Hi all,
I found this forum via google, so I am apologize if this post is in the wrong section. I am also jet-lagged from being in Bangkok for 10 days and now back home in Seattle.
My dog 8 year old lab/springer mix Nima was diagnosed with diabetes probably 1 year ago. He was placed on pork insulin, responded for a short period then switched to lispro, then to regular insulin. He was on regular insulin for a good chunk of time but continued to lose weight. I don't feel that he was ever properly regulated/monitored by his old vet. The vet at the time basically gave up on us/him and said we need to just feed him more. He didn't check Nima's blood sugar often, only when we switched insulins at the beginning.
1 month ago Nima was lethargic and had non-stop vomiting. Nima was in the ICU for 4 days due to DKA (we fired the first vet because we brought him to the vet and the vet didn't even take his blood sugar, but instead gave him IV fluid and sent him home). Post ICU stay at a new vet, he was then started on 10 units NPH twice a day. We've done 3 glucose curves and he is now on 14 units of NPH insulin twice a day, but his blood sugars remain in the 400s. I'm not really an expert, but I am an RN, and when I look at the curves he has obvious resistance. He has had chronic UTIs so right now he is being treated for a month with Amoxicillin, he's been on it already for about 1 week. There are talks of switching him to Detemir insulin.
It really distresses me that his blood sugars aren't moving in the right direction. I am concerned that he has Cushing's disease as in the last 8 months I've noticed the hair on his stomach is sparse. Additionally, he has calluses on his elbows that through research I have found to be consistent with canine Cushing's. I left a message with his Internist last night discussing my desire to have him tested, so I'll hear back in the AM. Has anyone had experience with Cushing's and Diabetes in their dog?
Can anyone give me any advice, direction, words of encouragement? Also, Nima REAAALLY hates being stuck at the vet for 12 hrs when they do his glucose curves. Has anyone had experiences where the vet let you perform the curves at home?
Thanks for all your help, advice, words of wisdom....
~P
I found this forum via google, so I am apologize if this post is in the wrong section. I am also jet-lagged from being in Bangkok for 10 days and now back home in Seattle.
My dog 8 year old lab/springer mix Nima was diagnosed with diabetes probably 1 year ago. He was placed on pork insulin, responded for a short period then switched to lispro, then to regular insulin. He was on regular insulin for a good chunk of time but continued to lose weight. I don't feel that he was ever properly regulated/monitored by his old vet. The vet at the time basically gave up on us/him and said we need to just feed him more. He didn't check Nima's blood sugar often, only when we switched insulins at the beginning.
1 month ago Nima was lethargic and had non-stop vomiting. Nima was in the ICU for 4 days due to DKA (we fired the first vet because we brought him to the vet and the vet didn't even take his blood sugar, but instead gave him IV fluid and sent him home). Post ICU stay at a new vet, he was then started on 10 units NPH twice a day. We've done 3 glucose curves and he is now on 14 units of NPH insulin twice a day, but his blood sugars remain in the 400s. I'm not really an expert, but I am an RN, and when I look at the curves he has obvious resistance. He has had chronic UTIs so right now he is being treated for a month with Amoxicillin, he's been on it already for about 1 week. There are talks of switching him to Detemir insulin.
It really distresses me that his blood sugars aren't moving in the right direction. I am concerned that he has Cushing's disease as in the last 8 months I've noticed the hair on his stomach is sparse. Additionally, he has calluses on his elbows that through research I have found to be consistent with canine Cushing's. I left a message with his Internist last night discussing my desire to have him tested, so I'll hear back in the AM. Has anyone had experience with Cushing's and Diabetes in their dog?
Can anyone give me any advice, direction, words of encouragement? Also, Nima REAAALLY hates being stuck at the vet for 12 hrs when they do his glucose curves. Has anyone had experiences where the vet let you perform the curves at home?
Thanks for all your help, advice, words of wisdom....
~P
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