Heather&Dagron
Member Since 2017
We saw an internist (internal medicine) today. Unfortunately, she didn't have an answer for why cats' numbers are usually highest AMPS. Oh well.
She seemed unconcerned about the low % of carbs in his food. The food Dagron and Gryphon currently eat is 71% protein, 1% carbs. His normal vet thought this was too low.
At first, she wanted me to do a bunch of testing to rule out infection - urinalysis, urine culture, bloodwork, abdominal ultrasound, and chest x-rays. I told her I have no money, so she said "well, you could just bump him up to 2u for two weeks and then do a curve."
It's strange though, when I talked to her about dentals - and whether she thinks it's okay to do dental cleanings on diabetic cats - she said she thinks it's fine in Dagron's case, but that she doesn't think that is affecting his BG because he isn't on a really high dose of insulin (no insulin resistance). So if she's already saying he probably doesn't have an infection because he doesn't have insulin resistance, why is she suggesting all the tests?
Anyway, I am going to bump him to 2u bid and do a curve in two weekends. Can't do it sooner than that.
The one good thing that came out of this trip is that she thinks the numbers are not as important as symptoms, which is how I tend to operate as well. Although, she also tried to tell me not to test him so much, and I'm like... yeh, hypoglycemia, no. At least I learned why vets have a tendency to tell us that - it can make the cat aggressive and difficult to test (which it is doing with Dagron, but only near mealtime).
She seemed unconcerned about the low % of carbs in his food. The food Dagron and Gryphon currently eat is 71% protein, 1% carbs. His normal vet thought this was too low.
At first, she wanted me to do a bunch of testing to rule out infection - urinalysis, urine culture, bloodwork, abdominal ultrasound, and chest x-rays. I told her I have no money, so she said "well, you could just bump him up to 2u for two weeks and then do a curve."
It's strange though, when I talked to her about dentals - and whether she thinks it's okay to do dental cleanings on diabetic cats - she said she thinks it's fine in Dagron's case, but that she doesn't think that is affecting his BG because he isn't on a really high dose of insulin (no insulin resistance). So if she's already saying he probably doesn't have an infection because he doesn't have insulin resistance, why is she suggesting all the tests?
Anyway, I am going to bump him to 2u bid and do a curve in two weekends. Can't do it sooner than that.
The one good thing that came out of this trip is that she thinks the numbers are not as important as symptoms, which is how I tend to operate as well. Although, she also tried to tell me not to test him so much, and I'm like... yeh, hypoglycemia, no. At least I learned why vets have a tendency to tell us that - it can make the cat aggressive and difficult to test (which it is doing with Dagron, but only near mealtime).
