Newly diagnosed and STILL struggling

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UGH! It looks like Max and I can't get our acts together. In my previous post I documented our struggle with being newly diagnosed and trying to also control pancreatitis or IBD. Last night, Max ate some of his dry Royal Canin HP food (having previously been on Purina DM which trippgered a pancreatitis episode). He proceeded to vomit all that he had eaten. He ate the vomitted food, but never finished the rest of his food. Supplemented with chicken baby food in hopes that it would stimulate his appetite. Max ate the baby food, but still left the rest of the Roayal Canin HP. Other than not eating much, the rest of the evening went well. Fed Max his Roayal Canin HP (dry) this a.m., but he took a couple of bites and refused the rest. Again I gave him chicken baby food which he ate (about 2 oz.) so gave him his injection (.5 U Lantus). I became concerned that he never ate anything more than the baby food, so I took him to the vet about 30 minutes ago. They did a glucose test on him which came back at 450! I left him for fluids and a follow-up glucose test. Any suggestions about feeding him (so he'll eat) and continuing to give him insulin. I'm heading out for a home monitoring test this morning. I just need him to eat!

Thanks!
Heidi
 
While he's at the vet, call the office and have them do a test for pancreatitis, fPLI test.
If that test is negative, you can eliminate pancreatitis as the problem.
The feeding of dry food is going to result in the high numbers, so the 450 is not surprising at all.
You can save the expense of taking Max to the vet for fluids; when you pick him up, also get a fluids kit to have at home. You can get the vet tech to show you how to give fluids while you are there, and you can also have them show you how to test to see if Max is dehydrated or not.

It's much less stressful on the cats if they can get their fluids at home.

And if he is not eating the dry food, remove it! It will be a perfect time to switch him to all wet now.

If you were to start home testing, you would know what max's BG are at home while he is not stressed as at the vet. Then you will know more on how he is doing.
 
Personally I like the Micro that is the one that I use for Maxwell.

Mel, Maxwell, Musette & The Fur Gang
 
Hi!

Good job on getting ready to start home testing! yay!

When my cat Elie was just diagnosed and ill (lethargic, not eating, circling, etc...), we had a lot of trouble getting him to eat. We were formerly feeding mostly dry food and made the switch to wet food immediately. Since Elie was not feeling well at all and seemingly dizzy...we had to hand feed him whatever he would be willing to eat for the first week just to get some calories in him. We put his wet food on a plate and lifted the plate up to his nose to eat...I followed him around the house until I was satisfied with how much he ate. We even spoon fed him. We were initally told to feed him every 12 hours, but that didn't work for Elie (he "hunger" puked at hour 10), and there are many here who feed small meals throughout the day rather than big meals...and it works well.

We were given an appetite stimulant by the vet...it helped.
We were given vitamin B to give Elie twice a day...it really helped and he loves it!
Elie was put on antibiotics for a possible infection...he hated it, but we snuck it between his syringe feeding of Vitamin B's lol hehe.

The vet tried to give Elie fluids at the clinic...but Elie decided to attack instead lol. We opted to mix about a tsp-tbsp of water into his food at home.

I can't say enough about the benefits of a wet food diet over hard food in relation to overall health and BG regulation. It is remarkable...the difference it makes. There are some great low carb/high protein wet foods out there...definitely worth trying.
 
We use the ReliOn Confirm, but right off, I can't remember why I chose that one. We did find the strips cheaper online than buying at Walmart. They come to $.28/strip http://www.americandiabeteswholesal...lucose-test-strips_4050.htm?source=SiteSearch

Our cats were strictly kibble (with wet as a bedtime treat) until Hershey was diagnosed in Nov, 2011. We immediately (before starting insulin) switched to all canned. We went with Wellness (also found it cheaper online - I'm all about shopping around!) but there are lots of choices on Binky's list. Don't know if it'll help your situation or not, but I've found Hershey likes water mixed with his food.

Take care -

Libby (and Hershey, too!)
 
Be careful with the change from dry food, you really should be home testing first because the dietary change alone can dramatically reduce or even eliminate the need for insulin.
 
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