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nosrednaydujSo my cat has been diagnosed with diabetes. She's 18, so it's not surprising.
Unfortunately, unlike my last cat who had diabetes, this one will not be as easy to treat. The last one purred while you gave her the injections.
Turns out, there is "metformin for cats", which is actually something that works on a different mechanism, called Senvelgo. So, she can just have it mixed into her food like all of her other drugs. So, we're going to give this a try, even though it's going to be fairly expensive. The vet was going on about how insulin care is just as expensive, but if your cat is sufficiently cooperative, you can do your blood glucose curves at home, with the same exact glucose monitor that people use. So when I had Mottle, it really wasn't very expensive at all to manage her diabetes, and since she purred while you were doing whatever you were doing, it was even a bit pleasurable.
At some point it will stop working, and she will start making ketones, and then I'm afraid we're going to be all done. If it was a different cat, we would switch to insulin at that point. But perhaps if it was a different cat we would start with insulin. We might get a year or two. I will monitor quality of life, which is currently decent, despite the arthritis.
Unfortunately, unlike my last cat who had diabetes, this one will not be as easy to treat. The last one purred while you gave her the injections.
Turns out, there is "metformin for cats", which is actually something that works on a different mechanism, called Senvelgo. So, she can just have it mixed into her food like all of her other drugs. So, we're going to give this a try, even though it's going to be fairly expensive. The vet was going on about how insulin care is just as expensive, but if your cat is sufficiently cooperative, you can do your blood glucose curves at home, with the same exact glucose monitor that people use. So when I had Mottle, it really wasn't very expensive at all to manage her diabetes, and since she purred while you were doing whatever you were doing, it was even a bit pleasurable.
At some point it will stop working, and she will start making ketones, and then I'm afraid we're going to be all done. If it was a different cat, we would switch to insulin at that point. But perhaps if it was a different cat we would start with insulin. We might get a year or two. I will monitor quality of life, which is currently decent, despite the arthritis.
