Yong & Maury GA
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Not at all, I appreciate your insight
. Better to be straight forward and blunt with me, don't sugar coat unnecessarily
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Took him there for first curve and after 2 readings his numbers barely moved so they called me to come pick him up and said he was a complicated case. -__-Why did your first vet say that about him?
Still on medium carb wet with YA for dry. He really turns his nose to pate1. Are you still on a medium carb diet? Would he do better on lower carb food? Wet food only? The medium carb and YA might not spike his numbers right away, but they may be having a longer duration impact. Kind of like athletes can't eat crap on Tuesday and then perform well on Saturday (not calling MC food crap - just trying to find a metaphor). They might have pooped the food out by then, but there are systems in our body that are impacted by influences over time, not just influences in the moment. Could there be something like that going on with Maury?
I try to keep the dose as steady as possible.2. Would he benefit from a steady dose instead of sliding scale? Obviously you have to adjust if his pre-shot is a blue or green, but if he got a steadier dose, would his numbers start to level out? Some cats work better on sliding scale, some work better on consistency.
It does feel longer than 3 months.3. What Kris said: this is just how he is, and you can find peace in knowing that - but also like Steph said - it might feel like forever, but it's only been three months so far.
The depot scares me too until I can read more about how it works. I do like the flexibility of Prozinc. But I am going to try and give another vial a shot and see where we are at the 6 month mark.I was scared (and still am) of the depot idea. I liked the flexibility of prozinc.
That's what I try do on a daily basis and I can't see a solid pattern lol. Only thing I can kind of do is predict if he's going to bounce. Just having a moment that I feel like I'm doing something wrong.You have to figure out what is the pattern for your cat and then figure out how to change it to get those lower numbers...and that is just constant.
Took him there for first curve and after 2 readings his numbers barely moved so they called me to come pick him up and said he was a complicated case. -__-.
Still on medium carb wet with YA for dry. He really turns his nose to pate. I have thought about trying to get him on his lunch flavours all the time.
It does feel longer than 3 months.
I always kept a little of the old vial in case I dropped the new one and broke it. At least there'd be some insulin around until I could replace the lost one.Side note: Going to get new vial now, should I still keep the other vial or use as much as I can up and toss it?
Thinking I will try like 1/2 Tablespoon of his non-pate on top first. If he just eats the top, then I'll try mixing it. Maury is hanging with me right now. I just showed him Sam's SS and explained that's where we need to be![]()
I was using those more for his lunches. MC were his meals but I'm trying to change that upI was just looking at the food list (looking for foods that are lower in phosphorus), and the Friskies tuna and egg is only listed at 6% carbs. Isn't that what you've been feeding? I would call that LC, not MC. I thought you said you were feeding MC. Am I just confused?