Sammie's Mom
Member Since 2018
Hi!
My Samantha is just newly Dx in late March of this year. She is either 18 or 19 years old, I didn't have her as a kitten, the aunt who had her couldn't remember if she was born in 99 or 2000. The vet has her down as 19, which I am wondering if it is right because I have several people say she looks good for a 19 year old cat. She stay at the vets for a week at first trying to get her dose right, the vet said her numbers were all over the place, but they started her on 1 and 1/2 units, twice daily. The vet did a curb on her about a month later and raise it to 2 units, twice daily, she started in the 500's and would be in the 200's at the bottom of the curb. Recently had a bladder infection and I took her to a emergency vet clinic, her numbers 466 7 hours after shot. Took to her regular vet a week later, the vet raise the dose to 2 1/2 units, twice daily, having a number in the 300 at that time.
She is on Prozine now 2 1/2 units twice daily, Hill's prescription diet W/D dry out all day, Fancy Feast Broths twice a day, mostly just drinks the broths, and a few treats for after the shot since I haven't gotten good enough to where she doesn't jump when I try to get her shot. I know bad on my part. I also give her a teaspoon of pumpkin. There are two other no diabetic cats in the house Larry and Daryl, both 9 year grey tabbies. The boys are on Hill's Prescription I/D dry and can, Daryl is the only one who will eat the can food, Larry is mega colon. I do give the boys 1 to 2 broths a day and they mostly just drink the broth.
I really nervous about all this. My vet didn't mention anything about doing daily BG checks before the shot, and mostly he said just to get her to eat, we were having a little trouble getting her to eat the dry food at first. We try giving tuna once, she loved it the first time but then wouldn't eat again. I thinking maybe cause she is so up in age. Don't know.
So I just nervous about giving her the shots, let alone getting doing BG tests on her, I haven't master how to give her shot to her without her jumping most of the time. Any idea what meter should I get to try?
Also she seems really thirsty most of the time, and twice she has been given, by a vet, IV fluids for dehy, once for the bladder infection and a cold in April. She seems to prefer to drink water off the floor of the tile shower, but likes edges and sides of bowls/cups for drinking. I not sure what to do to get her enough water. She wouldn't eat the can food when we started, even with a little chicken broth in it. Seems to be eating the dry better now, not as hard to get her to eat it now.
With the bladder infection she had some sugar in the urine but no ketos. Also I have watched her eat her dry food and she seems to eat the dry food whole, sometimes crunching it.
My Samantha is just newly Dx in late March of this year. She is either 18 or 19 years old, I didn't have her as a kitten, the aunt who had her couldn't remember if she was born in 99 or 2000. The vet has her down as 19, which I am wondering if it is right because I have several people say she looks good for a 19 year old cat. She stay at the vets for a week at first trying to get her dose right, the vet said her numbers were all over the place, but they started her on 1 and 1/2 units, twice daily. The vet did a curb on her about a month later and raise it to 2 units, twice daily, she started in the 500's and would be in the 200's at the bottom of the curb. Recently had a bladder infection and I took her to a emergency vet clinic, her numbers 466 7 hours after shot. Took to her regular vet a week later, the vet raise the dose to 2 1/2 units, twice daily, having a number in the 300 at that time.
She is on Prozine now 2 1/2 units twice daily, Hill's prescription diet W/D dry out all day, Fancy Feast Broths twice a day, mostly just drinks the broths, and a few treats for after the shot since I haven't gotten good enough to where she doesn't jump when I try to get her shot. I know bad on my part. I also give her a teaspoon of pumpkin. There are two other no diabetic cats in the house Larry and Daryl, both 9 year grey tabbies. The boys are on Hill's Prescription I/D dry and can, Daryl is the only one who will eat the can food, Larry is mega colon. I do give the boys 1 to 2 broths a day and they mostly just drink the broth.
I really nervous about all this. My vet didn't mention anything about doing daily BG checks before the shot, and mostly he said just to get her to eat, we were having a little trouble getting her to eat the dry food at first. We try giving tuna once, she loved it the first time but then wouldn't eat again. I thinking maybe cause she is so up in age. Don't know.
So I just nervous about giving her the shots, let alone getting doing BG tests on her, I haven't master how to give her shot to her without her jumping most of the time. Any idea what meter should I get to try?
Also she seems really thirsty most of the time, and twice she has been given, by a vet, IV fluids for dehy, once for the bladder infection and a cold in April. She seems to prefer to drink water off the floor of the tile shower, but likes edges and sides of bowls/cups for drinking. I not sure what to do to get her enough water. She wouldn't eat the can food when we started, even with a little chicken broth in it. Seems to be eating the dry better now, not as hard to get her to eat it now.
With the bladder infection she had some sugar in the urine but no ketos. Also I have watched her eat her dry food and she seems to eat the dry food whole, sometimes crunching it.
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