"Rhonda" wrote in message
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Take a look at this site:

http://www.felinediabetes.com/bg-home-test.htm

That's the site I was looking at, but I didn't get to the message board.
I'll check it out again and pass on the link.

I hope she finds a different vet. Cats can be hard to regulate and
sometimes the numbers look as though the cat needs more insulin when it
actually needs less. This is a strange ricochet effect you have to be
aware of.

Right now she gets 2 units of NPH twice a day. She had been getting 3
units, but he said sometimes her back legs would tremble and it looked like
she would fall over, so her dose was cut back to 1 1/2 units, but that was
too little. Even on 2 units her urine tests are still very high. I know
urine tests aren't very accurate and the results you get don't always
reflect the real numbers at the time, because it takes awhile for the
glucose to pass into the urine and show up on the stick test.

By the way, have the vet refer them to an internist vet. That's what our
vet did and the internist was wonderful. She regulated his insulin and
helped us all of the way through his trials and tribulations. She didn't
suggest blood testing daily because too many people try to tweak the
insulin themselves and end up messing up the regulation. Cats do not
follow advice very well (eating at the right times and exercising...) so
cannot have as constant numbers as humans.

Good luck to the kitty!

Rhonda

I know that he sometimes has second thoughts about the vet, and he said
something about him again last night. This guy seems to think that you
shouldn't bother doing any tests, procedures, medications etc. unless the
cat is half dead.

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Liz