Deb & Wink
Member Since 2013
My civie Dancer, 6 1/2 years old, has been drinking a lot of water (1 cup average) and peeing 6, 8, 10, 12 times a day in the litter box for several months now. She only eats low carb canned food for the past 4 years, since I got my diabetic Wink, with an occasional freeze dried treat or a bite of pure meat like cooked chicken.
I have increased her food intake a little bit (about 1/2 oz more food per day) to help her maintain her weight. She's always wanted to steal the other cats food, but I attribute that to her feral colony early life and not that she is necessarily hungry, but more of the mentality that she needs to "eat as much whenever possible since she doesn't know where her next meal is coming from". She gets 4 meals a day, but she still will snatch and grab Wink's food whenever he walks away.
This morning she stole a small chunk of beef from my breakfast plate that I left unattended for a few minutes. 
I knew she wasn't diabetic as I used Wink's BG test kit to test her and Dancer's BG values have always been <90 mg/dl using the human glucometer, usually in the 50-80 range. Bloodwork at the vet simply confirmed what I already knew.
I was thinking it might be kidney issues or thyroid so I took her to the vet a few weeks ago.
Dancer has been a bit more aggressive towards Wink, but that might also be because of the outdoor stray cats which she hates seeing. The aggressive behavior was making me think hyper-t, but the T4 value (1.6) doesn't support that.
Bloodwork values show as normal for everything, nothing showing as high or low, including kidney, glucose, thyroid. Cystocentesis showed urine specific gravity as low(1.009), PH as high (7.5) and the vet said these values were in the "gray zone". C&S (culture and sensitivity) results came back today, showing no bacteria present so no UTI.
Blood work results attached, but here are a few of the key values.
Creatinine was 1.6 with ref range of 0.6-2.4
BUN/Creatinine ratio 11 with ref range 4-33
Glucose 91 (fasting) with ref range 64-170
Total T4 1.6 with ref range 0.8-4.0
Vet is suggesting that early kidney disease could be possible and recommends abdominal ultrasound as the next step, if I want to do that.
I'm thinking of doing a full thyroid panel to see if other thyroid values are out of whack. I know that only a total T4 doesn't always give the full picture and does not rule out the possibility of hyper-t. The vet did say Dancer had a palpable thyroid slip.
Opinions please as to if the ultrasound is worth doing at this point. More thyroid tests? Or other ideas please?
Thanks for any second thoughts from folks here. Deb
I have increased her food intake a little bit (about 1/2 oz more food per day) to help her maintain her weight. She's always wanted to steal the other cats food, but I attribute that to her feral colony early life and not that she is necessarily hungry, but more of the mentality that she needs to "eat as much whenever possible since she doesn't know where her next meal is coming from". She gets 4 meals a day, but she still will snatch and grab Wink's food whenever he walks away.
This morning she stole a small chunk of beef from my breakfast plate that I left unattended for a few minutes. I knew she wasn't diabetic as I used Wink's BG test kit to test her and Dancer's BG values have always been <90 mg/dl using the human glucometer, usually in the 50-80 range. Bloodwork at the vet simply confirmed what I already knew.
I was thinking it might be kidney issues or thyroid so I took her to the vet a few weeks ago.
Dancer has been a bit more aggressive towards Wink, but that might also be because of the outdoor stray cats which she hates seeing. The aggressive behavior was making me think hyper-t, but the T4 value (1.6) doesn't support that.
Bloodwork values show as normal for everything, nothing showing as high or low, including kidney, glucose, thyroid. Cystocentesis showed urine specific gravity as low(1.009), PH as high (7.5) and the vet said these values were in the "gray zone". C&S (culture and sensitivity) results came back today, showing no bacteria present so no UTI.
Blood work results attached, but here are a few of the key values.
Creatinine was 1.6 with ref range of 0.6-2.4
BUN/Creatinine ratio 11 with ref range 4-33
Glucose 91 (fasting) with ref range 64-170
Total T4 1.6 with ref range 0.8-4.0
Vet is suggesting that early kidney disease could be possible and recommends abdominal ultrasound as the next step, if I want to do that.
I'm thinking of doing a full thyroid panel to see if other thyroid values are out of whack. I know that only a total T4 doesn't always give the full picture and does not rule out the possibility of hyper-t. The vet did say Dancer had a palpable thyroid slip.
Opinions please as to if the ultrasound is worth doing at this point. More thyroid tests? Or other ideas please?
Thanks for any second thoughts from folks here. Deb
