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[soozi&buster]

A little background. I rescued Buster in the winter of 2008. After he began peeing everywhere I took him to the vet who diagnosed diabetes. I, luckily, found this board which gave me support, education and the knowledge to NOT listen to my vet when he dosed him at 7 units twice a day :shock: We started at one, tested twice daily and eventualy ended at 3. his levels were consistantly between 275 and 325 high with the bottom of the bell curve at around 150. He was so consistant that I got lazy and began testing him weekly. This went on for a year. Last week I found him clearly in shock. I got him going with some corn syrup on the gums and sugar milk. He then tested at 60! I have been testing him daily since and these are his numbers (I don't remember how to get to the spreadsheet) He has had no insulin (Humulin N) in this time
3/7 127, 162
3/8 141, 118
3/9 128, 146
3/10 121, 169
3/11 92, 124
3/12 142, 112

Could we be working our way out of this via diet alone?
As always thank you

 

[Sue and Oliver (GA)]

Welcome back! His numbers have definitely improved. They are still diabetic numbers. We generally consider a cat in remission when their numbers run somewhere between 40 -120 with most of the time spent in double digits. You have several choices. You can give tiny doses on insulin (like drops) when he is in the 130+ range, planning to test alot. You can try to limit the carbs by feeding food on the low end (2-3% carbs) to see if that makes a difference. You can feed frequent small meals to support the pancreas.

There are other things that will lower the bg levels - particularly some kinds of cancer. But I would figure this is a good thing at this point and work with it.

Here's the spreadsheet: Setting up a spreadsheet