Nisha & George
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Hi, I'm Nisha and I have 2 Fur Babies: Bill: 12, orange tuxedo tabby and George: 5, Brown tuxedo tabby. George is the baby with the new diabetes diagnosis, as of Dec 13th 2024. I have him on 2 units of Prozinc as of Feb 10th 2025. I feed him Go! Solutions Chicken, Turkey + Duck. Hes about 6.36 kg or 13ish lbs. He's lost a bit of weight since his diagnosis and diet change. He was originally on 240kcal per day but I have decided (as of Feb 11th) to up it to 260kcal per day to see if he stops losing weight. Any skinnier and I'd be worried about his health. So! I was told to start him on 0.5 unit ProZinc back in Dec. so that's what I did. Jan rolls around and he gets his first blood glucose curve test done. His numbers were still high, in the 18-22 range. Told me to increase dosage to 1 unit of ProZinc. So I did. Feb rolls around... Back in for his glucose curve and they say his numbers are still too high. This time they were between 18-27. Vet tells me to increase the insulin. I ask to confirm "So he'll be on 1.5 units?" I get the rudest, most gas-lighting response I've ever had from a vet. "we started him on 1 unit in Dec, in Jan we told you to go up to 2 unit." NO, THEY DID NOT. That same appointment I ask for George to be weighed as I was concerned about his weight loss. They didn't weigh him. I also asked to be shown how to use a glucose monitor at home, was told the human monitor was not good enough that it gives inaccurate information, I need a pet one. Told them I can't afford a $200+ machine plus test strips. I ask AGAIN to be shown how to use it, what I'm looking for... the show me how to shine a light on his ear and leaves it at that. I'm currently Vet shopping. I'm located in London, Ontario, Canada if anyone has any recommendations. My biggest concern right now is this: my current vet says I need a wet food that is less than 7 GRAMS of carbs per can, but everything I'm reading online, especially here, says 10 PERCENT or less. All the food calculations I've found online are in % and so are all the calculators. How do I even calculate how many grams of carbs there are???? I went with Go! because I like the ingredients and it shows up around the 6.5ish % per one carton. Although I'm food shopping again because I'd like something made in Canada preferably. If not Canada, the at least not the USA. Go! is a Canadian company but their wet foods are made in the USA. I looked at Boreal (made in B.C.) but their carb count looks too high based on both % and g.
Anyways TL;DR Need help with learning to do glucose readings at home, Carb calculation (% or grams?), and Finding a MADE IN CANADA wet food, if possible.
Thanks in advance from Nisha & Georgie <3
Anyways TL;DR Need help with learning to do glucose readings at home, Carb calculation (% or grams?), and Finding a MADE IN CANADA wet food, if possible.
Thanks in advance from Nisha & Georgie <3