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Hello everyone,
After scanning the internet for I don’t know how many hours, days, weeks! I have just found this forum. I have an appointment with the vet next week but would love to know if anyone has been through anything similar or has any advice. I’m driving myself crazy.
I have a 6.5 female Doberman who was diagnosed with diabetes about 8 months ago, she was very very sick (ketoacidosis), we were very shocked to hear it as she was always so athletic and fed a raw diet. We’ve struggled to try and regulate her - she has 35 units twice a day now and is always thirsty and hungry. She has put on 20 lbs in the last few months. Shortly after she started improving from the insulin she started having bloody discharge, sores under her chin, an eye infection and sores i between her ‘toes’. We managed to fix her up after 2 courses of very strong antibiotics (which may her sick in itself). For a few months now she has been reasonably healthy other than excessive thirst and hunger (which in itself suggests she is not actually healthy). She has started having bloody discharge again, panting and light groaning occasionally. Still wants to eat, still wants to fetch her ball of an evening but lethargic in the day. She has a lump on the back of her leg (fatty cyst according to vet - it looks like a fatty cyst) but also a new lump on her throat - the size of a grape and hard to the touch. When she had the previous infection we were told definitely no cancer - she had all the tests and was told it was a bad case of vaginitis/infection.
Thank you for reading so far, I know it’s a lot. My questions are - could she be on too much insulin? (Drinking too much, hungry, panting…) Am I making her suffer?when do I know when to give up? When do we stop the regular antibiotics, when is enough enough of spending all of our money on vets and insulin (currently we spend around $700 a month on her medication and food not including any vets bills), vet bills have been thousands. I want to do what I can for my dog but I fear I can’t make any right decisions currently.
After scanning the internet for I don’t know how many hours, days, weeks! I have just found this forum. I have an appointment with the vet next week but would love to know if anyone has been through anything similar or has any advice. I’m driving myself crazy.
I have a 6.5 female Doberman who was diagnosed with diabetes about 8 months ago, she was very very sick (ketoacidosis), we were very shocked to hear it as she was always so athletic and fed a raw diet. We’ve struggled to try and regulate her - she has 35 units twice a day now and is always thirsty and hungry. She has put on 20 lbs in the last few months. Shortly after she started improving from the insulin she started having bloody discharge, sores under her chin, an eye infection and sores i between her ‘toes’. We managed to fix her up after 2 courses of very strong antibiotics (which may her sick in itself). For a few months now she has been reasonably healthy other than excessive thirst and hunger (which in itself suggests she is not actually healthy). She has started having bloody discharge again, panting and light groaning occasionally. Still wants to eat, still wants to fetch her ball of an evening but lethargic in the day. She has a lump on the back of her leg (fatty cyst according to vet - it looks like a fatty cyst) but also a new lump on her throat - the size of a grape and hard to the touch. When she had the previous infection we were told definitely no cancer - she had all the tests and was told it was a bad case of vaginitis/infection.
Thank you for reading so far, I know it’s a lot. My questions are - could she be on too much insulin? (Drinking too much, hungry, panting…) Am I making her suffer?when do I know when to give up? When do we stop the regular antibiotics, when is enough enough of spending all of our money on vets and insulin (currently we spend around $700 a month on her medication and food not including any vets bills), vet bills have been thousands. I want to do what I can for my dog but I fear I can’t make any right decisions currently.
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