Annie, my 13 yr old 14 lb Maltese w/ right side heart disease and diabetes...the Vet believes she has Cushing's but we didn't run the tests to confirm. She has all the symptoms he said, including the insulin resistance.
We started with Novalin N 2x/day in January but it had no effect after 2 weeks and increasing the dosage after one week.
We moved onto Vetsulin 2x/day starting at 2 units and increased it every week until 9 units (and that's where we are for the past 2 weeks). Her numbers barely changed. She is no longer in DKA since switching to Vetsulin. (I check her urine often with Bayer Reagent strips.)
She eats a cup of Hills W/D kibble mixed with W/D wet along with a scrambled egg at 6:am & Hills W/D kibble mixed with W/D wet along with Real Meat dehydrated Chicken sprinkled on top at 6:00 pm and is on 9 units of insulin 2x/day, right after she eats. She has an excellent appetite but isn't starving like she was when her numbers were in the 600s.
Her water consumption and "output" is still way more than it should be but has noticeably improved since Vetsulin. (We use Prevail male guards Maximum Absorbency and they're saturated after 8 hours.)
I want to mention also her alertness and activity has noticeably increased and her breathing has dramatically improved, she no longer pants since being on Vetsulin.
Her Saturday noon BG checks at the vet's office have been in the 500s for weeks.
He was unavailable for the past two weeks so I've been closely monitoring her, and did a curve today.
(I'm using AlphaTrak w/ AT strips... meter tested with Control Solution with every new package of strips)
Here are her #s:
2/22 5:30 am 464
2/26 5:30 am 405
2/27 4:00 pm 525
2/29 6:00 am 451
3/5 4:00 pm 411
3/8 11:00 am 670
4:00 pm 577
3/9 4:00 pm 492
3/10 5:30 am 556
9:00 am 526
12:30 pm 636
3:30 pm 575
5:30 655
-I used another strip and got "HI" so I put in yet another strip and got
632
What are your thoughts? Should her insulin be increased?
We started with Novalin N 2x/day in January but it had no effect after 2 weeks and increasing the dosage after one week.
We moved onto Vetsulin 2x/day starting at 2 units and increased it every week until 9 units (and that's where we are for the past 2 weeks). Her numbers barely changed. She is no longer in DKA since switching to Vetsulin. (I check her urine often with Bayer Reagent strips.)
She eats a cup of Hills W/D kibble mixed with W/D wet along with a scrambled egg at 6:am & Hills W/D kibble mixed with W/D wet along with Real Meat dehydrated Chicken sprinkled on top at 6:00 pm and is on 9 units of insulin 2x/day, right after she eats. She has an excellent appetite but isn't starving like she was when her numbers were in the 600s.
Her water consumption and "output" is still way more than it should be but has noticeably improved since Vetsulin. (We use Prevail male guards Maximum Absorbency and they're saturated after 8 hours.)
I want to mention also her alertness and activity has noticeably increased and her breathing has dramatically improved, she no longer pants since being on Vetsulin.
Her Saturday noon BG checks at the vet's office have been in the 500s for weeks.
He was unavailable for the past two weeks so I've been closely monitoring her, and did a curve today.
(I'm using AlphaTrak w/ AT strips... meter tested with Control Solution with every new package of strips)
Here are her #s:
2/22 5:30 am 464
2/26 5:30 am 405
2/27 4:00 pm 525
2/29 6:00 am 451
3/5 4:00 pm 411
3/8 11:00 am 670
4:00 pm 577
3/9 4:00 pm 492
3/10 5:30 am 556
9:00 am 526
12:30 pm 636
3:30 pm 575
5:30 655
-I used another strip and got "HI" so I put in yet another strip and got
632
What are your thoughts? Should her insulin be increased?
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