To do a curve after you have withhold food 2 hours prior to testing his BG number, then feed 1 hour after testing.you will then test him every 2 hours for 12 hours
I believe this would be a good curve.
Looks good now
Here fluffy and I are, tonight he did not want to eat very much dinner and he was due for insulin at 7:30 and I was afraid to give it to him. what do I do? Could it be that maybe he doesn't need any insulin?
Yes...I feed him dry food. He had to eat something! I retested his BG at 10, after he eat some dry, 469, gave him 1U at 10:05p. Idk what I need to feed him. I feel so lost.
Yes. He has to eat. That’s paramount. I didn’t mean it like … “oh that’s bad”. I am actually relieved that he’s eating, because from a few of your other messages, I was worried that he wasn’t eating at all… so I am relieved that he is eating - even though we would prefer that Fluffy would eat his wet food.
I just took his BG it's 459 he normally would eat and then he gets a shot at 7:30 but since he didn't have a shot until 10 last night I don't know what to do and I only gave him one unit last night because I wasn't sure if he ate enough. He's been grazing on the community bowl off and on all night long along with the other cats. I removed the community bowl for now thinking I would wait until 7:30 recheck his b.g. feed him and give him his one unit at 8:30. I don't know if this is the best plan for today. I really don't know where to go from here. My cats are used to free feed and I think he's not adjusting very well having to eat wet food at a specific time. He just wants to be grazing as he pleases as before. I'm very concerned about the cost of any of the low-carb kibble. I hear that they eat less on this kibble but less is still multiplied seven times in my household. I don't think they're going to eat that much less that will really make a big difference in the cost for me. It is not feasible for me to have to pay $60 or $80 for an 8 lb bag. For 7 cats that's probably going to last a month or less when I'm typically paying $25 a month for dry food.. I'm doing my very best to keep my boy healthy and to get him healthy with the funds that I have available to me.
I'm in Eastern Time Zone.
I agree with this.
I feed them canned food, and my food bill is several hundred every month (not good) so that's not an option. I periodically threaten to feed them Friskies canned food instead of the stuff I do feed them which is called Performatrin Senior Turkey and Chicken as well as Weruva BFF PLAY Chicken and Lamb Laugh out Loud because they are lower phosphorus foods... I am trying to reduce the phosphorus load on my older kitties and spare their kidneys. There's nothing wrong with Friskies Pates, but I believe most of the flavors have fish in them and I don't want to feed them fish every day). You have to work within your budgetary constraints. I have no idea how you feed 7 cats on only $25 per month though. I'm sorry about all the stress. I can tell you are really stressed out. I am thinking that you will have to adjust Fluffy's insulin slowly and carefully due to the dry food. I don't like that he's on Novolin and I hope that you can get him on a better insulin for cats... but you'd have to talk to your vet about that.
Yes. April is correct, Scarlette. I always fed my diabetic boy as much as he wanted for the most part (except 2 hours before shot time when I was a newby and did not have much data to show me how he responded to carbs.) But he was Acro and 17lbs. and had been DKA and needed a lot of food. The issue with Fluffy is not so much when he is eating (although that does play a part in his BG) as what he is eating, since it is - at least partially - high carb dry food. A feeding schedule is important for a lot of cats. It can be two, three, four or more times a day. ECID. Right now, the high carb dry food is all Scarlett can give them. She's trying to feed Fluffy low carb canned food twice a day and let him free feed at other times ... but he's not been that interested in the LC lately. A lot of people here, Scarlette, do what they call "feeding the curve," which means they feed their kitty the a.m. meal that goes with the insulin shot, then they sometimes feed at +1, +2, +3, etc. -- just a small amount of LC wet food to keep the cat from dropping too much and to flatten out their numbers. It's very individual and depends a lot on the cat and how they respond to the insulin. Some people aren't able to do that because of their work schedule, so they have timed feeders that are set to open at certain times of the day (and/or night) so their diabetic cat can have snacks at certain points in the cycle. This stuff really doesn't apply to you since you have seven cats! I am not sure how that would work. LOL. You don't really need to know all that right now about feeding the curve, but it's just FYI (if you are looking at other people's spreadsheets and wondering.) You will develop something that works for Fluffy and you.
Yes..9 yrs.
I will post his story in a day or two.
I’m glad he ate the raw food. Will your vet consider ProZinc insulin? Or Lantus?
IDK, yet but DCIN doesn't cover prozinc.
No! I hope you didn't already shoot. I am standing by and waiting for the new number.
Fluffy only ate about 1.5oz outta 2.5oz of his raw food this morning I retested him his BG was 313. He is now nibbling at the food dish should I continue with one unit
It's 313. After eating 1.5oz raw food walked away, retested, now his nibbling on dry food and we're standing by. His dose was due at 8:30a
Okay. Whenever you get an unusual reading on your meter then retest immediately. You must have had a bad test strip. That does happen occasionally. This applies whether you get a number that is unusually high or unusually low -- anything really out of the normal expected number for Fluffy.
Ok...home. updated SS
Please tell me what DCIN is??? I need help paying for insulin. My vet prescribes Lantis.
DCIN stands for Diabetic Cats In Need. @Chris & China (GA) can you help here?
Thanks so much @Chris & China (GA) !