Your dog's diet, insulin, and meter used

[pugaholic68]

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Dogs Name: Koda Bear

Breed: rat terrier chihuahua mix (per mixed breed DNA test)

Birthday : 3/11/2011

Weight: 12lbs (Barely 8lbs when diagnosed at 6 months of age and surrendered to vet by owner. Adopted by me at 8 months old)

Diet: fed at7am and 7pm
1/2cup Wellness Small Breed Healthy Weight
2TBL Solid Gold Green Cow (Tripe)
1TBL pure pumpkin
splash chicken broth

Insulin: Levimer 1unit and a smidge twice a day after meals. One unit is not enough and 1.25 is too much. Usually fasting readings are low 100's so I wait 45min to an hour to give insulin so he can make it 12 hours. If going low give penny size dab of honey or nutrical and 3 home baked chicken pieces

Alpha Trak2 meter used with Free Style lite strips. Test am/pm fasting, then around 3pm and before bed time to make sure he won't go low overnight.

[pugaholic68]

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Trying to respond to "YODA'S" POST

I had Koda on WD dry, Koda ate it but I hated it. Made a switch to Wellness Small Breed Healthy weight last Oct. Did good til about Christmas then decided to be picky. Tried all the tricks, now give alittle less kibble and Solid Gold Green Cow (tripe), eats like a champ.

[mzjazy]

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Kia

Min Pin 13 yrs old female. Was 16lbs but has gone down to 13lbs.

Relion Novolin: 4units 2 x a day
just diagnosed at Christmas time

Diet: She was eating Blue but didn't like it and I could not afford it. Right now shes eating whatever I can find. Due to $ its difficult.

I'm going to get a meter but dont know what kind

[armychick2001]

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Dog's name is Riley he is an Australian cattle dog mixed with a Husky he is 5 years old and will be 6 years old June 2013.

He weighs 70 pounds, I am trying to get him down to 60 pounds.

He was on Healthwise and am switching him to a homemade diet, any advice or recipe will be greatly appreciated.

He is on Novolin N and gets 13 units 2x a day for now.

I have not done any testing at home and would love some advice about how to do this and which meter would be best. Thanks.

My name is Wendy

[jrtmom1313]

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Jedi

11 year old JRT diagnosed 6 weeks ago

Weight - 18.5 lbs

Diet - small amount of natural balance ultra reduced calorie dry, with 1/3 can of Royal Canin Venison 2 x a day
Treats - dehydrated grean beans, low calorie liver treats, homemade chicken treats

Humulin - 6 1/2 units twice a day - Alphatrak meter

Jedi also has COPD - he gets Flovent, Allergies - Atopica, Heart Murmur - Enalapryl

[heinzle]

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Sammie

Golden/Collie mix

7 years old - diagnosed June, 2011

Nature's Variety Limited Ingredient Lamb (Sammie has skin allergies) fed 4 different times per day

Novolin N 19.5 U/am 15 U/pm

Alphatrack - works great and is pretty cheap!

Sammie is treated for diabetes, skin allergies and Addison's - all requiring shots so she's affectionally referred to as my pin cushion :-(

[Calicocalypso]

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Rosie

Jack Russell Terrier cross

12 years old-diagnosed September 2012 after Ketoacidosis- still working on sorting diet and insulin

Orijen Senior- fed twice a day with added raw broccoli, carrot and occasionally black beans

Caninsulin X 2 day 10 units each - hoping to change to human insulin to save money

Using urine strips most days and from time to time Alphatrak- hoping to change to cheaper strips

Rosie has had epilepsy since 1 year old. Presently on 1.8 MLS bromide per day.
Also maintenance dose of Metacam for arthritis.
Bouts of vomiting bile maybe caused by bromide or metacam.

[hummingbird49]

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Beneful Healthy weight is what my dog was on when diagnosed with diabetes. Not a great food. He was vomiting while on it but is doing better on Professional Senior chicken and barley.

[ABBIE'SMOM]

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Hello! I have been reading all the posts for hours!
Abbie newly diagnosed!
Just transitioning her to Science Diet Adult Lite
Started with Novolin N 12u per the Vet's Weight F

[Cabindream]

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9+ yr old spayed black lab female. Diagnosed Diabetic 02/06/13 & Hypothyroid 04/12. Currently giving Humulin N/15 u BID. Feed Wellness Core Original (only food found that keeps allergies under control) OneTouch Ultra 2. I highly recommend Glucose Companion for iPad to track the numbers!

[Eddie]

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Eddie is a cross between a Labrador and a Golden Retriever. He is 9 years old. Diagnosed diabetic in October 2012.
He weighs about 27 kg. Was 30 kg just before diagnosis and got down to 24 before we got him a bit more regulated.
He has 13 units of Caninsulin morning and night injected as he eats at 7am and 6pm.
He eats Orijen Fish and Canagan Salmon - both grain free. We are moving to 100% Canagan as Orijen is becoming very difficult to find in the UK. He has a digestive disorder so we have to give him artificial enzymes to help digest his food and he has food split into 4 meals per day to help with this.
I use a OneTouch Ultra meter and get fairly cheap strips on Ebay. We also test urine several times a day (Diastix) and chart all the results then test BG if the urine results seem out of line.

[ABBIE'SMOM]

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Abbie
Diet: Science Diet Adult light 1 3/4 c -2x per day
supplement with cooked Chicken, Chicken livers,Kashi 7 grain,Green
beans, broccoli,brussel sprouts, food process together w/ low-fat chicken broth (approx 1/4c per meal)

Insulin: Novolin N -11 units -2 x per day

Meter: None at this time -Would like input on iPet meter. Looked @ both iPet & alpha2. Have read input from this forum on alpha 2, but not iPet. Have not purchased either.
Plan on ordering urine test strips until decide on meter.

[kathiekb]

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My 10 year old yellow lab Maggie was diagnosed 4 years ago with diabetes. She developed cataracts and went blind very quickly. She has been fairly regulated until recently. Her last blood curve at the vets office had a low of 406 and a high of 571. My vet has never suggested to me that I could test Maggies blood myself nor had I ever heard of it until I came here. I have a Freestyle Freedom Lite meter and would like to start testing her myself. My vet said I should raise her insulin to 24 units twice daily up from 22 units. She eats 10 cups of dry wd daily split into 2 meals 12 hours apart and still continues to loose weight. Her current weight is 70 lbs. I would really appreciate any input your members can give me. She is the love of my life and I want to do all I can for her.

[cottons mom]

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dog is female 10 year old west highland white terrier. diet is sd wd can, insulin is Novolin, not yet using a meter, going to the vet office for gc. we are one month into this diabetes journey. feed 2x a day 12 hours apart. I give the insulin one hour before feeding so far no problem with cotton eating her meals. I would like to begin in home gc. I give 3 units in the a.m and 5 units in the p.m. our march 29 curve was 260 280 444 349 407 last friday our curve was 217 280 ??? 440 420.

[mollysmom]

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my Molly was diagnoised a couple months ago, diet is Puriena One Lamb and Rice mixed with can, is on Novolin N insulin and I use a ReLiOn Prime meter