Scottish_Bella
Member Since 2017
Hi
Our 11 year old female cat has had her first injection of Prozinc 1mg today. She has been drinking and eating excessively for the last few weeks and after getting a urine sample (which stressed her a lot) and an unsuccessful vets visit for a blood sample, she was back at the vets today for sedation for the blood test and to be dematted. When we picked her up at the vets tonight we (the family 4of us) practiced injecting her with water and finally with her first dose of insulin.
No mention of testing blood at home and we return to the vets in about 10 days for another blood test, hopefully she will be feeling better and no sedation will be required.
The vet said not to change anything so she would not get stressed. We give her 2 pouches of wet food a day and she always has dry food available, from what I have read this is not ideal for a diabetic cat. We will inject her at 7am & 7pm.
Is it a good idea to remove her dry food at night so that when we give her a pouch in the morning she will be hungry and after she has eaten we can give her the insulin?
We are still getting used to the idea of having to inject her and going forward I will be changing her diet to one that is appropriate to her, but at the minute she has been sedated and shaved and I don't want to stress her too much, but At the moment I am still trying to come to terms with having to inject her twice a day.
Any advice would be gratefully appreciated.
The cost today was nearly £400, but insurance will pay for 80% of the cost. I'm worried that any hypo will happen when we are not at work and also if she doesn't eat should we not inject? How much should she eat before it's safe to inject?
Sorry for all the questions, but we have had her since she was 7 weeks old and she is part of the family.
We are all worried about the future, once we are confident of the injections would you recommend that we blood test at home? Rather than going to the vets every week or so?
Thanks for reading xxx
Our 11 year old female cat has had her first injection of Prozinc 1mg today. She has been drinking and eating excessively for the last few weeks and after getting a urine sample (which stressed her a lot) and an unsuccessful vets visit for a blood sample, she was back at the vets today for sedation for the blood test and to be dematted. When we picked her up at the vets tonight we (the family 4of us) practiced injecting her with water and finally with her first dose of insulin.
No mention of testing blood at home and we return to the vets in about 10 days for another blood test, hopefully she will be feeling better and no sedation will be required.
The vet said not to change anything so she would not get stressed. We give her 2 pouches of wet food a day and she always has dry food available, from what I have read this is not ideal for a diabetic cat. We will inject her at 7am & 7pm.
Is it a good idea to remove her dry food at night so that when we give her a pouch in the morning she will be hungry and after she has eaten we can give her the insulin?
We are still getting used to the idea of having to inject her and going forward I will be changing her diet to one that is appropriate to her, but at the minute she has been sedated and shaved and I don't want to stress her too much, but At the moment I am still trying to come to terms with having to inject her twice a day.
Any advice would be gratefully appreciated.
The cost today was nearly £400, but insurance will pay for 80% of the cost. I'm worried that any hypo will happen when we are not at work and also if she doesn't eat should we not inject? How much should she eat before it's safe to inject?
Sorry for all the questions, but we have had her since she was 7 weeks old and she is part of the family.
We are all worried about the future, once we are confident of the injections would you recommend that we blood test at home? Rather than going to the vets every week or so?
Thanks for reading xxx
