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Nine years ago yesterday, this forum and the associated website went live.
I imagine some people - vets in particular perhaps - doubt when I say I've watched literally hundreds, more than a thousand dogs, go through diabetes since I joined an older forum for canine diabetics in 2004.
But we have more than 4,000 members here alone. And I have corresponded with a relatively small subset of several hundred of those people by email over the years.
This forum (with background from the prior one) is like a comprehensive longitudinal study of canine diabetes - providing information on, among other things:
- how important specific diets are (not)
- how long dogs tend to live with diabetes after diagnosis (depends on how old they are when diagnosed as it generally doesn't affect their lifespan)
- whether insulins generally are effective in dogs (N definitely is highly effective for dogs in general)
- how good the blood sugar control needs to be (many dogs who never see blood sugar below 200 or 250 do just fine as long as it doesn't go above about 350 regularly)
- the irreplaceable value of home blood sugar testing
It is a joy to share my life with all these wonderful dogs and their kind and devoted caretakers.
Natalie
I imagine some people - vets in particular perhaps - doubt when I say I've watched literally hundreds, more than a thousand dogs, go through diabetes since I joined an older forum for canine diabetics in 2004.
But we have more than 4,000 members here alone. And I have corresponded with a relatively small subset of several hundred of those people by email over the years.
This forum (with background from the prior one) is like a comprehensive longitudinal study of canine diabetes - providing information on, among other things:
- how important specific diets are (not)
- how long dogs tend to live with diabetes after diagnosis (depends on how old they are when diagnosed as it generally doesn't affect their lifespan)
- whether insulins generally are effective in dogs (N definitely is highly effective for dogs in general)
- how good the blood sugar control needs to be (many dogs who never see blood sugar below 200 or 250 do just fine as long as it doesn't go above about 350 regularly)
- the irreplaceable value of home blood sugar testing
It is a joy to share my life with all these wonderful dogs and their kind and devoted caretakers.
Natalie
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