Beth & Atlas
Member Since 2010
Yesterday's Condo
Ugh!!!! Right back up to that darn pink floor again today!
Attie actually had the friskies this morning for a whole 3 minutes. He was quite excited to find a new mouse in his bed. :lol:
Thank you to all who responded in yesterday's condo.
Jill, I'll be following your link to see if it is something to consider for Attie. I hope you find time to review the article I shared. I need to really print it out and thoroughly read it myself as one of the conclusions from the noted chronic disease processes of the pancreas is indeed feline diabetes.
Julie, thank you for sharing your own personal story and research regarding the connections between diabetes and viruses in humans too. I tend to agree that we should be able to make some sort of extrapolation for some of our cats.
It also indicates that while diet is beneficial in helping control diabetes, it may not be the only causative agent and may explain why some cats don't go into remission. Atlas's constantly fluxuating numbers may not have anything to do with his healing pancreas...they may be indicative of underlying herpes outbreaks in the pancreas and why we'll go from 0.5u up to 3.0u every few months.
Of course all this discussion is really anecdotal or theorhetical until more research is done and that will likely be decades away if it is ever even done.
Ugh!!!! Right back up to that darn pink floor again today!
Attie actually had the friskies this morning for a whole 3 minutes. He was quite excited to find a new mouse in his bed. :lol:
Thank you to all who responded in yesterday's condo.
Jill, I'll be following your link to see if it is something to consider for Attie. I hope you find time to review the article I shared. I need to really print it out and thoroughly read it myself as one of the conclusions from the noted chronic disease processes of the pancreas is indeed feline diabetes.
Julie, thank you for sharing your own personal story and research regarding the connections between diabetes and viruses in humans too. I tend to agree that we should be able to make some sort of extrapolation for some of our cats.
It also indicates that while diet is beneficial in helping control diabetes, it may not be the only causative agent and may explain why some cats don't go into remission. Atlas's constantly fluxuating numbers may not have anything to do with his healing pancreas...they may be indicative of underlying herpes outbreaks in the pancreas and why we'll go from 0.5u up to 3.0u every few months.
Of course all this discussion is really anecdotal or theorhetical until more research is done and that will likely be decades away if it is ever even done.
