John & Henry
Member Since 2022
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Henry spent last cycle in the yellow/pink but has came down again to the greens again this afternoon. The libre alarm went off alerting me he had hit 70 and he was ravenously hungry and scarfed down about 3/4 cups of enzymed food. I'm starting to wonder how well the enzyme pills work vs mixing it in the food. I did the pills on Wednesday and Thursday and last night I wasn't impressed with the color of his poos. They certainly look better than they did, but the color is lighter than I would like, so last night we went back to putting the enzymes in the food instead of using the gel caps.
I wonder what his numbers have in store for us today. I'm going to surmise based on what we've seen with the last 5 cycles we'll see a bunch of green again today. All the good numbers recently make me wonder if now that he's getting nutrients into his system if that isn't somehow starting to get the diabetes under control? It's gotta be hard for a system (body) to function properly with the correct raw materials.
I've been reading academic research papers about EPI and it's extremely rare in cats. So rare there have only ever been about a dozen papers written on the topic and half of those were written in the last 10 years. Just to give you an idea, from March 2008 to January 2010 TAMU (afaik, the only lab to perform EPI testing) received serum from 46,529 cats of which 1,095 tested positive for EPI (2.4%). With an estimated 95 million cats in the US that would mean about .00057% test positive per year. Now granted the number is much higher than that as not everyone will have their cat tested or even be suspected by a vet. But even if the number is 100 times larger, that's still only a .057% chance of getting EPI in any given year. I'm thinking about making a post on the feline health board with everything I've learned so far for when this happens to someone else.
I'm not sure if it's just wishful thinking, but I almost think I can feel a little bit more meat between his ribs than a week ago.
Henry spent last cycle in the yellow/pink but has came down again to the greens again this afternoon. The libre alarm went off alerting me he had hit 70 and he was ravenously hungry and scarfed down about 3/4 cups of enzymed food. I'm starting to wonder how well the enzyme pills work vs mixing it in the food. I did the pills on Wednesday and Thursday and last night I wasn't impressed with the color of his poos. They certainly look better than they did, but the color is lighter than I would like, so last night we went back to putting the enzymes in the food instead of using the gel caps.
I wonder what his numbers have in store for us today. I'm going to surmise based on what we've seen with the last 5 cycles we'll see a bunch of green again today. All the good numbers recently make me wonder if now that he's getting nutrients into his system if that isn't somehow starting to get the diabetes under control? It's gotta be hard for a system (body) to function properly with the correct raw materials.
I've been reading academic research papers about EPI and it's extremely rare in cats. So rare there have only ever been about a dozen papers written on the topic and half of those were written in the last 10 years. Just to give you an idea, from March 2008 to January 2010 TAMU (afaik, the only lab to perform EPI testing) received serum from 46,529 cats of which 1,095 tested positive for EPI (2.4%). With an estimated 95 million cats in the US that would mean about .00057% test positive per year. Now granted the number is much higher than that as not everyone will have their cat tested or even be suspected by a vet. But even if the number is 100 times larger, that's still only a .057% chance of getting EPI in any given year. I'm thinking about making a post on the feline health board with everything I've learned so far for when this happens to someone else.
I'm not sure if it's just wishful thinking, but I almost think I can feel a little bit more meat between his ribs than a week ago.
