minky and diana
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We seem to have dodged a bullet.
At the beginning of February, Minky was drinking and peeing like a fiend (that's a lot). The urine and blood sugar readings were 27.6 mmol/L. I started doing home testing to get more numbers. They went as high as 32.6 but also down to 5.5 mmol/L. The vet couldn't make sense of the readings in terms of fasting/activity/eating--there didn't seem to be any pattern so she sent the record to the Vet College at the university in Guelph. At the same time I changed from average dry cat food to grain-free canned food. The diabetes people at the vet college did not think we should go on insulin due to the fact that sometimes the numbers were within the healthy range for a cat. The advice was to monitor behaviour and drinking/peeing and continue collecting glucose readings periodically. Those excesses (drinking/peeing) stopped almost immediately after the diet started changing and she has never reverted back to that, even during the high blood glucose readings.
Seven weeks after all this started, I took three readings--they ranged between 2.7 and 3.5 mmol/L. Minky has lost a little weight (she wasn't overweight to start with) mostly her "purse" between the back legs.
So, thank you all for the helpful advice and information. I will continue to look after my kitty and poke her ears periodically. It seems that in this case, diet change for a 12 year old cat has made the difference.
Diana
At the beginning of February, Minky was drinking and peeing like a fiend (that's a lot). The urine and blood sugar readings were 27.6 mmol/L. I started doing home testing to get more numbers. They went as high as 32.6 but also down to 5.5 mmol/L. The vet couldn't make sense of the readings in terms of fasting/activity/eating--there didn't seem to be any pattern so she sent the record to the Vet College at the university in Guelph. At the same time I changed from average dry cat food to grain-free canned food. The diabetes people at the vet college did not think we should go on insulin due to the fact that sometimes the numbers were within the healthy range for a cat. The advice was to monitor behaviour and drinking/peeing and continue collecting glucose readings periodically. Those excesses (drinking/peeing) stopped almost immediately after the diet started changing and she has never reverted back to that, even during the high blood glucose readings.
Seven weeks after all this started, I took three readings--they ranged between 2.7 and 3.5 mmol/L. Minky has lost a little weight (she wasn't overweight to start with) mostly her "purse" between the back legs.
So, thank you all for the helpful advice and information. I will continue to look after my kitty and poke her ears periodically. It seems that in this case, diet change for a 12 year old cat has made the difference.
Diana
