Annie breathing weird

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It seems that Annie is having breathing problems maybe?
She's breathing short and fast, which I've never noticed before. I fed them at 3am then came to bed. I was checking emails on my phone and Annie came into the bedroom and tried jumping on the bed twice falling on her back both times. She went and layed on the floor so I went over to see if she was ok. I noticed her breathing then.
She seems fine otherwise. She's alert.
She was crying again after eating. Maybe she's just outta breath from trying to jump, or maybe it's her pills, or maybe she's allergic to the turkey wellness? I don't know!

It's so weird, ever since she's had diabetes, i sometimes worry over little things she does but I also know she's a cat and she just does those things sometimes.

She's dozing on the floor right now, but I can't help but look at her with sadness. She's going through so much right now and yet I still feel helpless. She's my baby!

Sorry for rambling, my head is spinning with all this because it's all I think about now. And I'm super tired

Does anyone else feel this way or am I crazy?

Anyway, I think she's fine right now, she's sprawled on the carpet sleeping.
 
I think breathing issues are a definite vet visit, as soon as possible. Like today, if she seems okay now, or maybe ER if she starts breathing fast again.
 
Does her breath smell like nail polish remover?

That is a warning sigh of diabetic ketoacidosis, a potentially fatal condition which is very expensive to treat due to hospitalization. Her glucose levels have been in the 200s - 300s so this is definitely a possibility.

Have you got some urine ketone test strips? If its going to be a bit before you can get her to the vet, pop over to the pharmacy and get some if you don't have any. While it is a secondary monitoring tool (see my signature link), if it shows high ketones, you need to get to a vet fast. She may need fluids and supportive care, plus other specific meds to help stabilize her.

If she is in pain from the pancreatitis, she may not be eating as well, too. Do you have any pain meds for her? Subcutaneous fluids? B-12 injectable (has been helpful to some with cats having chronic pancreatitis).
 
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She seems fine now, her breath didn't smell like nail polish remover. I think it was just from her trying to jump on the bed twice and falling on her back both times.
she's been eating like normal and drinking like normal.... everything has been normal.
 
When she is resting count how many breaths a minute she does. Healthy cats usually have 10-15 breaths a minute with a little higher as they get older. If she is breathing a lot faster than that it's worth a trip to the vet for a quick exam as it could be something serious. I volunteer at the local SPCA and one of their cats looked fine but was breathing fast and we pointed it out to the animal care staff. The vet listened to her chest, discovered she had pneumonia and when they did an X-ray it showed there was a lot of fluid on her lungs and shd must have been sick for a while. Luckily she went over to sick bay and was fine after a couple of weeks of antibiotics.
 
I can't offer the experience that many folks here have, but I can offer my experience with my cat. If she seems to be breathing fast and hard, I would take her to the vet. I don't want to scare you, and it's probably not the same, but my cat did not feel well (not eating, hiding) when she was first diagnosed with diabetes. The vet was not concerned but several days later she started breathing fast and I took her in for an exam and X-rays. She had very bad heart disease and had to be put to sleep. I can't tell you how much I wish we had caught it earlier. She was having to rest more often than she used to, but it came on gradually and when she was diagnosed with diabetes, I thought it had been neuropathy. I felt bad enough about that but it never occurred to me that it would be life-threatening (at least, I figured it wouldn't be as long as we could get the diabetes under control). I was wrong.

Based purely on my one experience (and I realize this is just one data point) I personally would take any cat with breathing problems to the vet, especially if she's on insulin and you can't get her numbers down. It might mean there is something else going on. My 2 cents.
 
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