Chronic conditions in cats, tracked properly

For cats on insulin injections or a once-daily oral medicine. You copy the dose your vet wrote; the app never calculates, suggests or adjusts a dose. Each dose is logged with a “did the cat eat?” check first, and your vet’s standing instruction for a cat that will not eat is kept with the plan.

Options for given, gave reduced and skipped, so the record matches what really happened, and injection sites that rotate through the sides, flanks and hips.

Readings in your meter’s units, mg/dL or mmol/L, set once. Every reading comes back with a plain verdict against the feline target, 80–300 mg/dL through the day. One high reading is common, because stress raises glucose in cats; a run of readings over 300 is a call to the vet.

Use a pet meter set to the cat code: human meters read low in cats.

Plot a day of readings into a curve and the app marks the nadir, the lowest point and when it fell (ideally 80–150 mg/dL), with the peak and the average. That is the number a vet needs to judge the dose, and the hardest thing to produce from scribbled notes.

Cats can go into remission. A reading under 80 is flagged for the vet today, because in a cat it can mean the dose is now too high or that remission is starting. The vet decides; you never lower a dose yourself.

Insulin weakens once opened. You enter the date you opened the vial or pen and the number of days its label allows; the app counts down, so you are not quietly injecting weak insulin and wondering why the numbers drifted.

The vet’s plan, in one place

The IRIS stage exactly as your vet told you, the renal diet, the phosphate binder and the sub-Q fluids as prescribed, with a reminder on the prescribed interval and a given or skipped log. The app never stages the disease itself: staging needs a fasted, well-hydrated cat and repeat tests, and that is the vet’s call.

Every lab panel, against the IRIS bands

Enter creatinine, SDMA, phosphorus, systolic blood pressure and urine specific gravity from the lab sheet. Each value is shown in its IRIS band (creatinine under 1.6 mg/dL is band 1, 1.6–2.8 band 2, 2.9–5.0 band 3, over 5.0 band 4), and anything above the stage or phosphorus target your vet set is flagged to raise with them. Context, never a diagnosis.

The home signs that matter

Not eating: call the vet now, because a kidney cat that stops eating can go downhill fast. Losing 5 % or more of body weight within two months: call the vet, as weight loss is the earliest sign of progression. Vomiting, or drinking over 60 mL/kg a day: worth watching and telling the vet.

The treatment your vet chose

Methimazole or carbimazole, radioiodine (I-131), an iodine-restricted prescription diet, thyroid surgery, or not decided yet. You enter the T4 reference range from your lab, because labs differ. Methimazole doses are logged under Medications, exactly as prescribed.

Each T4, against the goal

Every result is placed against the range: above it, in the upper half, in the lower half (the AAFP goal for a treated cat), or below it, which can mean over-treatment and can harm the kidneys. Creatinine is logged beside it, because treating the thyroid can unmask kidney disease. Rechecks every 3–6 months.

Home signs and an early side-effect watch

For 90 days after methimazole starts, vomiting, facial itching or lethargy is flagged as a possible side effect, with a prompt to call the vet that day. The app also watches for weight loss of 5 % or more within two months, a resting heart rate over 220 beats a minute, and a cat that stops eating.