Hello,
My dog Sidney is a 12 year old (13 in August) 58 pound Australian Cattle Dog. I took him to the vet two weeks ago because he was not walking anymore. I thought it was bad arthritis. Turns out he had terrible diabetes and had keytosis. They sent him home with me to start on 10 units of Humulin N. He was worse the next day and I brought him back, they hospitalized him over night, giving him insulin every hour. Bringing his BGS down from 490 to 130, giving him IV. I took him home and again he returned to hardly moving. This was April 9th that we started giving him 10 units of Humulin N, I have now changed to Novolin and finally got my Alphatrak 2 in the mail on Thursday. I have been keeping track of his blood sugar. He's been back to the hospital multiple times for dehydration. He is eating and drinking, but last night his blood sugar was 701 after giving him 11 units in the AM and 14 units in the PM.
This brought his BGS down to 418 and that held steady through the morning. It is now back to 525 (3 pm) after giving him 15 units of Novolin at 7:30 AM.
He is on the diabetic food and is being given the same portion each feeding schedule (2 x's a day).
Yesterday I brought in a urine sample to be mailed out for the CReatin test to see if he might have Cushings.
My question is, Do you think based on his numbers that I could increase his insulin tonight from 15 to 16? or Even higher?
I have Karo syrup and a syringe incase his BGS drops too low. I am home all weekend and can check his BGS every hour.
Last night when he was down to 418 he was walking around again and was markedly different, back to his old wonderful self.
Any suggestions are GREATLY appreciated!!!
Thank you!!!
My dog Sidney is a 12 year old (13 in August) 58 pound Australian Cattle Dog. I took him to the vet two weeks ago because he was not walking anymore. I thought it was bad arthritis. Turns out he had terrible diabetes and had keytosis. They sent him home with me to start on 10 units of Humulin N. He was worse the next day and I brought him back, they hospitalized him over night, giving him insulin every hour. Bringing his BGS down from 490 to 130, giving him IV. I took him home and again he returned to hardly moving. This was April 9th that we started giving him 10 units of Humulin N, I have now changed to Novolin and finally got my Alphatrak 2 in the mail on Thursday. I have been keeping track of his blood sugar. He's been back to the hospital multiple times for dehydration. He is eating and drinking, but last night his blood sugar was 701 after giving him 11 units in the AM and 14 units in the PM.
This brought his BGS down to 418 and that held steady through the morning. It is now back to 525 (3 pm) after giving him 15 units of Novolin at 7:30 AM.
He is on the diabetic food and is being given the same portion each feeding schedule (2 x's a day).
Yesterday I brought in a urine sample to be mailed out for the CReatin test to see if he might have Cushings.
My question is, Do you think based on his numbers that I could increase his insulin tonight from 15 to 16? or Even higher?
I have Karo syrup and a syringe incase his BGS drops too low. I am home all weekend and can check his BGS every hour.
Last night when he was down to 418 he was walking around again and was markedly different, back to his old wonderful self.
Any suggestions are GREATLY appreciated!!!
Thank you!!!
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