Joy W
Member Since 2021
How has it been 2 weeks already? There is just so much going on. So much for every day (screams internally).
Since I was here last, Minerva has improved in leaps and bounds, mostly. For a couple of weeks it was 2 steps forward 1 back, but now it is 5 or 6 forward, one back. Adding Mirtazapine was the winner, even though her behaviour suggested that she was hungry and I would have thought that cerenia was enough. We had progressively improving days and then she ate 2 days worth in one day! Must have been making up for lost time. She lapsed a little after about 5 days drug free, and a single dose of each has kept her going for nearly a week, although we are currently eyeing up another dose of each.
Now to try to get a better grip on her sugars, which continue to run higher than they did before this flare. We are still not actively fasting her for 2 hours for each preshot, I wanted her to get used to her hunger stimuli so didn't want to stop her instinct to eat, plus her smorgasboard doesn't fit in the feeder!
I had intentions of doing a really decent curve Sunday just gone, which was my first opportunity in 3 weeks which made it the first opportunity since we got her home from the vet and started her meds, and I just really sucked at it. I kept missing the time! I normally set a series of alarms but didn't and we had a guest and I just did a really utterly terrible job of her curve. I'm devastated as it is a fortnight from that curve until my next opportunity.
Based on that awful data I still think that going back to 1.5 would be good for her, but would appreciate any thoughts. That was the dose she was on at the very that saw her go to a 2.8 (50) preshot and who knows what her low was, but she has never run this high before - even though I know not all of her preshots are properly fasted, even the ones I am pretty confident she has not eaten are running at 18-19, not her old sub 16s. But I am a bit worried about this increase without the data to back it up.
She is eating far more raw now than she was before her admittance - there are very few low-carb wet brands here in NZ and she must have developed an aversion for Fancy Feast as she is not having it now, and she never liked the others. I know some people have found a more raw diet results in higher sugars. The increased sugars means she is peeing so much more as well. I am really keen to bring this down (but worried the vet will be horrified haha).
As always, my huge thanks to everyone who has kindly helped me over the last few weeks, despite my poor ability to post daily (it is nearly midnight here and my partner has got mad at me staying up to post this, but otherwise it is yet another day gone). Everyone's advice is very much appreciated.
https://felinediabetes.com/FDMB/thr...ng-serious-eating-issues.266043/#post-2978408
Since I was here last, Minerva has improved in leaps and bounds, mostly. For a couple of weeks it was 2 steps forward 1 back, but now it is 5 or 6 forward, one back. Adding Mirtazapine was the winner, even though her behaviour suggested that she was hungry and I would have thought that cerenia was enough. We had progressively improving days and then she ate 2 days worth in one day! Must have been making up for lost time. She lapsed a little after about 5 days drug free, and a single dose of each has kept her going for nearly a week, although we are currently eyeing up another dose of each.
Now to try to get a better grip on her sugars, which continue to run higher than they did before this flare. We are still not actively fasting her for 2 hours for each preshot, I wanted her to get used to her hunger stimuli so didn't want to stop her instinct to eat, plus her smorgasboard doesn't fit in the feeder!
I had intentions of doing a really decent curve Sunday just gone, which was my first opportunity in 3 weeks which made it the first opportunity since we got her home from the vet and started her meds, and I just really sucked at it. I kept missing the time! I normally set a series of alarms but didn't and we had a guest and I just did a really utterly terrible job of her curve. I'm devastated as it is a fortnight from that curve until my next opportunity.
Based on that awful data I still think that going back to 1.5 would be good for her, but would appreciate any thoughts. That was the dose she was on at the very that saw her go to a 2.8 (50) preshot and who knows what her low was, but she has never run this high before - even though I know not all of her preshots are properly fasted, even the ones I am pretty confident she has not eaten are running at 18-19, not her old sub 16s. But I am a bit worried about this increase without the data to back it up.
She is eating far more raw now than she was before her admittance - there are very few low-carb wet brands here in NZ and she must have developed an aversion for Fancy Feast as she is not having it now, and she never liked the others. I know some people have found a more raw diet results in higher sugars. The increased sugars means she is peeing so much more as well. I am really keen to bring this down (but worried the vet will be horrified haha).
As always, my huge thanks to everyone who has kindly helped me over the last few weeks, despite my poor ability to post daily (it is nearly midnight here and my partner has got mad at me staying up to post this, but otherwise it is yet another day gone). Everyone's advice is very much appreciated.
https://felinediabetes.com/FDMB/thr...ng-serious-eating-issues.266043/#post-2978408
Hopefully my ability to function as a human will also improve as I travel less!