New diagnosed diabetic cat - loss of all cuddles .

[CORKY]

With her BG off the wall she needs a high dose to try reduce it ?and if it’s not working, need to go higher ?

You should not continue to raise the dose on a whim because her BG is high , you are not testing you are going to end up with hyperglycemia or worse, please wait till Suzanne or another member on dosing plugs in, but I doubt you will get dosing advice without knowing, even yourself your cats glucose level
@Marje and Gracie

 

[CORKY]

Big off the wall by observation of thirst , hunger and meeowing

That is not enough to know

 

[CORKY]

Will ask her to fit a monitor even if it does fall off .

in any case you should always have an extra one and they do last only 14 days, so is good to have an extra one, you want continuous readings without interruptions

 

[Marje and Gracie]

Here is the difficulty in us recommending a starting dose for PZ without seeing any data at all. I understand you haven’t been testing due to your vets’ incorrect info.

Most cats do what we call “bouncing” which means if the BG drops low or fast, the liver releases counterregulatory hormones to bring it up so if the vet tests when she’s bouncing from a low, they will continue to raise the dose.

When stating you could start her at the Caninsulin dose or a little less, I mistakenly thought you had home testing data but since you don’t, it is safer to start her at 1u twice a day as long as you start home testing her at every time before you shoot and then randomly a few times in the cycle so we can see what she’s actually doing.

Once we have a few cycles of data to make sure she’s not dropping low, we can fast track the dose up.

A Libre CGM will also help you during this time and give you a chance to learn to home test.

If you need help with the spreadsheet, I can do it for you if you send me a private message by clicking my user name under my kitty’s photo and then “send direct message”.

 

[Suzanne & Darcy]

If I gave her as much food as she wanted then she would eat far too much and her glucose would spike as her body cannot absorb it. This would cause damage and risk of death ?

No. If you feed low carb wet food her BG will not spike due to food consumption. That is incorrect. However, if you continue to feed dry, high carb food, her blood glucose will increase from that food and she will be very hard to regulate.

She goes nuts with the meeowing for food from about midday onwards. So desperate she even eats grass in the garden. She wont touch the lovely cat grass I have growing in a tub inside . When I eat my meal she aggressively tries to get some by swiping at it.

You absolutely need to feed her more. If she doesn’t have enough food, you risk high ketones. With ProZinc, I recommend food at shot time (the main meal) and food at +2 (two hours after the shot) and food at +4 (four hours after the shot) and perhaps even more food at +6 in your case because she is underweight. This will not harm her; this will help her. It will first of all help to prevent steep drops in blood glucose (BG) and it will help her to feel better and not be starving all the time (which honestly is just horrible.) It isn’t misbehavior, her body is starving if she is in very high BG because she cannot make use of the food she’s taking in.

 

[CORKY]

Please keep us posted weather you want a member to help you create the spreadsheet, and if you saw the Vet and what was the results, good luck