Eve Baillargeon
Member Since 2021
Hi all!
It’s a little over a month since diagnosis. We’re learning and struggling each day trying to get this right. We live in a small Alaska town with one vet and 2 grocery stores with maybe 2 other places where we are sometimes able to buy cat food/supplies, but mostly I’ve had to order online. Chewy won’t ship to Alaska.
At the time of diagnosis Julius had already lost over 3 lbs, from 13.2 down to 9.6. His BG in the clinic was 399, fructosamine 509, urine ketones 80, (on CBC) platelets were high at 624. No other notable abnormal lab values.
He was placed on 1U of Lantus bid and we began that at home while learning how to test as often as possible. We immediately threw out the dry cat food and started him on wet food only, except for treats, along with our other 5 cats. I have another sweet old cat with stage 3 CKD. Monitoring and managing Julius’ food/carb intake hasn’t been easy. We’ve switched them all to Friskies pates and Julius also gets Fancy Feast pate, plus homemade chicken with broth. He is ravenous most of the time.
Checked his urine and it’s negative for ketones now - whew.
On a day when we tried to do a glucose curve at home, all 4 of his readings that day were in the 240 to 280 range.
On another day we saw:
8:15 am (no food yet) = 127
10:30 am 1U given
4:30 pm (food of course) = 436
*exercise*
8:00 pm = 354
8:15 pm 1U given
He’s all over the place and so are we! As this is an introductory post, I’ll leave it there. Let me just say I’m thankful to have a place to go for advice from experienced sugarcat mamas/daddys and I think I trust you folks more than I do either of the two vets here in town, who are both overworked and overpaid - lol. I am not necessarily looking for diabetic advice right now tonight, but I know I’ve got to get a spreadsheet going and do all I can to learn how to use this forum. Thanks very much - Eve and Julius.
It’s a little over a month since diagnosis. We’re learning and struggling each day trying to get this right. We live in a small Alaska town with one vet and 2 grocery stores with maybe 2 other places where we are sometimes able to buy cat food/supplies, but mostly I’ve had to order online. Chewy won’t ship to Alaska.
At the time of diagnosis Julius had already lost over 3 lbs, from 13.2 down to 9.6. His BG in the clinic was 399, fructosamine 509, urine ketones 80, (on CBC) platelets were high at 624. No other notable abnormal lab values.
He was placed on 1U of Lantus bid and we began that at home while learning how to test as often as possible. We immediately threw out the dry cat food and started him on wet food only, except for treats, along with our other 5 cats. I have another sweet old cat with stage 3 CKD. Monitoring and managing Julius’ food/carb intake hasn’t been easy. We’ve switched them all to Friskies pates and Julius also gets Fancy Feast pate, plus homemade chicken with broth. He is ravenous most of the time.
Checked his urine and it’s negative for ketones now - whew.
On a day when we tried to do a glucose curve at home, all 4 of his readings that day were in the 240 to 280 range.
On another day we saw:
8:15 am (no food yet) = 127
10:30 am 1U given
4:30 pm (food of course) = 436
*exercise*
8:00 pm = 354
8:15 pm 1U given
He’s all over the place and so are we! As this is an introductory post, I’ll leave it there. Let me just say I’m thankful to have a place to go for advice from experienced sugarcat mamas/daddys and I think I trust you folks more than I do either of the two vets here in town, who are both overworked and overpaid - lol. I am not necessarily looking for diabetic advice right now tonight, but I know I’ve got to get a spreadsheet going and do all I can to learn how to use this forum. Thanks very much - Eve and Julius.
