Thanx for the heads up. Kitty, 10 y/o, just diagnosed with Diabetes, don’t need something else to worry about.
“Thanx for the heads up. Kitty, 10 y/o, just diagnosed with Diabetes, don’t need something else to worry about.”
We had a kitten who at 10 months contracted Diabetes. We kept him going for 14 more years. Lot’s of good info on the ‘net.
I hope your Vet is good - the Vet that diagnosed our Oslo started screaming at me (literally!) when I asked the simple question: can we do these blood tests at home?
She screamed NO and who do you think you are?
Got a new vet, went to Walmart purchased a Reli-on meter and test strips (smallest blood sample size is best) and ‘poker’ the Reli-on brand is excellent and very reasonably priced. You can poke the foot pad of the front leg of your can to collect a sample.
Insulin is expensive but with a cat it will last for months when kept refrigerated. In my state syringes are an over the counter item that we used 1 each day for the AM and PM injection (1 syringe used twice). You’ll get the hang of it. I gave our cat more than 10,000 injections, it’s funny but he knew we were helping him and never resisted (at least not too much)
Once your cat ‘settles in’ you will not have to test too often.
FOOD is a major item - we found for dry food the Wellness brand ‘CORE’ was the best and we still serve it to our cats daily. Core also has small pouches of wet food ‘Tiny Tasters’ that are excellent. Once your cat is dialed in DON’T CHANGE THE FOOD!
One last item: Cats are the only know mammal that can actually cure themselves of Diabetes - our cat cured himself for two years...then became Diabetic again.
Best of luck!