a rough time but glad you have found us.
Yes please get a spreadsheet set up and if you can hometesting the BGs that would be great. You can get a ReliOn premier meter from Walmart cheaply as well as the test strips, and some cotton balls to hold behind the ear to test. We can show you how to test.
You don’t need prescription food. Fancy feast low carb cans are fine. I’ll give you a link if you tell me which country you live in.

Don’t let the vet talk you into an alphatrak pet meter. A human meter is just as good and much much cheaper to run.
Bron