mielconejo
Member Since 2026
Hello everybody! I am conejo, a colombian girl with 2 10 year old cats I found when they were very small in my country house: Zero and Sigma. Zero has recently been diagnosed with a complex digestive inflammatory issue that has made him vomit almost daily for a long time, this issue is causing him to get high blood sugar even though his fructosamine test came back in the normal range, so obviously the first step for treatment is to treat as if he were diabetic to get his glucose levels down.
I've been home testing for 5 weeks, have watched tons and tons of videos and read thousands of forums, gone back and forth with the vet and still, 5 weeks in, Zero is very problematic at the time of testing. He has never been an aggressive cat but he is turning very aggressive every time it's test time. He is also not a good bleeder which means i need to prick his ears 2 or more times for one drop of blood big enough for the strip. I've lost tons of strips and lancets, he now bites me every time and i can tell he is super stressed which worries me that the high stress levels are getting his glucose readings way higher at the time of testing.
Even though he has shown a lot of clinical and behavioral improvements once the treatment began, his energy levels and hunger levels are both up, his vomiting has receded (went from every day to 2 times in the past 5 weeks) we still can't get a quiet testing and insuline shot session in. And I only have to test before the shot, so in the am and in the pm. he reacts strongly to the insuline shot reacting violently even when i am just grabbing his skin and not even inserted the needle yet. There have been tons of shots that I am left wondering if the insuline went in or if it was just a fur shot because he jumped or moved violently the second i inserted the needle, even yhough i usually have him straddled.
Many times i have had to give the shot without a reading and I end up so frustrated, mad at him and sad that I'm not making it work. I've tried rituals, setting him at the same time in the same spot, warming his ears with a rice sock, playing soft calming music to relax him, giving him lots of cuddles, and rubbing his ears so they warm a lot, but all through that I still can see he is extremely stressed, swinging his tale around and miaowing in complaint. He knows it's test time and he does not relax even though I take time to really pamper him.
I have also tried with just quick sessions with just quickly prick with no preamble to try to avoid the pre-stress and rejection, and still, he attacks. it's been 5 weeks already, i thought it would have gotten easier by now. I found this forum and decided to ask because all the videos i see on techniques to apply insuline and home test none of them show a highly reactive cat like mine.
if anyone has gone through this same scenario please advice, i am very frustrated and i hate yelling at him after getting attacked, but i KNOW this is not as painful as he makes it out to be, he attacks and complains as if it hurt even when i am just placing the gauze under his ear, so i know it is not the prick. can't figure out how to move on.
thank you for any advice in advance.
I've been home testing for 5 weeks, have watched tons and tons of videos and read thousands of forums, gone back and forth with the vet and still, 5 weeks in, Zero is very problematic at the time of testing. He has never been an aggressive cat but he is turning very aggressive every time it's test time. He is also not a good bleeder which means i need to prick his ears 2 or more times for one drop of blood big enough for the strip. I've lost tons of strips and lancets, he now bites me every time and i can tell he is super stressed which worries me that the high stress levels are getting his glucose readings way higher at the time of testing.
Even though he has shown a lot of clinical and behavioral improvements once the treatment began, his energy levels and hunger levels are both up, his vomiting has receded (went from every day to 2 times in the past 5 weeks) we still can't get a quiet testing and insuline shot session in. And I only have to test before the shot, so in the am and in the pm. he reacts strongly to the insuline shot reacting violently even when i am just grabbing his skin and not even inserted the needle yet. There have been tons of shots that I am left wondering if the insuline went in or if it was just a fur shot because he jumped or moved violently the second i inserted the needle, even yhough i usually have him straddled.
Many times i have had to give the shot without a reading and I end up so frustrated, mad at him and sad that I'm not making it work. I've tried rituals, setting him at the same time in the same spot, warming his ears with a rice sock, playing soft calming music to relax him, giving him lots of cuddles, and rubbing his ears so they warm a lot, but all through that I still can see he is extremely stressed, swinging his tale around and miaowing in complaint. He knows it's test time and he does not relax even though I take time to really pamper him.
I have also tried with just quick sessions with just quickly prick with no preamble to try to avoid the pre-stress and rejection, and still, he attacks. it's been 5 weeks already, i thought it would have gotten easier by now. I found this forum and decided to ask because all the videos i see on techniques to apply insuline and home test none of them show a highly reactive cat like mine.
if anyone has gone through this same scenario please advice, i am very frustrated and i hate yelling at him after getting attacked, but i KNOW this is not as painful as he makes it out to be, he attacks and complains as if it hurt even when i am just placing the gauze under his ear, so i know it is not the prick. can't figure out how to move on.
thank you for any advice in advance.
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