Luz and junior

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Thanks for the good wishes, Luz. I am managing to keep her fed (temporarily on home-cooked chicken and rice and the prednisolone is stimulating her appetite a bit) but unfortunately what she eats is mostly just going straight through her at the moment. :(

When I tried introducing a different food she either started getting nauseated or would only eat very little, depending on the variety. With few exceptions, I think uncomplicated diabetes is much easier to manage than GI issues. :(

Sending some scritches for Junior.


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Junior bg this afternoon was 108. I then fed him FF 3 0z chicken classic but a sprinkle of fortiflora. His ate about 75% of it. He loves to eat a little n come back for a bit more. I did another bg at 3+ it was 78. When should I do the next one? I wasn't sure if I should do it in 3 hours or maybe just 1?
Is there a link about understanding the bg values? How they rise n decrease?
 
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Junior bg this afternoon was 108. I then fed him FF 3 0z chicken classic but a sprinkle of fortiflora. His ate about 75% of it. He loves to eat a little n come back for a bit more. I did another bg at 3+ it was 78. When should I do the next one? I wasn't sure if I should do it in 3 hours or maybe just 1?
Is there a link about understanding the bg values? How they rise n decrease?
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The BG numbers rise and fall in response to eating, carb level of food, activity level, emotional state, presence of infection, insulin dose (if insulin is given). Many things can affect BG.

Junior isn't getting any insulin right now so you're free to decide how often you want to test because you're just gathering information to see if he actually needs insulin.
 
luz said:
Junior bg this afternoon was 108. I then fed him FF 3 0z chicken classic but a sprinkle of fortiflora. His ate about 75% of it. He loves to eat a little n come back for a bit more. I did another bg at 3+ it was 78.
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Oooh! We like this news. V-e-r-y much!!! :cool:

Because Junior's BG went down a while after eating it points to his pancreas producing good pulses of insulin at mealtimes. All of Junior's BG tests for the day have been in the normal, healthy range and those two double-digit tests are excellent.

Again I say thank goodness you took the initiative and started home testing before giving the prescribed 2IU of insulin.

C'mon, Junior; keep this up! :cat:


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Hello everyone. My vet called today to tell me his fructosamine level was 519. His hyperthyroidism test was negative. She says she consulted with another vet because she was perplexed on his initial glucose prior to diabetes confirmation of 518 and then his fructosamine result of 519. Then normal results so soon after. She says she has never seen this before. She ask me what I did and I told her I modified his diet. She told me to keep monitor bg at home and to call her if the numbers start to go up.
I also wanted to ask you ladies what the restriction on fortiflora are. I sprinkle just a bit on his food to get him to eat a little twice a day. Is this ok? Is it save to use this at every meal. Junior still doesn't love his food. He eats a bit and walks away and comes back. I wish he could just eat a 3 0z can in one sitting but he refuses. I don't want to change his food too soon because right now I just don't want to change too much with everything that is going on. Any ideas? I also checked his weight and according to my home scale he is 10.8 pounds. He only eats 2(3 oz can of FF)

Ihave wellness chicken formula grain free (wet)
30 protein 66 fat 4 carb 219 phosphorus

I have wellness turkey formula grain free (wet)
31 protein 65 fat 4 carb 200 phosphorus

Someone told me to try friskies.
Turkey n giblet dinner
41 protein 51 fat 8 carb 338 phosphorus

Does anyone here feed there cat this?
 
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Ihave wellness chicken formula grain free (wet)
30 protein 66 fat 4 carb 219 phosphorus

Does anyone here feed there cat this?
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I feed mine this occasionally. Gordy goes back and forth on liking it. He seems to love the FF. Wellness makes decent food, so it's definitely worth a shot.

A lot of others here have had good luck with Pro Plan wet food. I don't know what the carbs are on those.

(PS - I'm SUPER jealous you were able to get your furbaby into healthy numbers with the diet change. :P Also very happy for you!)
 
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@CassAndGordy hiw much does Mr G weight? About how much does he eat in a day ?
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Gord weighs about 18 pounds (he is a hunk of a cat lol).

He gets about 3.25 cans of wet a day (doing the 3oz ones) and a little bit of dry Evo.

I have a supply of the bigger cans of wellness that i use to freeze small pieces for his autofeeder.

ETA: its 3.25 cans, not 2.25 lol
 
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his definitively a very handsome little man. I purchased Young again zero. Can't wait for it to come in to mix a few of those and see if I can get this cat to eat an entire meal. I didn't think to freeze the wellness. I'll have to do that.
 
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