My MinPin mix (Paxton) was diagnosed with diabetes last December. He is a big MinPin, about 28 lbs when diagnosed. We have 2 vets since we travel between Alabama and Florida a lot. Our vet in FL prescribed 5 units of Vetsulin twice a day. His BG starts at ~400 and then drops slowly during the day, staying over 300 until the last reading is ~250 near feeding time. The next check showed the same trend, so the dose was upped to 6 units twice a day. After some more occasions of excess urination and thirst we upped to 8 units twice a day. In March of 2018 our original vet started a BG curve which showed exactly the same trend (starts at 400 drops slowly through 300s) until Paxton started to vomit, where she cut off the test in the early PM. She changed the dose to 15 units, twice a day (the dog only weighs 22.5 lbs now). Just had a new curve done in FL - same result. Starts at 400, drops slowly through the 300s. Last one didn't do a late (5 pm) test so it didn't quite reach 250s. This data seems to show resistance to Vetsulin in particular and maybe insulin in general. Vet wants to increase dose to 17 units twice a day. Don't know what to do!
I'll post a chart of his curves if someone will tell me how to post it - can't figure out what the URL would be for the chart since it is on my computer.
I'll post a chart of his curves if someone will tell me how to post it - can't figure out what the URL would be for the chart since it is on my computer.
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