Thank you all for your support.
Vets: I don't find many vets in his corner for this and for his other elements. When I took him to the u for surgery, every vet in the practice said the wouldn't do it if it was their pet. Before that, I was told nobody did the surgery he needed. I didn't accept that in this day and age the surgery wasn't done on animals. My wounds are fresh from the surgery. Approx 9 animal (all species) have the surgery done per year.
I have an excel spread sheet I made. So, with my limited tool box and the cat's immediate need. Fast acting insulin can bring him some relief, is my hope.
Hi
On the spreadsheet, let one of the members on here set it up for you. I have given access to a few members to help me with mine. You will want to keep good notes on feeding and vomiting. As well as other notes of things that happen.
This will help show a pattern of what is going on.
I completely understand about vets, I had four different vets at two different locations tell me to put my cat down.
They were clearly wrong and I was right.
The reason for the long acting insulin is to bring them down safely over slamming them down. Our vet had the mindset they needed to get her numbers down now. This caused a crap load of other problems such as kidney failur, she turned bright yellow, gums turned dark gray. At one point I had to take control because everything the vets were doing made things worst. One of the vets even paid for his tech to come to our house and pick up our cat to run tests on her. He did not believe the cat was still alive. During our meeting he said he was treating her numbers while I was treating the cat. Clearly I was right and he was wrong.
If I was you I would be looking for a cat clinic where you live, if none, start calling around and ask what experience does the vet have with feline diabetes prior to bringing the cat into see them.
Our last vet was more like an ER with almost never seeing the same vet twice. The final straw was when I was given a newer vet to this location and I showed her my spreadsheet and was explaining about the reductions I had been giving our cat. The vet said I should never increase or reduce her insulin without the advise of the vet first. I lit this vet up!
I was over me knowing more then them and paying them for a visit. Enough is a enough!
I then started with a series of questions.(note to self, if I ever start asking a series of questions this is to make you look like an idiot)
I then had to explain to this vet that her line of thinking would have killed my cat if I followed her advise. Please read all of my cats file notes prior to me seeing her and me.
After this last visit I asked my wife to find us a new vet.
The new vet was sent all of our cats records. She read through them prior to our visit. She explained to me that most vets follow this same procedure because this is what they were taught. She said I was correct is everything I had done and that it looked like I was keeping things under control, good job.
She also noted that the steroid that was used on our cat most likely caused this problem. She explained that this storied is knowned for causing debities. She would have never used this on our cat.
