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I think you can say snowballs curve is established with a drop after insulin and food and its a pretty good drop on most occasions
My jesse had a similar problem and it was difficult to figure out what would work. What was problematic was the drop and we needed to solve that to get jesse regulated . I tried different highly digestible carbs and even honey to slow that drop with limited success . I ended up delaying her shot by a half hour to an hour after eating which had limited success
What i ended up doing was splitting her dose half with dinner and the other half 2 hours later which made a big difference . I think the problem with jesse she just could not handle one larger dose . It just was hard on her and its possible her body is not completely comfortable with humane insulin but in smaller doses she was ok . Now this is just a theory of mine what works for jesse may not work for any other dog . She does have a unique routine .
Can you correlate any of the physical symptoms with levels in blood sugar ?
Does snowball feel better when sugar was lower?
There was a small dog on here i think his name was alfie who never had very good regulation but lived a happy dogs life without any physical symptoms that limited him from running around being a dog
How is appetite ? are stools good . You said you picked snowball up and she cried may showing there could be some abdomen pain but also that could be spinal pain
There is a big difference in symptoms of weakness and pain . As I suggested abdomen pain can be a symptom of pancreatitis which is very painful and life threatening not sure if you dog has had it for as long as your dog has showed symptoms . I am not sure a dog could survive with the disease for months on end and not go into crisis but who knows for sure . Some dogs showed minor symptoms and still were diagnosed with pancreatitis . It also would create unstable blood sugar
It appears reductions in the dose keeps levels about the same so i think you have to figure out how to solve whats problematic which is the drop after insulin either by dosing or food or a combination of both . Like i said jesse food had limited success and the variables are difficult to control with just food alone but many have done well just adding something to the diet which helped
I think you can say snowballs curve is established with a drop after insulin and food and its a pretty good drop on most occasions
My jesse had a similar problem and it was difficult to figure out what would work. What was problematic was the drop and we needed to solve that to get jesse regulated . I tried different highly digestible carbs and even honey to slow that drop with limited success . I ended up delaying her shot by a half hour to an hour after eating which had limited success
What i ended up doing was splitting her dose half with dinner and the other half 2 hours later which made a big difference . I think the problem with jesse she just could not handle one larger dose . It just was hard on her and its possible her body is not completely comfortable with humane insulin but in smaller doses she was ok . Now this is just a theory of mine what works for jesse may not work for any other dog . She does have a unique routine .
Can you correlate any of the physical symptoms with levels in blood sugar ?
Does snowball feel better when sugar was lower?
There was a small dog on here i think his name was alfie who never had very good regulation but lived a happy dogs life without any physical symptoms that limited him from running around being a dog
How is appetite ? are stools good . You said you picked snowball up and she cried may showing there could be some abdomen pain but also that could be spinal pain
There is a big difference in symptoms of weakness and pain . As I suggested abdomen pain can be a symptom of pancreatitis which is very painful and life threatening not sure if you dog has had it for as long as your dog has showed symptoms . I am not sure a dog could survive with the disease for months on end and not go into crisis but who knows for sure . Some dogs showed minor symptoms and still were diagnosed with pancreatitis . It also would create unstable blood sugar
It appears reductions in the dose keeps levels about the same so i think you have to figure out how to solve whats problematic which is the drop after insulin either by dosing or food or a combination of both . Like i said jesse food had limited success and the variables are difficult to control with just food alone but many have done well just adding something to the diet which helped
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