kimouette
Active Member
Hi everyone,
Ma 13 year old female cat has been diagnosed with diabetes less than a month ago. Eversince that, I have NOT been monitoring my cat at home cuz my veterinarian told me she was against that.. she wants to be THE ONE in charge of my cat's glucose curves and tests :-x Anyway, I decided to go ahead and buy a Bayer Contour to monitor my cat, but I'm afraid of the results I see!
My cat is either cured, very sick, or there's something I'm missing
This morning her BG was 7.1 and two hours later (so 10 minutes after she ate her meal, while I was prepared to see the numbers climbing to something above 10) her BG was 5.6 . Normally I would give her 1.5 units of Caninsulin right after the meal (canned Purnina DM by the way), but with these results, and remembering what my veterinarian told me (Titi's glucose is dropping of about 5 for each unit of insulin), I'm afraid I'll just directly cause hypoglycemia!
This would be the first time I am not giving her injection (normally it's twice a day)... am I doing something wrong? or anything I'm missing?
I just read about Somoyogi effect but I'm not sure to understand...With that effect, if my cat had a "nocturnal hypoglycemia" she might show mixed up results like that? And if that's the case, I still dont know if I should give her injection or not!
Any advice would be very appreciated!
Kim

Ma 13 year old female cat has been diagnosed with diabetes less than a month ago. Eversince that, I have NOT been monitoring my cat at home cuz my veterinarian told me she was against that.. she wants to be THE ONE in charge of my cat's glucose curves and tests :-x Anyway, I decided to go ahead and buy a Bayer Contour to monitor my cat, but I'm afraid of the results I see!
My cat is either cured, very sick, or there's something I'm missing
This morning her BG was 7.1 and two hours later (so 10 minutes after she ate her meal, while I was prepared to see the numbers climbing to something above 10) her BG was 5.6 . Normally I would give her 1.5 units of Caninsulin right after the meal (canned Purnina DM by the way), but with these results, and remembering what my veterinarian told me (Titi's glucose is dropping of about 5 for each unit of insulin), I'm afraid I'll just directly cause hypoglycemia!
This would be the first time I am not giving her injection (normally it's twice a day)... am I doing something wrong? or anything I'm missing?
I just read about Somoyogi effect but I'm not sure to understand...With that effect, if my cat had a "nocturnal hypoglycemia" she might show mixed up results like that? And if that's the case, I still dont know if I should give her injection or not!
Any advice would be very appreciated!
Kim
