I'm offering food whenever she wants at this point but biggest meals are AMPS and PMPS. She eats the most between AMPS and +4 typically, with snacks usually around +6 or +8. In the evening I have to remove all food by +4 because I have other cats and she has to eat food with a binder in it (which the other cats can't have). I will make sure she eats at AM+9 today to see what that does. I don't think I can get up at 3am to feed them all (I have 6 cats total) though.
We are doing an official OTJ trial at this point due to how low she's getting during the day with no insulin. She is on day 11.
I have six cats too, George is my FD kitty, also CKD, my solution is that at night he sleeps in the kitchen on his own with his auto feeder to get snacks at regular intervals while we sleep, (or if I am out and not around for his snack time) once OTJ his feeding schedule is am +3 +6 +9 pm +3 +6 +9. He gets main Meal at am and pm, with just snacks of 2 TSP at the other times.
Small regular snacks throughout the day are easier on the pancreas and keeps his BG level. You may want to try and adopt that strategy with Starburst. It will of course depend on how good an eater he is and if you are able to separate him while you sleep.
Another alternative if you don't want to separate him out is a micro chip feeder, or placing his food in a room which only he can access via a microchip cat flap,we have had members in the past who have made feeding enclosures to look like furniture so only their FD kitty will have access to the food.
FWIW I have noted that if George fails to eat his snack, (if autofeeder failed to open). Then his ambg is higher, often blue, whereas it is usually green if he has had his snack.
As Starburst is essentially not on insulin, right now, you don't need to worry about the effect of the prozinc cycle as he's not getting it his BG is not being influenced by it.
You can see on the SS that Starburst usually brings his BG down a couple of hours after his am/pm meal. That tells us that the meal stimulates his pancreas into producing some insulin.
If you can get rid of the blues with a change to that feeding schedule, it will increase the likelihood of a strong remission. He's getting a few too many blues for my liking, if he were mine is be trying to manipulate his BG with the food to get rid of them.
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@Bron and Sheba (GA)
Sorry to hijack the thread, i'm lost here, i thought that if you feed your cat it would increase the BG not bring it down or is this just a case of if a cat is in remission or on a OTJ trial.
Yes it would if the pancreas isn't working.
But for a cat in remission or approaching it, (so a cat on a micro dose) a small snack will often stimulate the pancreas into producing some endogenous insulin which in turn will bring the BG down.
