Hello everyone. Newbie here from Sydney, Australia and really stressed, looking for advice. Felix is 15.5 years old and I got him to the vet nearly two weeks ago after noticing some weight loss and he’s hungry all the time. No other symptoms . Blood draw showed a high glucose, but due to the vet giving me a HUGE estimate for further tests and being on a pension, I decided to shop around. I am disabled after a bad hip fracture two years ago, so today I had a mobile vet here because I can’t get to a surgery. She took a urine sample, no ketones and more blood for a fructosamine test. Talked about treatment as I am on an age pension and she wanted to start him on Senvelgo if it is confirmed. I think partly because she hasn’t a surgery where he can go for blood curves and I’m not sure that I could do them at home. I have just been reading horror stories about it though…..eDKA etc and I’m now so unsure about how to move forward. I only lost my other beautiful cat last December and I can’t bear the thought of losing Felix, but certainly couldn’t cope with the costs of complications from Senvelgo. She also wanted him to go on a very expensive Hill’s special diet, which would be impossible, but he’s on a wonderful low carb, wet diet anyway. Please can anyone help…..should I stick with the mobile vet…..certainly better for both of us from the stress reduction, or try yet another vet for another opinion.
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