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cimoreneHealthy cat blood glucose would be around 5-10, diabetic cat blood glucose aims for 10-15, and diabetic cat blood glucose should be kept under 17, the vet has told us.
When Snookums got his diagnosis two weeks ago he tested at 23, and this Friday (after 4½ days of insulin doses but only mild dietary changes) it was down to 20.5.
However, I read elsewhere that it's possible for a diabetic cat going on insulin for the first time to go weeks before any real behavioral indications that they're feeling better appear. I would say he's been slightly more energetic as measured in # of times he feels playful and # of times he wakes me up at night, but no big shifts.
We have been instructed in how to do home blood glucose tests so the next steps are to
I've already been testing a variety of new wet foods alongside their kibble... while using up the wet food we already had and recording which ones they eat. They are weirdly amenable to the basic Sheba pate foods (provided they are warmed to room temperature first and then thoroughly mashed up in the bottom of the bowl with a bit of liquid to thin them; if you just turn the tin upside-down and present a sort of gelatinous lump of pureed food the BB doesn't recognize it as food at all), which are your basic grocery store cat food made with animal byproducts, and oddly have rejected two flavors of expensive stuff like "pheasant and duck" and "chicken liver with game" from the pet store made with much higher grades of meat.
I'm hoping the BB's increased openness to pate-like foods might mean I will be able to feed them wholly or partially frozen raw food eventually, which has even less carbs (typically none) and is hence better for them and is fairly widely available in Finland.
When Snookums got his diagnosis two weeks ago he tested at 23, and this Friday (after 4½ days of insulin doses but only mild dietary changes) it was down to 20.5.
However, I read elsewhere that it's possible for a diabetic cat going on insulin for the first time to go weeks before any real behavioral indications that they're feeling better appear. I would say he's been slightly more energetic as measured in # of times he feels playful and # of times he wakes me up at night, but no big shifts.
We have been instructed in how to do home blood glucose tests so the next steps are to
- buy the tester and testing strips,
- start testing a few times to get a basic idea, and then
- remove as much starch from his diet as possible (removing dry food and wet food containing 10% or higher energy from carbohydrates entirely from the cats' diets).
I've already been testing a variety of new wet foods alongside their kibble... while using up the wet food we already had and recording which ones they eat. They are weirdly amenable to the basic Sheba pate foods (provided they are warmed to room temperature first and then thoroughly mashed up in the bottom of the bowl with a bit of liquid to thin them; if you just turn the tin upside-down and present a sort of gelatinous lump of pureed food the BB doesn't recognize it as food at all), which are your basic grocery store cat food made with animal byproducts, and oddly have rejected two flavors of expensive stuff like "pheasant and duck" and "chicken liver with game" from the pet store made with much higher grades of meat.
I'm hoping the BB's increased openness to pate-like foods might mean I will be able to feed them wholly or partially frozen raw food eventually, which has even less carbs (typically none) and is hence better for them and is fairly widely available in Finland.
