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Using Humulin R with Humulin N
This will be long!
In Nov 2011 I got up around 6pm, after nursing Lily (at the time 6 months old), to find my Yorkie/Silky limp on the bathroom floor. My husband was in the middle of the Indian Ocean and I was alone!
I picked her up, grabbed the baby and put both in the car and then got our other dog and took her as well to the vet. Mandy (the diabetic) was tested and found to have a BG of 790 and was in diabetic ketoacidosis. I was told they closed in an hour I had to take her to the ER vet. At 2am, still waiting to be seen, I broke down and was no longer weeping but full blown wailing out crys for help.
She spent the weekend there and then I took her to the vet.
She was put on Humalin NPH 5u 2 times a day. It has been 6 months and she is still uncontrolled...until a few days ago.
I had asked my vet for other options other than Humalin N and was told I could put her in a 24 insulin. I told him that is the problem...she doesnt eat when you want her to eat and doesnt always eat the same amount and even worse she never ate dog food before all this happened. We were now mixing diabetic dog food with water in a mixer and syringe feeding her and she went from 15 lbs to 11! She wasnt overweight to begin with and now she is starving! (BTW she was on long term steriods for a skin allergy which caused the diabetes).
I said that the problem is she needs a fast acting short duration insulin to give her when she does eat.
He said that is not possible. I found this hard to believe seeing how insulin trials have to be tested on animals! He said no way to the Humalin R (fast and short).
So i did a bit of reseach and found that I could get it and I did.
I AM NOT A VET AND NOT A DOCTOR - just presenting this information as a possible solution for some dogs.
I found out what the correct dosing was per unit of Humulin R per kilo of weight per day. I started out at the lowest 0.5 of HR and the ususal NPH 5.5u.
We now have several hours during the day where her BG (we tested every hour for 2 weeks while trying out this new insulin) is mostly under 300 and gets to 200 for many hours of the day. before she was always 300-700 evenwith upping her HN by 0.5u she would crash and have seizures. So now we are giving her the HR at 0.5u at times that she eats.
In Nov 2011 I got up around 6pm, after nursing Lily (at the time 6 months old), to find my Yorkie/Silky limp on the bathroom floor. My husband was in the middle of the Indian Ocean and I was alone!
I picked her up, grabbed the baby and put both in the car and then got our other dog and took her as well to the vet. Mandy (the diabetic) was tested and found to have a BG of 790 and was in diabetic ketoacidosis. I was told they closed in an hour I had to take her to the ER vet. At 2am, still waiting to be seen, I broke down and was no longer weeping but full blown wailing out crys for help.
She spent the weekend there and then I took her to the vet.
She was put on Humalin NPH 5u 2 times a day. It has been 6 months and she is still uncontrolled...until a few days ago.
I had asked my vet for other options other than Humalin N and was told I could put her in a 24 insulin. I told him that is the problem...she doesnt eat when you want her to eat and doesnt always eat the same amount and even worse she never ate dog food before all this happened. We were now mixing diabetic dog food with water in a mixer and syringe feeding her and she went from 15 lbs to 11! She wasnt overweight to begin with and now she is starving! (BTW she was on long term steriods for a skin allergy which caused the diabetes).
I said that the problem is she needs a fast acting short duration insulin to give her when she does eat.
He said that is not possible. I found this hard to believe seeing how insulin trials have to be tested on animals! He said no way to the Humalin R (fast and short).
So i did a bit of reseach and found that I could get it and I did.
I AM NOT A VET AND NOT A DOCTOR - just presenting this information as a possible solution for some dogs.
I found out what the correct dosing was per unit of Humulin R per kilo of weight per day. I started out at the lowest 0.5 of HR and the ususal NPH 5.5u.
We now have several hours during the day where her BG (we tested every hour for 2 weeks while trying out this new insulin) is mostly under 300 and gets to 200 for many hours of the day. before she was always 300-700 evenwith upping her HN by 0.5u she would crash and have seizures. So now we are giving her the HR at 0.5u at times that she eats.
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