Lisa and Eddy
Member Since 2021
Can anyone recommend a vet in south jersey or philadelphia area that is especially well-versed in treating feline diabetes?
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Katherine&Ruby
Member Since 2020
Hi Lisa, I'm in northern NJ (Jersey City) but I know that Red Bank in Tinton Falls has some excellent doctors. You'll want to get him to see an internal medicine specialist, as they tend to be much better versed in feline diabetes than your standard DVM. However, what I and many others have found is that there are one in a million vets who understand feline diabetes as well as members of the FDMB.
You said in a previous post though that you're working with a cat vet now? Is that not working well?
You said in a previous post though that you're working with a cat vet now? Is that not working well?
Dyana
Member Since 2009
Hi Lisa.
When my kitty was first diagnosed, I searched desperately for a vet that I felt knew more than the average vet about diabetes, and I found none.
My regular vet at the time, called himself a "Prozinc man" and I just had to settle for that vet as he had been our vet for a long time.
We are on the western border or central New Jersey.
That winter around this time, my kitty went into DKA and I took him to the ER in Somerville. Because (at that time) they were only open at nights and on weekends, and it was the wee hours of Monday morning, they said I needed to get him to a 24 hour hospital and they gave me a choice of Red Bank in Tinton Falls or the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in Philadelphia. Both were more than an hour from Somerville. J.D. was hospitalized and survived his DKA at UPenn where he was monitored by lots of doctors. I asked that doctor if we could switch to Lantus and she wrote me a prescription.
When he was 18 and needed a dental and my regular vet would not give him one, I took him to Red Bank in Tinton Falls. I was very impressed with that hospital as well.
Both are great hospitals, but I never used them as a regular vet as they were too far away for me.
I did take J.D. to the Red Bank office in Hillsborough to get a second opinion on his blood pressure, and the internal medicine doctor that I paid $220 to see, lectured me for 45 minutes on the Somolgyi effect and said I should take him off of insulin. As I was already following the advice I received on FDMB, I just nodded politely to her. Eventually she took him into a back room to get the blood pressure test, and when she brought him back I asked what his results were and she said she didn't remember but would mail them to me. About a week later I received a piece of paper with 160 written on it. That was all. I was pretty disappointed with this IM doctor.
I followed the advice I received here on this site for my kitty for about 8 years and although my kitty never became well regulated, he happily lived to be 20 years old.
In the 16 years since J.D. was diagnosed, I never found a vet I felt knew as much as the people here do about diabetes. I recommend FDMB to everyone with a diabetic kitty.
When my kitty was first diagnosed, I searched desperately for a vet that I felt knew more than the average vet about diabetes, and I found none.
My regular vet at the time, called himself a "Prozinc man" and I just had to settle for that vet as he had been our vet for a long time.
We are on the western border or central New Jersey.
That winter around this time, my kitty went into DKA and I took him to the ER in Somerville. Because (at that time) they were only open at nights and on weekends, and it was the wee hours of Monday morning, they said I needed to get him to a 24 hour hospital and they gave me a choice of Red Bank in Tinton Falls or the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in Philadelphia. Both were more than an hour from Somerville. J.D. was hospitalized and survived his DKA at UPenn where he was monitored by lots of doctors. I asked that doctor if we could switch to Lantus and she wrote me a prescription.
When he was 18 and needed a dental and my regular vet would not give him one, I took him to Red Bank in Tinton Falls. I was very impressed with that hospital as well.
Both are great hospitals, but I never used them as a regular vet as they were too far away for me.
I did take J.D. to the Red Bank office in Hillsborough to get a second opinion on his blood pressure, and the internal medicine doctor that I paid $220 to see, lectured me for 45 minutes on the Somolgyi effect and said I should take him off of insulin. As I was already following the advice I received on FDMB, I just nodded politely to her. Eventually she took him into a back room to get the blood pressure test, and when she brought him back I asked what his results were and she said she didn't remember but would mail them to me. About a week later I received a piece of paper with 160 written on it. That was all. I was pretty disappointed with this IM doctor.
I followed the advice I received here on this site for my kitty for about 8 years and although my kitty never became well regulated, he happily lived to be 20 years old.
In the 16 years since J.D. was diagnosed, I never found a vet I felt knew as much as the people here do about diabetes. I recommend FDMB to everyone with a diabetic kitty.
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