Liquid Glipizide???

[Jen & Squeak]

I am giving some advice to a friend of a friend, whose cat has just been diagnosed with diabetes. Her vet has suggested a liquid diabetes med that he has said has a 1 in 3 chance of working...sounds like glipizide to me but I've never heard of it being administered in liquid form. Any thoughts? I just realized I should have just googled the glipizide webpage but now I've started this I think I'll leave it here...sorry!

 

[Lisa dvm]

Hi Jen,

I am assuming that they are just taking the raw material and compounding it into a liquid just as other meds are compounded into flavored liquids when the manufacturer only makes pills.

Of course I know that you are doing your best to drag your friend to a proper treatment of her cat with insulin.

 

[Jen & Squeak]

Yeah, I figured something like that. I told her that if she's paying for meds she might as well pay for insulin, and also that the cat should have antibiotics sooner rather than later I just have to remember how tough it was for me to know what to do when Squeak was diagnosed

I have given her links to various FDMB pages and she's done some reading, so that is good!

 

[Karen and Flo]

You might want to advise her of the Lantus coupon just in case. There are still a couple hours left, depending on where she is located.