Britta and Regs
Member Since 2026
Hey everyone, I thought I introduce us, my sugar kitty Regs and me, Britta, here really quick.
Regs was diagnosed in April after he lost a lot of weight. The vet put him on Vetsulin first and we couldn't get the sugar under control, it was always an up and down (and I mean each cycle going from 400 to 140 back to 450) and on top of that, Regs got a congestive heart failure in May and a hypo from the Vetsulin in the end of June. So I did a little research and I found out that Vetsulin/Caninsulin was really not the right insulin for him. I asked the vet if we could switch him to Lantus and we did 2 weeks ago. He is only getting vet food, a lot of it, mostly fancy feast pate or flaked tuna or chunked chicken but is there ant other food that would be good for a diabetic cat? Very cat like he does not touch any diabetes food
Now we do not have the ups and downs that bad anymore but we are fighting constantly high sugars. Interestingly his sugars during the cycle are higher than the pres, not sure what is going on there.
Regs takes it like a little kitty champ and he doesn't care if he das a 250 or 600 sugar but I really run out of patience and just want him to be better. Did anyone have a similar situation and could share their story , has a hint what we could do better or has some words of encouragement?
Regs was diagnosed in April after he lost a lot of weight. The vet put him on Vetsulin first and we couldn't get the sugar under control, it was always an up and down (and I mean each cycle going from 400 to 140 back to 450) and on top of that, Regs got a congestive heart failure in May and a hypo from the Vetsulin in the end of June. So I did a little research and I found out that Vetsulin/Caninsulin was really not the right insulin for him. I asked the vet if we could switch him to Lantus and we did 2 weeks ago. He is only getting vet food, a lot of it, mostly fancy feast pate or flaked tuna or chunked chicken but is there ant other food that would be good for a diabetic cat? Very cat like he does not touch any diabetes food
Now we do not have the ups and downs that bad anymore but we are fighting constantly high sugars. Interestingly his sugars during the cycle are higher than the pres, not sure what is going on there.
Regs takes it like a little kitty champ and he doesn't care if he das a 250 or 600 sugar but I really run out of patience and just want him to be better. Did anyone have a similar situation and could share their story , has a hint what we could do better or has some words of encouragement?
