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moonrambler · 10-08-2008, 03:27 PM

I'm wondering if anyone here has any knowledge or suggestions about how to bring a cat out of diabetes. Last year in August my 15-year-old cat was diagnosed with diabetes. I read a ton of information about it and was determined to not have to put her on insulin. I changed her diet to all canned food, the main recommendation, along with some small amounts of cheese, fish, and egg. There are specific recommendations for what types of canned food are allowed, because there is not supposed to be any wheat gluten, rice, or other filler.

By October, I made the decision to start her on insulin because although there was significant improvement in her behavior, there was no improvement in her blood sugar readings. The vet put her on 1 unit of insulin twice a day.

Her blood sugar still runs higher than normal. There was improvement for awhile, but it dissipated. I've got her up to 3 units of insulin twice a day now before seeing some improvement. This has made her electrolytes a bit off. I had to put her on a potassium supplement, and she's getting cottage cheese for a calcium supplement.

This week the clinic ran out of the potassium supplement and I was all out. The vet told me to feed her some banana. I said I had assumed banana was bad for her because it's all starch (sugar).

Now with feeding her banana for potassium and cottage cheese for calcium, more natural solutions than supplements, I'm back to wondering what, if anything, I can possibly do to get her off the insulin and get her blood sugar regulated. I just don't know where to go from here since putting her on the high-protein diet didn't make any difference in the stats.

10-08-2008, 03:27 PM	#1 (permalink)
moonrambler Family Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: N.E. Wisconsin Posts: 3,473	feline diabetes I'm wondering if anyone here has any knowledge or suggestions about how to bring a cat out of diabetes. Last year in August my 15-year-old cat was diagnosed with diabetes. I read a ton of information about it and was determined to not have to put her on insulin. I changed her diet to all canned food, the main recommendation, along with some small amounts of cheese, fish, and egg. There are specific recommendations for what types of canned food are allowed, because there is not supposed to be any wheat gluten, rice, or other filler. By October, I made the decision to start her on insulin because although there was significant improvement in her behavior, there was no improvement in her blood sugar readings. The vet put her on 1 unit of insulin twice a day. Her blood sugar still runs higher than normal. There was improvement for awhile, but it dissipated. I've got her up to 3 units of insulin twice a day now before seeing some improvement. This has made her electrolytes a bit off. I had to put her on a potassium supplement, and she's getting cottage cheese for a calcium supplement. This week the clinic ran out of the potassium supplement and I was all out. The vet told me to feed her some banana. I said I had assumed banana was bad for her because it's all starch (sugar). Now with feeding her banana for potassium and cottage cheese for calcium, more natural solutions than supplements, I'm back to wondering what, if anything, I can possibly do to get her off the insulin and get her blood sugar regulated. I just don't know where to go from here since putting her on the high-protein diet didn't make any difference in the stats.