Sherlock_love
Member Since 2026
Hello,
I am new here from the UK. Thank you for even existing, I did not know until a friend recommended you.
My lovely 9 year old cat Sherlock was diagnosed with diabetes in April 2025. She was losing a lot of weight and after a few tests she was diagnosed. In May 2025 she had a DKA episode. I cannot remember the insulin name she was on initially. She was hospitalised for two days and then her recovery took a little bit of time.
We normally feed her a blend of wet food (Harringtons) and dry diabetic food.
During the heatwave last two weeks, she was eating less and less, we injected her less (our mistake - should have checked her bg first) and she started feeling lethargic. She had started losing weight so took her to the vets where they found out that her ketones were high (7) and she needed hospitalisation.
I have updated my signature with her spreadsheet - hopefully done the right way. Her ketones now are all cleared out which is such a relief. However, she is not eating well. Her bg needs to be a lot lower too esp with the dose. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I'm feeling very tired and sad and financially broken after this. It is hard to get blood out of her as well hence there's not as many blood tests done.
My questions are:
1) Do I need to switch insulin?
2) Is her body still adjusting from the DKA episode? Has she become insulin-resistant?
3) Why is she not eating as much - do I need an appetite stimulant and is that available in the UK? Her normal self eats 3 pouches of wet food and some dry food. Now we have dropped to the equivalent of barely 1 during the day.
4) Why is the bg still high after adjusting the dose 4 days ago? For context since the diabetes started she has never dropped consistently lower than 10 so we would be happy with something similar.
We have a rotation of food: tuna, tuna water, chicken, harringtons mixed meat, harringtons mixed fish, lickalix, treats, diabetic cat dry food and honestly we try to go for the healthy ones but there are days during this recovery that she becomes so difficult that I give her anything that she will take.
Our vets charge £60 for phone consultations so I am trying to gather as much information as I can before arranging the next one as this is really difficult financially.
Even though we paid a lot for her overnight hospitalisation I still have not received her test results from the clinic from her 48 hours stay. She had done a fructosamine test in there too. This time the clinic felt like they were too busy to give us instructions for after care etc.
Thank you so much for any advice
Sherlock's mum
I am new here from the UK. Thank you for even existing, I did not know until a friend recommended you.
My lovely 9 year old cat Sherlock was diagnosed with diabetes in April 2025. She was losing a lot of weight and after a few tests she was diagnosed. In May 2025 she had a DKA episode. I cannot remember the insulin name she was on initially. She was hospitalised for two days and then her recovery took a little bit of time.
We normally feed her a blend of wet food (Harringtons) and dry diabetic food.
During the heatwave last two weeks, she was eating less and less, we injected her less (our mistake - should have checked her bg first) and she started feeling lethargic. She had started losing weight so took her to the vets where they found out that her ketones were high (7) and she needed hospitalisation.
I have updated my signature with her spreadsheet - hopefully done the right way. Her ketones now are all cleared out which is such a relief. However, she is not eating well. Her bg needs to be a lot lower too esp with the dose. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I'm feeling very tired and sad and financially broken after this. It is hard to get blood out of her as well hence there's not as many blood tests done.
My questions are:
1) Do I need to switch insulin?
2) Is her body still adjusting from the DKA episode? Has she become insulin-resistant?
3) Why is she not eating as much - do I need an appetite stimulant and is that available in the UK? Her normal self eats 3 pouches of wet food and some dry food. Now we have dropped to the equivalent of barely 1 during the day.
4) Why is the bg still high after adjusting the dose 4 days ago? For context since the diabetes started she has never dropped consistently lower than 10 so we would be happy with something similar.
We have a rotation of food: tuna, tuna water, chicken, harringtons mixed meat, harringtons mixed fish, lickalix, treats, diabetic cat dry food and honestly we try to go for the healthy ones but there are days during this recovery that she becomes so difficult that I give her anything that she will take.
Our vets charge £60 for phone consultations so I am trying to gather as much information as I can before arranging the next one as this is really difficult financially.
Even though we paid a lot for her overnight hospitalisation I still have not received her test results from the clinic from her 48 hours stay. She had done a fructosamine test in there too. This time the clinic felt like they were too busy to give us instructions for after care etc.
Thank you so much for any advice
Sherlock's mum
