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PunchKat

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I joined last week and posted about my cat Punch (13 yr old male). His symptoms were excessive drinking so I the vet run a bld panel and it came back high glucose (300).
Since then I've read up a lot, immediately switched his food to all canned high protein low carb (prevsiouly only ate dry food). I feed 2x a day. I saw immediate improvement in the water consumption. The vet wanted to put him on insulin (after getting results from the definitive test) but I told her I was seeing improvement and she said to just try diet for 3-4 weeks. IMO sh'es a pretty knowledgeable vet about most things and keeps up to date.

Anyways, the drinking has decreased by more than 50% easily. Here are his blood test results over the past week

11/19 diagnosed 300 immediately switched diet
11/22 after dinner 101
11/24 before breakfast 99
11/28 before breakfast 83 after breakfast (45 minutes) 77

so seems like he is doing well with just the diet switch. I will talk to the vet soon.
How would you proceed from here? Keep the diet the same seems obvious- how often to test BG. Should I have the vet retest him? Do the readings make sense? Comments?

Anyways, a big thanks for this board since all the info helped me keep him from even starting insulin and right now seems like he is doing well.
 
Good job! Those do not look like diabetic numbers. I can't think of any reason why you need to have the vet test. Congratulations on home testing and getting to know so much so fast!
 
Those are beautiful non-diabetic numbers..as to where you go from here. Keep the diet the same! Obviously. But as far as testing goes, at least this is what I have been doing with my guy that is recently OTJ. I tested twice a day (around when I would usually give a shot) for about a week, then I went to once a week for this last month. Now we only test once a month or if something just seems "off" or like the other night awhile back when I find him whiskers deep in a bowl of pasta.

Mel & Max
 
thanks- funny about whiskers deep in the pasta bowl- found him doing just that 2 nights ago! Scared me. He steals food all the time so we have to be even more careful these days.
 
lol Yep you learn quickly to keep anything carb related under lock and key...lol.

Of course thanks to Max and his help in the kitchen this was the best my kitchen ever looked after I finished cooking the Thanksgiving dinner. I made sure I had everything rinsed off and stacked as I went. Even tried to ignore the dirty dishes until the next day but got worried about him getting into someone's unfinished potatoes or gravy so got up at 2am to wash them. :lol: Things we will do to keep our kitties safe!

Mel & Max
 
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