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Hi Everyone!
I'm using this board for the first time. I have a couple of questions concerning my cat.
My boyfriend and I just started my cats treatment with insulin. We are treating him two times a day with just a half of a unit. His blood sugar started to go down pretty much right away, at a gradual level. However, over the past couple of days we noticed that it went up from 271 to 426, then up to 428. This morning, it was lower at 347, however we were wondering if this is normal? We've only been treating him for less than a week.
Thanks so much! :smile:
 
Hi Kelly!
Welcome to FDMB!
A couple quick questions...
What is kittie's name and what food is he or she eating?
Which insulin are you using?
Carl in SC
 
If you can provide the answers to Carl's questions, we can better help you.

Generally speaking, BG's fluctuate, same as in humans. When you eat, are stressed or excited, your bg's can go up or down.

Without more information - such as how long has kitty been on insulin, we can't give any more answer then a generalization.


Are you keeping track of the tests you take? We have a handy dandy google spreadsheet that you can use that will make it easier to track, and easier for us to read and help you. Go over to the tech forum and the instructions are there.
 
Kelly,
When your kitty was diagnosed, did the vet find any other conditions along with diabetes? Do you know if he's been checked for ketones? Did they run a full blood panel, and if so, do you have (or can you get) a copy of the test results? There are a lot of numbers you can get from a bloodwork report that may help us in figuring out the "total picture". Please let us know.
Were his numbers higher or lower today?
Carl
 
Hi! Sure, it's absolutely possible that you're seeing results from the insulin already. That's a good thing! Without more info, though, it's difficult to be sure that's what's going on. I want to commend your vet for starting your kitty on a low dose, not many vets know to do that. It sounds like you are hometesting the glucose, right? If so, that's awesome! You're off to a great start. If you are hometesting you can catch things like the blood glucose being too low to administer the insulin. For newbies, that level is between 150-200. Until you know exactly how kitty is responding to the insulin, you want to make sure you don't shoot them on low numbers. We can definitely give you more specific advice on how to proceed when we know what insulin kitty is on and what kitty is eating.
 
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