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Lamanda

Lamanda

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Hello,
Has anyone use acetyl l carnitine as a supplement for your cat to treat nerve damage? My vet has prescribed this for Zach as he now has what the vet believes to be diabetic neuropathy. He gets 3.5U lantus morning and 3U evening. Zach's blood glucose numbers are random and my vet (and myself) isn't comfortable increasing his dose as a method for treating the neuropathy, so he's prescribed this supplement. I'm weary because I can't find much online information about it. Anyone have experience with it?
 
Here is a post on neuropathy, with the types of treatments that have proven to work: Feline Diabetic Neuropathy. In my years here, I have never seen anyone use acetyl l carnitine for neuropathy. But lots of success with methyl B12.

Getting a cat regulated is key to helping with neuropathy. We find that shooting different doses AM and PM will produce wonky numbers, as you have seen. But you would need to test more than you currently have been able to, to try to get him regulated.
 
@Lamanda
I agree you need to start testing more often for both the AM and PM cycles. You need to start getting pre shot tests and I don't see any tests at night after Zach's PMPS tests. You will never know how he is doing if you don't start testing more often to get him
regulated. Following SLGS will tell you when you need to increase or decrease but you need to test more to see this

About the neuropathy
I used to give Tyler
See below
the Vitacost brand another member told me about
Vitamin B-12 Methylcobalamin -- 5000 mcg - 100 Capsules

Same as Zobaline , but the Zobaline is so expensive
This is the same thing and they ship to Canada also
The only difference is the Zobaline has 200 mcgs of folic acid
So I bought the folic acid at the supermarket and crush it up and added it to the Vitacost brand
If you can't find the 200 mcg get the 400 mcg and cut it in half and crush it up and add it, some members didn't even add the folic acid and the neuropathy improved
The Vitacost brand is a capsule so just open it and pour the powder on the wet food
Has no taste, no need to crush it up, I still give it to Tyler every now and then and he has never tasted it in his food , I always add water to his food and just stir up the methyl B-12 good
I switched to the vitacost brand because the zobaline was too expensive,
Even though the vitacost brand is 5000 mcgs and the zobaline is 3000 mcgs
What they don't need they will pee out because it's water soluble.

The Zobaline is expensive for 60 pills, 30.00 some other places want 33.00
I used to use the Zobaline when I joined, then a member told me about the Vitacost brand .

It took about 2 months for Tyler to get back to walking normal, jumping on to the couch, running around
But every few weeks I did see a slight improvement
Some members didn't even add the folic acid to the vitacost brand and it still helped and the neuropathy was gone

https://www.vitacost.com/vitacost-vitamin-b-12-methylcobalamin-5000-mcg-100-capsules-6

14.49 for 100 capsules
 
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