Feline diabetes

Hello!!!

I have a cat whose name is Tom. He has been recently diagnosed with diabetes. It is really sad news for me and my family, cause we treat him like a family member and love him so much.

I researched many websites so far to look for cure and etc, but so far liked only one website, which is www.catdiabetes.net. Just wanted to share it with everyone whose cats are sick with diabetes as well.
As well as just want to ask if anyone can advice anything else about this horrible sickness that making my cat to suffer. (

Thank you so much.

If you didn't see this one, it is my reference point for diabetes
http://www.felinediabetes.com/index.html

It's my understanding that, in many cases, with proper diet and activity changes, many cats will fully recover......so, maybe you don't need to sound so sad after all.

If I were you, I would check out the Yahoo groups......there are a number of feline support groups there for other chronic problems. That can be of enormous benefit, especially when the diagnosis is first received.

Good luck!

My son's cat was diagnosed as pre-diabetic today.
She hasn't been gaining much weight since he rescued her from a parking lot last year. She was 6 lbs when he found her, the vet thought 10-12 was a better weight for her. She now weighs 8 lbs after 15 months, though she was up to 10 lbs at one point.
Her inital lab was normal. A couple of months later, her BS was 119. The next one a few months later was 130. Saturday's came back 190. I asked him if it mattered that she had eaten two hours before the blood work (it matters in humans) and he said no. His concern is the pattern of increasing blood sugars.
Kidney, liver and thyroid numbers are all WNL (since we don't know her history, we want to be aggressive about keeping an eye on her).

The end of April, my son and his girl friend broke up, so that is a huge change in her life. I n May, my son took in a Blue Heeler pup found on a road by the cemetery. Attempts were made to locate the pup's mother and owner, with no luck. So, stressor number two. I am off this summer, so I do go over and pick up the pup every work day to work on pottytraining, obedience and socialization. She is the friendlist dog.

So she is to switch to Science Diet DM (I know, bleh). No glucose monitoring at this point.

My plan is to take her back in to months (his schedule). As long as she doesn't get worse before that, I am okay with trying this. I think I would like to get her switched to Innova Evo, based on results of my preliminary
reading.

I am asking if this sounds reasonable? TIA.

Yes EVO is a GREAT food for diabetic or pre diabetic cats....