Hi everyone; sorry, I must have only read Kris's last message in email and not on the board so I wasn't getting notifications from the recent posts. Thank you for continuing to check in!
Maggie has been responding really well to the food changes, though from a coordination standpoint it's been challenging. Before Thanksgiving, we brought Maggie up to the cabin for 3 days and I only brought wet food. She did great, though I was only getting one shootable number so I knew her dose was still too high. When we got home, I started a routine of feeding Maggie in one room with the wet food and then putting out dry food for the other 3. I had to leave it out for about an hour because we have one very shy cat who won't come in the room when I put out the food. They are also used to being able to graze throughout the day so I wanted to make sure they had a good amount of time to get some food in. We did this for about a week and it was pretty tough to do. I was doing a morning, afternoon, and evening feeding. Once I went back to work this week, it became clear that morning and evening feedings only were not going to work. Maggie was dropping into dangerous numbers without food available to level her out. The other cats were not getting enough food and were very upset by the time feeding time came around. One of them kept throwing up his food because he was so hungry that he was eating it way too fast.
Tuesday night I started feeding Young Again Zero, which I've had a bag of for about a month but hadn't started feeding it because I was afraid of the poop issues. But I didn't really have much of a choice; they all needed to have food available throughout the day, and unless I kept Maggie locked up in a room by herself, that wasn't going to be possible. As you can see from her chart yesterday, Maggie is doing great! I'm still giving her a serving of wet food before shots, and then leaving the YAZ kibble out at all times. I know we've only just started, but she's had a really positive reaction so far. Two of the cats are having some loose stools from the YAZ but I'm hoping their bodies can adjust quickly. They definitely don't like this kibble as much -- they all went crazy for the EVO, and they aren't excited about this stuff at all. I've got tons of EVO to go through, so we'll still feed it to them when we go out of town with Maggie. They are funny cats; they're picky, but somehow always in agreement!
So I'm thinking that 400 could have just been the tail end of a food spike. I really intended to get a nadir overnight but couldn't get myself out of bed. I'm curious what she will be at this afternoon.
It's a process, isn't it! Her recent high numbers might have created some level of insulin resistance and you'll have to move up in dose until you break through that. I think that's what's going on with teasel right now.
