My cat was recently diagnosed but her glucose levels aren't that high. At vet's she ranged from 258 to 78 with 4 tests over a period of a day. My Vet told me she only needed to be treated by diet....She gave me Royal Canine Diabetic dry food and told me to give her 80 grams per day in 4 servings. The reason I brought my cat in was because she always seemed hungry....famished....and she got very very fat, I put her on a diet, she got down to about 12 pounds....still fat but not like before but her hunger was alarming.When I was told she was diabetic by the vet I immediately started researching and through your organization found that wrong diet (dry food) may cause diabetes and that the best diet is very low carb. and no dry food is that at all. I have no access to the excellent canned cat foods like in USA here, but found one called Almo which seems okay. The problem is that when I tried feeding this to my cat instead of the Royal canine dry diabetic she became even more frantically hungry. I went back on the ROyal Canine, she seems a bit more stable. I got a Glaucometer (sp?) and am just learning to test my cat.... a little challenging but will keep trying until I get it right. My vet said I should be testing her 4 times a day but I don't know if she''ll tolerate this. At this point she runs away when she sees me and I've only had one successful test out of 3 (she tested 100 today an hour after eating but she didn't eat that much of her food and didn't seem hungry which was puzzling).
My biggest questions are: How many times should I be testing her? What should I do about her diet....should I stick to the Roayl Canine Diabetic cat food which seems to be bringing a bit of improvement or is that counter-productive? How can I best help her? I have read that in early stages like this reversal is possible. But if she were ever reversed would she still be an overeater who would then become diabetic again? Very confused!!!! Would very much appreciate input. And Thank-you! Kate
My biggest questions are: How many times should I be testing her? What should I do about her diet....should I stick to the Roayl Canine Diabetic cat food which seems to be bringing a bit of improvement or is that counter-productive? How can I best help her? I have read that in early stages like this reversal is possible. But if she were ever reversed would she still be an overeater who would then become diabetic again? Very confused!!!! Would very much appreciate input. And Thank-you! Kate
