Hello everyone,
I'm not really new to the diabetic cat world, as my cat, Toby, was diagnosed 2 and a half years ago. He is 11.5 years old and weighs about 15 pounds. I went along with my vet's recommendation to have glucose curves every 2 weeks at first, to every month, to more extended periods of time. We have been on 3u/2xday for many months now (we use the Humulin-N from Walmart). He had a glucose curve last week and the vet recommended that I purchase a home test system and start monitoring at home. He eats Hills Prescription Diet m/d and has the entire time. Since we have not been home testing, we don't really know his numbers, unless he has a curve done. We know that he started in the high 300's and this past testing indicated that he was at 142 before food and insulin and maintained at 145 through the entire day, and this was with him eating less than half his food.
We have an appointment this Sat morning to discuss these next steps and for them to show us how to test. They want us to purchase the Alphatrak monitor, which thru research I have discovered is now Alphatrak2. They did say we could purchase them online, so at least they aren't forcing us to purchase from them. I have read through various posts on this forum about the use of a human monitor, so I'm leaning toward probably going this route, but we are still trying to understand and research. I'm assuming we would be testing before he eats or has insulin, as that would make the most sense to me.
I found the link to the spreadsheet that you all use, so this is a great resource- thank you! I will continue to read through posts but just wanted to introduce ourselves!
Thanks!
Gwenn
I'm not really new to the diabetic cat world, as my cat, Toby, was diagnosed 2 and a half years ago. He is 11.5 years old and weighs about 15 pounds. I went along with my vet's recommendation to have glucose curves every 2 weeks at first, to every month, to more extended periods of time. We have been on 3u/2xday for many months now (we use the Humulin-N from Walmart). He had a glucose curve last week and the vet recommended that I purchase a home test system and start monitoring at home. He eats Hills Prescription Diet m/d and has the entire time. Since we have not been home testing, we don't really know his numbers, unless he has a curve done. We know that he started in the high 300's and this past testing indicated that he was at 142 before food and insulin and maintained at 145 through the entire day, and this was with him eating less than half his food.
We have an appointment this Sat morning to discuss these next steps and for them to show us how to test. They want us to purchase the Alphatrak monitor, which thru research I have discovered is now Alphatrak2. They did say we could purchase them online, so at least they aren't forcing us to purchase from them. I have read through various posts on this forum about the use of a human monitor, so I'm leaning toward probably going this route, but we are still trying to understand and research. I'm assuming we would be testing before he eats or has insulin, as that would make the most sense to me.
I found the link to the spreadsheet that you all use, so this is a great resource- thank you! I will continue to read through posts but just wanted to introduce ourselves!
Thanks!
Gwenn
