HELP WITH MY GIRL NOT EATING AND LOSING WEIGHT

Erinmc

Erinmc

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Does anyone have experience with possible pancreatitis? This is all fairly new. Mostly in the last week. The last couple days she hasn’t really wanted to eat. Last Sunday she threw up yellow foamy stuff. Still trying to get her regulated from a couple UTIs the past few months.
What can I do right now to help her from home
 
Looking at her spreadsheet- what does the M stand for after the 2.5 units? Are you testing her for ketones using either a blood ketone meter or keto stix where you put the strip in her urine stream? I would like to make sure that she doesn’t have ketones since you mentioned urinary tract infections. Infections can put a cat into diabetic ketoacidosis.
 
Has she had lab work done? Has she has specific pancreatitis tests run? If pancreatitis is suspected, you want a test measuring Pancreas- specific lipase. The test is called Feline Pancreatic Lipase Immunoreactivity (fPLI.). The test requires only a simple blood test. There is a snap test that can be done at the vet, but it is best to also send to the lab for the fPLI test. If you have any other lab work, can you share it here?
 
Suzanne & Darcy said:
Hi Erin. I’m sorry that nobody replied to you? Did you put a post over on the Feline Health forum? I’ve been really sick so haven’t been around. But I am attaching the pancreatitis primer to this message. Here it goes:
https://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/a-primer-on-pancreatitis.83108/
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I didn’t. I had put one on the ProZinc forum but I’m assuming that doesn’t get much traffic so I posted here after. I’ll look over the pancreatitis info but someone (on a different group) thinks this could all be explained by the vet increasing her thyroid meds 2 months ago‍♀️ Vet appointment tomorrow but not feeling very confident in their judgment
 
And I see you have been dealing with constipation? That can definitely take away a cat’s appetite. I hope you will get answers tomorrow. It’s definitely worth getting labs to check thyroid levels as well as some other basic bloodwork if it hasn’t been done recently. Make sure you get copies.
 
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