allie and newkitty
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My nearly 14 year old cat is glued to the water bowl here lately. She is on pred, so we are used to this to some extent. And when her BGs are close to 200 or over, we see this. But her blood sugar is rarely higher than 135 these days (usually averages around 120). No sugar in her urine. I have taken her off Lantus because I am afraid of a hypo with her inconsistency about eating--we were on 3 units, then 2, then 1, then 1/2, etc. (What an awesome drug)
Would you expect to see increased drinking at a BG of 135? I have doubled the water content in her wet food puree. At the last few vet visits, her BUN has ranged from 30, 31, 37 (during a bad stomach virus) back down to 31. Creatinine is generally around 1.1, 1.2, though it went up to 1.9 during her virus bloodwork and came back down. She was last checked in December. I am supposed to take her back in June to be rechecked but I think I am going to try to get her in tomorrow. I believe I took her in last fall for this same reason and things checked out ok, but her BGs were higher then.
In December she was diagnosed with luxating patellas and the vet told me to get her slimmed down to help her knees. I have gotten her down about a pound (13.7 to 12.8) over these past 4 months. Is that a reasonable amount of time to lose the weight? I just took her off her cyproheptadine that kind of kept her eating consistently, which makes insulin tricky but is helpful for the trick knees & the arthritis in the joints.
No vomiting. She is not a vomiter unless pancreatitis-ing. She does regurgitate when she eats too fast. One note, while she does hover over the water bowl, she does not move a whole lot at one time probably due to her knees. So I am not really sure how much of that is thirst/hovering rather than ohmanIdon'tfeellikemovingagainyet/hovering. She calls to me from the top and the bottom of the stairs for transport and will only navigate them herself when I am not around or in a coma.
Perhaps taking her off the Lantus was a bad idea, but the idea of 12-18 hours at a hypo level is scary. I am really more worried about CRF than anything else. Sorry so rambling. Any thoughts?
Would you expect to see increased drinking at a BG of 135? I have doubled the water content in her wet food puree. At the last few vet visits, her BUN has ranged from 30, 31, 37 (during a bad stomach virus) back down to 31. Creatinine is generally around 1.1, 1.2, though it went up to 1.9 during her virus bloodwork and came back down. She was last checked in December. I am supposed to take her back in June to be rechecked but I think I am going to try to get her in tomorrow. I believe I took her in last fall for this same reason and things checked out ok, but her BGs were higher then.
In December she was diagnosed with luxating patellas and the vet told me to get her slimmed down to help her knees. I have gotten her down about a pound (13.7 to 12.8) over these past 4 months. Is that a reasonable amount of time to lose the weight? I just took her off her cyproheptadine that kind of kept her eating consistently, which makes insulin tricky but is helpful for the trick knees & the arthritis in the joints.
No vomiting. She is not a vomiter unless pancreatitis-ing. She does regurgitate when she eats too fast. One note, while she does hover over the water bowl, she does not move a whole lot at one time probably due to her knees. So I am not really sure how much of that is thirst/hovering rather than ohmanIdon'tfeellikemovingagainyet/hovering. She calls to me from the top and the bottom of the stairs for transport and will only navigate them herself when I am not around or in a coma.
Perhaps taking her off the Lantus was a bad idea, but the idea of 12-18 hours at a hypo level is scary. I am really more worried about CRF than anything else. Sorry so rambling. Any thoughts?
