Tbobaggins
Member Since 2017
Hey there,
My girlfriends cat Pax was recently diagnosed as a diabetic. He's approximately 9 years old and weight 16.2lbs at the visit of his diagnosis. He was originally on a strict dry food diet and we originally brought him because he started laying by his water bowl and urinating a LOT.
It has been about a month and the first thing we did was we slowly weened him off dry food and on to a wet food with a feeding, with a small scoop of evo dry food in the morning and at night with his shots. He first tested in the low 400s and the vet started him on 1U of Lantus. After two weeks we brought him in for a curve testing he was in the low 300s. The vet had us bring him to 2U. His curve testing didn't go that great at the vet so we bought an Advocate Pettest unit and tried it out about a week after being on 2U. Unfortunately our testing showed him to be in the 400s again at what should have been his lowest point. We tried doing a few tests at the lowest point of a few different days, but kept seeing similar results. I decided to invest in an Alphatrak, since the Pet test didn't have the best reviews, but again he tested at 455 approximately 4 hours after his shot tonight. I also want to add he has dropped approximately 1-1.5 lbs in the last month or so on his diet.
Any thoughts as to what is going on? We really don't want to take him in for another curve testing because he handled it very poorly..though it doesn't make sense why his numbers haven't changed. He no longer sits by the water bowl nor does he urinate large amounts. He seems to be less lethargic and is out playing again, too.
Thanks for any help that can be given!
My girlfriends cat Pax was recently diagnosed as a diabetic. He's approximately 9 years old and weight 16.2lbs at the visit of his diagnosis. He was originally on a strict dry food diet and we originally brought him because he started laying by his water bowl and urinating a LOT.
It has been about a month and the first thing we did was we slowly weened him off dry food and on to a wet food with a feeding, with a small scoop of evo dry food in the morning and at night with his shots. He first tested in the low 400s and the vet started him on 1U of Lantus. After two weeks we brought him in for a curve testing he was in the low 300s. The vet had us bring him to 2U. His curve testing didn't go that great at the vet so we bought an Advocate Pettest unit and tried it out about a week after being on 2U. Unfortunately our testing showed him to be in the 400s again at what should have been his lowest point. We tried doing a few tests at the lowest point of a few different days, but kept seeing similar results. I decided to invest in an Alphatrak, since the Pet test didn't have the best reviews, but again he tested at 455 approximately 4 hours after his shot tonight. I also want to add he has dropped approximately 1-1.5 lbs in the last month or so on his diet.
Any thoughts as to what is going on? We really don't want to take him in for another curve testing because he handled it very poorly..though it doesn't make sense why his numbers haven't changed. He no longer sits by the water bowl nor does he urinate large amounts. He seems to be less lethargic and is out playing again, too.
Thanks for any help that can be given!
