Hi everyone,
My pooch, Maura, is an 8 year old Siberian Husky who was recently diagnosed (2 weeks ago). She was in dka when we figured out what was happening and she had a hospital stay, and they released her when her blood sugar came down some. They gave her an initial prescription of 20 units of Vetsulin and we’ve been following all the rules, two meals a day 12 hours apart, insulin directly after. She seemed to be getting more lethargic and our alphatrak 2 came in and I decided to do a blood glucose curve to see what was happening since the spot reading I did was around 400. Her bg only went up from there during the day (I can post the full curve if needed) and came back down into the 400s later in the day. Called the vet with my worries and he was irritated that I’d done a home curve because they don’t recommend owners doing their own curves at home (???). Either way, his solution was to increase her dose to 22 units and see how that works out. Today I did a spot check 8.5 hours after her morning dose and her bg was 655. I am extremely frustrated and not sure what to do at this point. I know it’s early on but the readings I’m getting just keep getting higher, not lower.
Anyone have any ideas? I was doing a lot of reading about insulin resistance and somogyi overswings/ rebound but the vet just brushed me off when I asked about possibilities.
Edited to add:
Maura is 62 lbs
Eating 2.5 cups of Ketona salmon per day
Cheers,
Erin and Maura
My pooch, Maura, is an 8 year old Siberian Husky who was recently diagnosed (2 weeks ago). She was in dka when we figured out what was happening and she had a hospital stay, and they released her when her blood sugar came down some. They gave her an initial prescription of 20 units of Vetsulin and we’ve been following all the rules, two meals a day 12 hours apart, insulin directly after. She seemed to be getting more lethargic and our alphatrak 2 came in and I decided to do a blood glucose curve to see what was happening since the spot reading I did was around 400. Her bg only went up from there during the day (I can post the full curve if needed) and came back down into the 400s later in the day. Called the vet with my worries and he was irritated that I’d done a home curve because they don’t recommend owners doing their own curves at home (???). Either way, his solution was to increase her dose to 22 units and see how that works out. Today I did a spot check 8.5 hours after her morning dose and her bg was 655. I am extremely frustrated and not sure what to do at this point. I know it’s early on but the readings I’m getting just keep getting higher, not lower.
Anyone have any ideas? I was doing a lot of reading about insulin resistance and somogyi overswings/ rebound but the vet just brushed me off when I asked about possibilities.
Edited to add:
Maura is 62 lbs
Eating 2.5 cups of Ketona salmon per day
Cheers,
Erin and Maura
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