Soxtiger
Member Since 2010
Hi everyone,
I haven't posted in a while, didn't want to bore everyone with the same old story.
We've been working on adjusting Sox diet and Insulin and are now injecting 5-6 Units AM & PM (we started with 2 units and made adjustments in regular intervals). Sox BG levels continue to be high, especially morning and night, we often get high 400's or around 550. We've seen improvement tho with levels after we inject insulin around the 4-6hour mark levels decrease to the 300's and as of just 7 days ago we finally had our first 200 number..yeah.
We've seen more of the lower numbers and attribute it to feeding wet food, still RC renal diet. We've also included several of the Friskies foods that have all around 5% Carbs. I've tried the google spreadsheet and it gave me even more gray hairs than I already have. I tried editing it and deleted it all. Re-created another sheet, and it just won't let me edit it. Sorry peeps, I'm sticking with Excel, I know how to maneuver it better and it offers us the extra space we need to keep observations.
I wanted to see what your experience is with your kitties, if they have kidney issues..Recently Sox has had a hard time going #2. He's got arthritis in the lower back, hip area and we've seen him strain quite a few times until we went and released the motherload. Almost appeared as if he was constipated for a bit. We thought it may be the diet change or levels of BG. He's been going, it just varies in size. and big is worrysome as well as none..Well, today he's having problems doing #1..of course Sunday, vet closed and tomorrow is a holiday. It's hot here, he drinks a lot in general due to the kidney disease and the diabetes and now kitty is going every 5min's to relief himself in tiny trickles..over the last 2h's a bit more each time.
It's definetly cause for worry and I want to take him to the vet as soon as possible, could it be kidney stones?
I haven't posted in a while, didn't want to bore everyone with the same old story.
We've been working on adjusting Sox diet and Insulin and are now injecting 5-6 Units AM & PM (we started with 2 units and made adjustments in regular intervals). Sox BG levels continue to be high, especially morning and night, we often get high 400's or around 550. We've seen improvement tho with levels after we inject insulin around the 4-6hour mark levels decrease to the 300's and as of just 7 days ago we finally had our first 200 number..yeah.
We've seen more of the lower numbers and attribute it to feeding wet food, still RC renal diet. We've also included several of the Friskies foods that have all around 5% Carbs. I've tried the google spreadsheet and it gave me even more gray hairs than I already have. I tried editing it and deleted it all. Re-created another sheet, and it just won't let me edit it. Sorry peeps, I'm sticking with Excel, I know how to maneuver it better and it offers us the extra space we need to keep observations.
I wanted to see what your experience is with your kitties, if they have kidney issues..Recently Sox has had a hard time going #2. He's got arthritis in the lower back, hip area and we've seen him strain quite a few times until we went and released the motherload. Almost appeared as if he was constipated for a bit. We thought it may be the diet change or levels of BG. He's been going, it just varies in size. and big is worrysome as well as none..Well, today he's having problems doing #1..of course Sunday, vet closed and tomorrow is a holiday. It's hot here, he drinks a lot in general due to the kidney disease and the diabetes and now kitty is going every 5min's to relief himself in tiny trickles..over the last 2h's a bit more each time.
It's definetly cause for worry and I want to take him to the vet as soon as possible, could it be kidney stones?
