6/12Willy AMPS~235|+3~229

Yesterday

Starting the day a bit higher than normal! Maybe Willy got into something last night. We have a lot of stuff all over the place because we're cleaning the carpets so in all the disorganization it is likely something may have gotten left out.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend!!

Re: 6/12 Willy AMPS~235

Stephanie:

I think somehow I've been missing your condo...I was looking for it!!! Glad to see Willy is in low yellow and hope he gets to blue/green today!! Also hope you are staying cooler in Flag than we are here!

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i thought you didn't post yesterday - but i just read it. sometimes they slide down off the radar - and i was gone most of yesterday so guess i just missed it.

don't be dismayed about the acro test - i'm realizing that many of the cats here have issues that affect their BG, even other than acro or iaa - the hyperthyroid that people mention is related, so is pancreatitis. you just deal with it. and knowing what it is lets you target your help. it doesn't necessarily mean that it shortens their lives, either - i think i read in one of the studies that the mean survival rate after diagnosis was 550ish days - so nearly 2 years. and some of the kitties were way up there age-wise when diagnosed. the longest one in that particular study survived i think 8 years. somehow i'd gotten the idea that it was a death sentence, but it's not.

patti opened a condo with info on acro and i just added the links that i sent to my vet. you might email them to your vet so she can read up on it to understand what you're talking about before you go in.

just so you know, the test is only run on wednesdays.

that's not a bad amps, especially if willy has been into the garbage again (willy? did you?). hope you're enjoying your day!

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Marje: I have been super busy so I haven't been posting at regular intervals or at my regular time! It's not you!!!! Last week was crazy hectic in a good way (got the job, working on my driving fear, getting DHs car fixed, helping DH with homework for his English class) and I have been cleaning the carpets this weekend! My house smells faintly like vinegar but it looks soooo awesome! We have been hiding indoors a lot because of all the pollen from it being super super windy and there was a fire nearish us so we haven't noticed the heat too much lately! :lol: :lol: I hope you guys are staying cool! I have been keeping you and your DH and furfamily in my thoughts even though I haven't been posting to your condo!

Julie: I am not too dismayed, just distressed (mostly because I don't know if I'm being reasonable or crazy!)! Sometimes I think I'm totally wrong/off base, then something happens or I read something and I'm like shhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiii....I figured out how to describe his breathing--- it sounds like a person on oxygen. They have those audible spurts when they breathe in from the tank-- it's like that and sounds similar. I don't know if that makes sense. It's definitely from his nose. Could maybe be polyps or something but he also has elevated cholesterol, is flooding the box STILL, is STILL acting starving, has neuropathy (managed with b-12), dry skin/dander (not losing coat though), etc. Acro shares a lot of signs with other things and most of them are just observations so it's hard to know if you're justified or crazy!!!

I expect to talk to my vet this week and make an appointment for next week (DH gets paid Friday and the dog needs to get a heartworm test too). I suspect she will not know too much about it and will have no experience with it so I am hoping to print out the testing information that I saw posted here (somewhere) and some of the medical information (about cushings and iaa too, might as well knock them all out) so she can read through them and call me back with what she thinks we should do and when.

The house is in total disarray so I wouldn't be shocked if Willy found something delicious. :lol: :lol:

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Hi Stephanie!! I thanked you in Champ's condo, but I'll do it here to!!! I really appreciate you going to all the trouble of finding those links for me. Especially with you being so busy!! Very, very sweet of you!! I hope you have a great day!!

i know the breathing - it's called "Respiratory Stridor" in acrocats - not sure if that's what you're hearing in Willy, of course, but punkin has a sound like you're describing when he breathes sometimes. not all the time, just sometimes.

the insulin resistance test is $15, the acro one is about $140, i think. i haven't actually paid for punkin's yet because the vet wanted to wait to figure out how much everything was with the fed ex charges and all. i did both tests because the acro was the one i suspected and the insulin resistance didn't cost much more. apparently there is usually a progressing degree of insulin resistance as the time having acro increases. in other words, punkin tested at 7% insulin resistant now, which is in normal range, but that number would be likely to increase as time goes on.

the cushing's disease has symptoms that you might be able to tell without testing - i think the most significant one is that the skin is fragile and tears easily.

do you think he's flooding the box because of the amount of water you're adding to his food? i think that would be more significant if you were giving him unwatered food and he was choosing the water in addition to the food. punkin's still peeing a lot, but i know it's directly related to me watering his food.

cats are very skilled at finding little nibblies that you didn't know were there! a potato chip under a chair, the crumbs in the kitchen under the cabinets . . . they've got eyes for it all! :lol:

Willy does the breathing thing more often than not but it's not ALL of the time so I guess that's good, right? :lol: I thought about the additional water in the food causing the flooding (and ofc there is no way to ever know FOR SURE) but I don't know if that's necessarily the case just based on what I am adding and what is coming out of him (since I've been watering his food, he hasn't been drinking additional water). I may very well be overreacting. I wouldn't be surprised at all if that was the case! ohmygod_smile ohmygod_smile :lol:

Do you happen to know if this is the test for acro? I saw it posted as a reference in the Acro support section and I was thinking about printing it out for my vet. I know there will be vet mark up, cost to do the blood draw and any preparations, and the cost of shipping but I want to make sure it's the right test so that she has a good place to start! Sorry to ask so many questions, I am not really good with this stuff to begin with and that is only compounded by my general inexperience. :? :?

He's a little crumb monger. It's ALMOST like I have a Roomba!!! :lol: :lol:

you're doing fine! how will you learn if you don't ask?

yes, that's the test. gee, off a little on the price, wasn't i? maybe i was thinking the total was going to be $140 - idk.

my vet's cost for blood draw is $15. not sure on fed ex.

just dropping in to say hello!