Brittany T.
Member Since 2019
Hello everyone,
My cat Twee (12 years old, roughly 9 pounds) was diagnosed on December 14th. I was away on a trip and boarded her at the vet and I'm so glad I did because she got really bad while there despite not displaying any symptoms before I left. We don't know how long she's been dealing with it, but it looks as though we've avoided any internal damage!
She's currently receiving one unit of ProZinc every 12 hours and has a glucose curve scheduled for the 26th.
Today I switched her food from Chewy's American Journey chicken flavor dry food, which is 22% carbs per their website to Blue Buffalo's Wilderness chicken pate, which is 3% carbs according to the CatInfo Food Chart. Her treats have been freeze-dried single ingredient proteins since before the diagnosis. I haven't had any problems with her eating all of her food. Though, she used to be able to free feed her daily serving of kibble, so we're having issues with hunger (or at least what looks like hunger to me). She's never been a vocal cat, but now she's softly meowing at me for more food and it's honestly breaking my heart because I can't tell her why she has to eat this way. She kind of roams around like she's anxious when she sees she has no more food in the bowl. I fed her a half serving of kibble this morning and five ounces of wet food in the evening, so I don't think she's lacking in calories. Tomorrow will be a full day on the canned food. Will she adapt to this new eating schedule?
I also went out and picked up a glucose meter, lancets, and ketone strips today. I tested her a couple of hours before her evening shot and wet food meal (5 pm); it came back as 508. I tested her again about five hours after that, and it was at 275. I will check her again in the morning. I haven't been able to use the ketone strips yet.
Twee has been very good about getting her insulin and having her ears pricked. I find that the injections are a lot easier to give than trying to squirt medicine down her throat or give her a pill. It still feels a little weird to pierce her skin, but I think I'll get used to it. I'm having a hard time with pricking her ears though because she gets a little worked up, but she hasn't been aggressive.
This whole week has been quite the whirlwind of emotion to say the least. Twee's my childhood pet and I just want to do everything I can to make sure the rest of her time is as normal as it can be.
This forum has already helped so much!
My cat Twee (12 years old, roughly 9 pounds) was diagnosed on December 14th. I was away on a trip and boarded her at the vet and I'm so glad I did because she got really bad while there despite not displaying any symptoms before I left. We don't know how long she's been dealing with it, but it looks as though we've avoided any internal damage!
She's currently receiving one unit of ProZinc every 12 hours and has a glucose curve scheduled for the 26th.
Today I switched her food from Chewy's American Journey chicken flavor dry food, which is 22% carbs per their website to Blue Buffalo's Wilderness chicken pate, which is 3% carbs according to the CatInfo Food Chart. Her treats have been freeze-dried single ingredient proteins since before the diagnosis. I haven't had any problems with her eating all of her food. Though, she used to be able to free feed her daily serving of kibble, so we're having issues with hunger (or at least what looks like hunger to me). She's never been a vocal cat, but now she's softly meowing at me for more food and it's honestly breaking my heart because I can't tell her why she has to eat this way. She kind of roams around like she's anxious when she sees she has no more food in the bowl. I fed her a half serving of kibble this morning and five ounces of wet food in the evening, so I don't think she's lacking in calories. Tomorrow will be a full day on the canned food. Will she adapt to this new eating schedule?
I also went out and picked up a glucose meter, lancets, and ketone strips today. I tested her a couple of hours before her evening shot and wet food meal (5 pm); it came back as 508. I tested her again about five hours after that, and it was at 275. I will check her again in the morning. I haven't been able to use the ketone strips yet.
Twee has been very good about getting her insulin and having her ears pricked. I find that the injections are a lot easier to give than trying to squirt medicine down her throat or give her a pill. It still feels a little weird to pierce her skin, but I think I'll get used to it. I'm having a hard time with pricking her ears though because she gets a little worked up, but she hasn't been aggressive.
This whole week has been quite the whirlwind of emotion to say the least. Twee's my childhood pet and I just want to do everything I can to make sure the rest of her time is as normal as it can be.
This forum has already helped so much!
