Louise1989
Member Since 2016
Hi all,
Monty was diagnosed in March after dramatically loosing weigh and have severe diarrhoea. They found the diabetes by "accident" he was very high 32 (576) we started on insulin, he stayed at the vets for a day for a curve but until we could sort the diarrhoea we weren't going to be able to control the diabetes. on his curve day the lowest he reached was 28 (504). We were given medication for his tummy but again we still had no luck and they decided surgery was the only option to see what was going on inside, as after an ultra sound they saw a shadow.
Surgery day come, there was what they thought was a large tumour on his pancreas the vet called me whilst he was on the operating table and told me what she had found and asked what I wanted to do... have him PTS, take biopsy's, or just leave him. I asked her opinion she said she is pretty sure its a tumour and looked aggressive but without biospeys she wouldn't know, in himself he had been totally happy playing around eating and drinking well - so we decided to wait and see what the biopseys came back at (much to my husbands disapproval, he said we were mean, but how can you just let them go when there is hope?)
5 days later I get a phone call - my vet screaming down the phone ... its only pancreatitis no cancer! She was over the moon just as much as I was! at a poo 2.8KG we took him back to the vet they boarded him for a week and managed to sort his diarrhoea out - he came back home and within 24 hours later he was back to square one again... we had this for several weeks... we took him home one last time on the agreement we were going to mimic the vets in a portion of our house as we are now thinking its stress ( I have 2 other cats) and if after a month we couldn't sort it the vets were going to keep him as a vet cat and I could go and visit as much as I wanted, they had fallen in love with him. After many adjustments and patience we finally started getting somewhere - we were starting to control the diarrheoa at home, and we started learning what was making him worse.
nearly 3 months on we are off all prescription drugs for the diarrhoea, he just has pumpkin which we have found he still 100% needs as we forgot for two days and we notices straight away. His diabetes is pretty controlled by his standards and he is a healthy 4.3kg at the moment. the last curve at the vets he was between 24 and 28 all day, but we have come home and done lots of research lots of advice online and we also run everything by our vet and have a new dosage scale that seems to suit Monty well 90% of the time, we are currently discussing actually dropping his dose for the second time :> as he randomly chucks some dangerous lows at us.
so yea, Hello all sorry I baffled on for so long I shall find the correct forum to post his numbers etc
xx
Monty was diagnosed in March after dramatically loosing weigh and have severe diarrhoea. They found the diabetes by "accident" he was very high 32 (576) we started on insulin, he stayed at the vets for a day for a curve but until we could sort the diarrhoea we weren't going to be able to control the diabetes. on his curve day the lowest he reached was 28 (504). We were given medication for his tummy but again we still had no luck and they decided surgery was the only option to see what was going on inside, as after an ultra sound they saw a shadow.
Surgery day come, there was what they thought was a large tumour on his pancreas the vet called me whilst he was on the operating table and told me what she had found and asked what I wanted to do... have him PTS, take biopsy's, or just leave him. I asked her opinion she said she is pretty sure its a tumour and looked aggressive but without biospeys she wouldn't know, in himself he had been totally happy playing around eating and drinking well - so we decided to wait and see what the biopseys came back at (much to my husbands disapproval, he said we were mean, but how can you just let them go when there is hope?)
5 days later I get a phone call - my vet screaming down the phone ... its only pancreatitis no cancer! She was over the moon just as much as I was! at a poo 2.8KG we took him back to the vet they boarded him for a week and managed to sort his diarrhoea out - he came back home and within 24 hours later he was back to square one again... we had this for several weeks... we took him home one last time on the agreement we were going to mimic the vets in a portion of our house as we are now thinking its stress ( I have 2 other cats) and if after a month we couldn't sort it the vets were going to keep him as a vet cat and I could go and visit as much as I wanted, they had fallen in love with him. After many adjustments and patience we finally started getting somewhere - we were starting to control the diarrheoa at home, and we started learning what was making him worse.
nearly 3 months on we are off all prescription drugs for the diarrhoea, he just has pumpkin which we have found he still 100% needs as we forgot for two days and we notices straight away. His diabetes is pretty controlled by his standards and he is a healthy 4.3kg at the moment. the last curve at the vets he was between 24 and 28 all day, but we have come home and done lots of research lots of advice online and we also run everything by our vet and have a new dosage scale that seems to suit Monty well 90% of the time, we are currently discussing actually dropping his dose for the second time :> as he randomly chucks some dangerous lows at us.
so yea, Hello all sorry I baffled on for so long I shall find the correct forum to post his numbers etc
xx
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