sigh, new board really hates me. just spent 1/2 hour writing a post and lost it after hitting post! grrrrrrrrr. okay will retype, but gonna be a way shorter version!
nichole, i just read your PM and i cannot find a condo for you today so is okay if i answer here?
"***Question*** Bouncing is obviously not good, neither is surfing the 200s... is Baby better off not on Insulin & surfing the 200 range... or is it best to be on Insulin & have this bouncing around??"
who says bouncing is not good? there is nothing wrong with bouncing, it is a normal, natural phase (fondly referred to here as LTS~liver training school) that all diabetic cats must go through to get anywhere. if insulin was removed and she was allowed to just hang around the 200's what would happen is that the remaining functioning beta cells in her pancreas would get damaged and you would end up with a cat in very very high numbers with 'burnt out' beta cells and no chance of remission that would have to be on insulin forever. the opposite of what you want. everyone has to go through LTS, dropping out of school is not an option. (cause then she'll have to work at the car wash and live in a underground apt in the south bronx....well that's what my mom always said that is what happens to dropouts. lol).
every minute that she spends in normal numbers gives her pancreas time to heal. so she bounces afterward, is okay, she is suppose to at this point, only been on insulin for barely a month. rome wasn't built in a day and livers don't learn in a day.* but stay in school and study hard and one day she will graduate and then you'll have a SS that will cause nothing but smiles when you look at it.
really i see nothing in your SS that is concerning, in fact she is actually way ahead of the curve. suggest you go to the list of SS's and take a look at everyone's first month or two on insulin. we'll even slant it by looking at only the OTJ kitties SS's (hey there is over a 100 there alone). start with D/noisy's first month and you'll see what i mean by ahead of the curve. so many cats have to spend their first month working up to a dose that can enroll them in LTS, baby is lucky, she got a scholarship and went straight to school! really all is well here, i always tell people to follow their cat's lead. if cat is unconcerned about number on meter then you should be too. and really cat doesn't care if number is 50 or 250, the notes on the side of your SS even say that. this all just takes time. just keep showing her normal numbers whenever you can and give her pancreas the opportunity heal. k?
i hope that answered your question. was a good question, which many have asked or thought about before. remember regulation or remission although handed to a few on a silver platter (we've all seen the 2 shots and off insulin or 2 weeks and off insulin cats) for the vast majority of us we have to work for it. but there is nothing not one thing in baby's SS that says that either of those is not going to happen. so relax and hang in there, and enjoy your cat. she is healthy and that is what is important, those numbers will sort out as time passes and she moves up through the grades of LTS.
~jojo
* for others reading this, is it actually way more complicated that just blaming everything on 'the liver' but that short hand is really all that is needed to do manage a diabetic cat very successfully. for those that have the inclination and time and want to immerse themselves in the physiology of feline diabetes, by all means go for it, but it really won't help you manage your cat's diabetes any better. one doesn't need to know on a cellular level what is happening to read a SS. ;-)
