Im our second house, we picked the carpet that was supposed to be barf-proof. Our calico nicknamed the Barfing Queen, would run to the top of the stairs, look down, and send her “gifts” cascading down the steps. The carpet was indeed barf-resistant, but I developed serious biceps from scribbling that stuff off the stairs! 
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You know what’s worse than the barfy cat? It’s the cat you hear hacking up in the pre-dawn hours, and you tell yourself, I’ll have to clean that up. Then you can’t find it. Was it a false alarm? Am I about to step in it at any moment? Has it already dried into my rug?
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OMG, I thought we were the only ones dealing with the ongoing carpet clean-up as the first task of the day! Our 15 year old cat intermittently throws up and then stops eating for several days - then back to normal. The new plan is confinement in the mud room overnight (avoids walking bare foot and bleary eyed at 5am in unpleasant surprises) and best discovery is the Costco front door mat (another favorite barf spot) can be hosed down and looks like new.
Well here is how his numbers look after no insulin for almost 48 hours. Sent it off to the vet to get her thoughts. If this is accurate it’s not bad and I’d much rather this then the dangerous low we were getting two days ago
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We have 4 cats, so someone is always barfing up something. So who else comes home from a weekend trip and the first thing you do is go around the house trying to find all of the throw up spots? For me though, the worst is when we go to eat dinner and pull out the chair and someone has barfed something gross on our nice WHITE - or not in anyway nice and white anymore - cushioned chairs. Because that’s exactly what one wants to do RIGHT before eating dinner… And it’s not like you can just ignore it and use a different one… once you know it’s there…
It’s a good thing they are cute!
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Oh goodness that looks almost perfect! Wonder if your cat is one of those that can be easily frightened to the point his BG shoots through the moon? Can happen during their vet visits so bloodwork shows hyperglycemia.
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On the very slim chance your cat’s throwing up and then not eating is pancreatitis, I pass along that pancreatitis in cats is caused usually by a food allergen, usually chicken. I learned this from the veterinary nutritionist consult I had for my cat with Kidney disease and pancreatitis.
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Thank you for the suggestion. If the current regimen doesn’t help we’ll investigate further. She’s currently on meds for her thyroid and according to the vet she also has gradually deteriorating kidney function (due to aging) which he says can lead to a build up of toxins which make her nauseous. He’s recommending Pepcid which we’ve just started so we’ll see if it helps.
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Speaking of the devil!! I’m washing the floors, and my cat barfed on the freshly washed portion. 
Thank goodness I am still in the process and have the Tineco washer out! As if she overheard our conversation and decided, “Hmmm… I have not done any puking in a while… time to go! Braaaappp!” If they weren’t so cute, indeed!
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Wow! Looks great. Did you change his diet? Some cats respond well to diet changes without the need for insulin! How is he doing otherwise? Any signs of muscle weakness or excessive thirst?
We had switched his food two weeks ago when he started. Otherwise he seems fine!
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I would let him be, ditch the expensive CGM when the current sensor falls off, and check his BG with a capillary blood meter in a few weeks. I wouldn’t rely on readings at the vet… cats are notorious for BG spikes when they’re stressed. That’s why vets recommend doing BG curves at home in the cat’s familiar surroundings.
It is so odd. He was having issues as he lost so much weight hence why we brought him to the vet. I do wonder if this is due to the steroid shot he got. It started happening right after that. And now it’s just better? I don’t get it
Did he also start walking funny (on the hocks of his hind legs), drink excessively, pee non stop? Those are tell-tale signs of feline diabetes. Coupled with high BG readings, that’s the indicator that the cat needs insulin. That’s what our vet said (confirmed by my relatives who run their vet practices). A high BG reading at the vet can be just a fluke due to stress cause by riding in the car etc.
Weight loss can be due to many things. How is his thyroid? One of my cats lost a ton of weight… she had hyperactive thyroid! Got treated with radioactive iodine which is curative in 95% plus cases and is now back to her own chubby self!
The cat that we had to euthanize recently developed lung cancer. Poor little thing started losing weight and then suddenly stopped eating completely and started breathing laboriously. Funny thing her bloodwork all came back OK but X-ray clearly showed large masses… palliative care was pretty much only option at that point.
Why am I saying this? I hope your vet ruled out any other causes of weight loss? Dealing with sick pets is so heartbreaking. Hugs.
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Yes he was peeing a lot and peeing outside the box here and there. He was drinking a ton of water as well.
It’s been so hot here for so long, if Dembe isn’t doing her dead possum routine, she’s trying to cool off on the stove. I’m right there with her!
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Welp…update. Kitty has been off of Insulin for 6 days now. His levels have been consistently in the “normal” range. So by crazy way he somehow isn’t diabetic. Vet says it could be that changing his diet was help enough but what I firmly think is that it was in fact caused by the steroid.
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