Re: How long from diagnosis to regulation?
I wanted to add....this was a VERY good thread to start! Especially for those of us who feel like failures not being able to get them regulated.
Because of this site I learned that, as everyone has said, it is not an exact science. For months in the beginning I thought...well, when are we going to get the magic number? Then, once we do that will be it. How naive I was.
Getting their INITIAL dose correct is more likely the key and then and only then do we have a sort of baseline. When anything changes physcially (like pain or an acute infection), the numbers will change. Even environmental changes, or hot weather, or a thunder storm. I don't want this to sound dramatic, but it is true...life is about change and the diabetes just needs to be controlled with the ever changing things that happen along the way.
Regulation is likely the wrong word used to describe what we are trying to achieve. I think of it more as; control, management, balancing (even the Thesaurus uses these synonyms for the word 'regulation' and even uses it in a sentence referring to diabetes regulation!).
This is a great thread and I'm sure many of us who are not new to k9 diabetes and the junior members of the site will gain a lot of wisdom knowing everyone struggles with 'regulation'.
I wanted to add....this was a VERY good thread to start! Especially for those of us who feel like failures not being able to get them regulated.
Because of this site I learned that, as everyone has said, it is not an exact science. For months in the beginning I thought...well, when are we going to get the magic number? Then, once we do that will be it. How naive I was.
Getting their INITIAL dose correct is more likely the key and then and only then do we have a sort of baseline. When anything changes physcially (like pain or an acute infection), the numbers will change. Even environmental changes, or hot weather, or a thunder storm. I don't want this to sound dramatic, but it is true...life is about change and the diabetes just needs to be controlled with the ever changing things that happen along the way.
Regulation is likely the wrong word used to describe what we are trying to achieve. I think of it more as; control, management, balancing (even the Thesaurus uses these synonyms for the word 'regulation' and even uses it in a sentence referring to diabetes regulation!).
This is a great thread and I'm sure many of us who are not new to k9 diabetes and the junior members of the site will gain a lot of wisdom knowing everyone struggles with 'regulation'.
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