Charlotte + Dino Baby
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Posting for my elderly mother’s cat. I’m going to try to make a long story short:
My mom’s cat was diagnosed with diabetes with BG at the vet of over 600 a few months ago. I encouraged my mom to try to manage it rather than having him put down because I managed my own cat for nearly 4 years before she passed away of kidney related issues. But I digress. I put my moms cat on fancy feast pates as soon as she got his diagnosis, and when they went back for the appointment to get prescribed insulin the switch to low carb food alone had him into the 250 range. They prescribed 1 unit of lantus twice a day and told her she didn’t need to test him but to come back for a curve in 4 weeks. I thought that was ridiculous but she has mobility issues and can’t test, so I was testing him once a week when I’m in her city. His readings were going down each week, eventually week 3 his post meal/pre shot reading was 75 with a relion prime. Great I thought, this looks like remission. We took him off insulin and I drove an hour out to her place a few times that week and his readings were always around or below 100. From there I resumed testing him once a week and those low readings continued. Around 100 after a meal and around 75 fasted.
On Tuesday when I was there his reading was 57 about 3 hours after a meal and she said he had been seeming very lethargic. I had never heard of this happening (going so low with no insulin given) but told her maybe we can switch him to friskies or something with a slightly higher carb count but that I wanted to reach out to this community for guidance.
I sent my husband out to test Oliver this morning and his BG was 75 about 3 hours after a meal. He’s still on very low carb fancy feast pates right now. Apologies that this is so long but I wanted to give you all the background as I’m trying to help her manage this from afar. He’s an amazing cat and my toddler adores him so I’m trying my best to keep him around!
My mom’s cat was diagnosed with diabetes with BG at the vet of over 600 a few months ago. I encouraged my mom to try to manage it rather than having him put down because I managed my own cat for nearly 4 years before she passed away of kidney related issues. But I digress. I put my moms cat on fancy feast pates as soon as she got his diagnosis, and when they went back for the appointment to get prescribed insulin the switch to low carb food alone had him into the 250 range. They prescribed 1 unit of lantus twice a day and told her she didn’t need to test him but to come back for a curve in 4 weeks. I thought that was ridiculous but she has mobility issues and can’t test, so I was testing him once a week when I’m in her city. His readings were going down each week, eventually week 3 his post meal/pre shot reading was 75 with a relion prime. Great I thought, this looks like remission. We took him off insulin and I drove an hour out to her place a few times that week and his readings were always around or below 100. From there I resumed testing him once a week and those low readings continued. Around 100 after a meal and around 75 fasted.
On Tuesday when I was there his reading was 57 about 3 hours after a meal and she said he had been seeming very lethargic. I had never heard of this happening (going so low with no insulin given) but told her maybe we can switch him to friskies or something with a slightly higher carb count but that I wanted to reach out to this community for guidance.
I sent my husband out to test Oliver this morning and his BG was 75 about 3 hours after a meal. He’s still on very low carb fancy feast pates right now. Apologies that this is so long but I wanted to give you all the background as I’m trying to help her manage this from afar. He’s an amazing cat and my toddler adores him so I’m trying my best to keep him around!
