Our 9 year old lab, Maize was diagnosed with diabetes just about 13 months ago. She's 80 lbs, some neuropothy in her rear legs, eats WD Special diet diabetic and get 27 units of Novolin N twice a day. Small snack at about 3:30PM every afternoon (1/4 cup fit n trim)
About a week ago Maize was at the Vet for her all day test curve and again the results were high 350 to 425 range......Vet doesn't want to up her dosage any more and we left with no change to anything we are currently doing. Maize gets kind of nervous at the Vet and the Vet feels maybe that is also contributing to the higher readings.
Her energy level is good, we walk about 1/2 to 3/4's of a mile a day or until her back legs start to cause problems....she drinks about 1 1/2 to 2 qts of water per 24hrs and this is consistent.
She's a good dog and if u didn't know u would think she's 100% healthy.....trouble is we are discouraged that the readings are high and 27 units sounds like a lot of insulin.
We want to start testing her sugar levels at home....CR recently has rated the Freestyle Freedom Lite and Accu-Check as two of their top glucometer choices....anyone have any experience with these units?
Finally we are open to any suggestions on steps we could investigate that could lower Maize's numbers.....just found and registered on this forum today and will certainly start looking at everyone's experience and suggestions.
Thanks for any help!
About a week ago Maize was at the Vet for her all day test curve and again the results were high 350 to 425 range......Vet doesn't want to up her dosage any more and we left with no change to anything we are currently doing. Maize gets kind of nervous at the Vet and the Vet feels maybe that is also contributing to the higher readings.
Her energy level is good, we walk about 1/2 to 3/4's of a mile a day or until her back legs start to cause problems....she drinks about 1 1/2 to 2 qts of water per 24hrs and this is consistent.
She's a good dog and if u didn't know u would think she's 100% healthy.....trouble is we are discouraged that the readings are high and 27 units sounds like a lot of insulin.
We want to start testing her sugar levels at home....CR recently has rated the Freestyle Freedom Lite and Accu-Check as two of their top glucometer choices....anyone have any experience with these units?
Finally we are open to any suggestions on steps we could investigate that could lower Maize's numbers.....just found and registered on this forum today and will certainly start looking at everyone's experience and suggestions.
Thanks for any help!
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