Evey
Member Since 2024
Evey's eating behavior has changed since last December. In the past, she used to eat her meals on time (25g/meal at shot time, +2, +3.5 and +5) and finished everything up immediately. Since last December, she hasn't been finishing up all her food when we fed her and sometimes she skipped her +2 and/or +3.5 meal. But she would eat them up later. So about a month ago I change the feeding schedule to 30-35g/meal at shot time, +2.5 and +5. Recently, her eating behavior changed again. These are what I noticed:
1. She often won’t come out for her first meal in the morning without being gently prodded to go from the bedroom to the kitchen. Sometimes I put the food about a meter or two away from her, she wouldn't eat. Like she couldn't see it or smell it. I wonder if her eye sights or her sense of smell is bad. But when she wants food, she knows where the food is and her nose worked hard when I was cooking salmon (but not for her, for me).
2. When the +2 and +3.5 meals are provided at the auto-feeder when no one is home before lunch, she often won’t eat the +2 meal and has started to eat just part of the +3 meal. Sometimes she skipped both entirely. Usually she eats only 8-10g of the 60g food in the auto-feeder. Once in a while, she ate about 40-50g of the food. However, when someone comes home to give her food during lunch time, she will usually eat most of the leftover from the morning after it's been heated it up . This is usually around nine hours after her first meal in the morning.
3. If someone is home to feed her in the morning, she usually won’t come out of the bedroom to get her second and third meals on time. But if the food is brought to her directly, she will eat most of it on time. I wonder not eating on time would be a issue for her BG.
4. Although not common, there have been some times where she will go and hide underneath the bed for an hour or so in the morning before returning to the top.
Since mid-February, she started to have lots of dead skin around her neck and head areas and there are so much of it that her dead skin shreds all over the bed and the couch. And her skin gets dark like in this picture.
She is diabetic with Cushing syndrome and proteinuria and has been taking Trilostane (5mg, twice a day), insulin (1U, twice a day) and Telmisartan (5, once a day). She started taking Trilostane in July last year and her eating behavior has been changing slowly since then. I don't know if the Trilostane is related to her change of eating behavior. Sometimes I wonder if she is back to her pre-diabetic eating habit (free-feeding). It just seems she only eats when she is hungry. But sometimes taking her that long to finish her meal makes me worried because I'm afraid she might get low blood sugar. I keep giving her a safe dosage instead of following TR.
She also sleeps a lot. I don't know if she sleeps a lot because she is sick or she is just too old. Should I be worried about this change of eating behavior? Is there anything wrong with her? Besides, does anyone know what happened to her skin and is there anything I can do about it?
Thank you so much!
1. She often won’t come out for her first meal in the morning without being gently prodded to go from the bedroom to the kitchen. Sometimes I put the food about a meter or two away from her, she wouldn't eat. Like she couldn't see it or smell it. I wonder if her eye sights or her sense of smell is bad. But when she wants food, she knows where the food is and her nose worked hard when I was cooking salmon (but not for her, for me).
2. When the +2 and +3.5 meals are provided at the auto-feeder when no one is home before lunch, she often won’t eat the +2 meal and has started to eat just part of the +3 meal. Sometimes she skipped both entirely. Usually she eats only 8-10g of the 60g food in the auto-feeder. Once in a while, she ate about 40-50g of the food. However, when someone comes home to give her food during lunch time, she will usually eat most of the leftover from the morning after it's been heated it up . This is usually around nine hours after her first meal in the morning.
3. If someone is home to feed her in the morning, she usually won’t come out of the bedroom to get her second and third meals on time. But if the food is brought to her directly, she will eat most of it on time. I wonder not eating on time would be a issue for her BG.
4. Although not common, there have been some times where she will go and hide underneath the bed for an hour or so in the morning before returning to the top.
Since mid-February, she started to have lots of dead skin around her neck and head areas and there are so much of it that her dead skin shreds all over the bed and the couch. And her skin gets dark like in this picture.
She is diabetic with Cushing syndrome and proteinuria and has been taking Trilostane (5mg, twice a day), insulin (1U, twice a day) and Telmisartan (5, once a day). She started taking Trilostane in July last year and her eating behavior has been changing slowly since then. I don't know if the Trilostane is related to her change of eating behavior. Sometimes I wonder if she is back to her pre-diabetic eating habit (free-feeding). It just seems she only eats when she is hungry. But sometimes taking her that long to finish her meal makes me worried because I'm afraid she might get low blood sugar. I keep giving her a safe dosage instead of following TR.
She also sleeps a lot. I don't know if she sleeps a lot because she is sick or she is just too old. Should I be worried about this change of eating behavior? Is there anything wrong with her? Besides, does anyone know what happened to her skin and is there anything I can do about it?
Thank you so much!
