Duchess is less diabetic

[cjsmith]

Blood glucose readings Sunday:

7:30 breakfast
7:50 3 units insulin
7:53 68
10:08 46
10:10 Gave more food!
10:48 44 (but no sign of lethargy or stumbling)
Gave up on curve; gave food and treats. No insulin given in the evening.

Monday:

7:15 breakfast, NO insulin
7:59 136

With readings like that, I guessed she wasn't diabetic at all any more. This could explain those episodes she's had! Her glucose could be getting very low! I brought her in to the vet this morning & they got a reading of 330. Oops. She's always higher at the clinic, but that's way up there. So the doctor says she should go down to one unit twice a day.

That's not bad. If I'm giving her insulin, I'll remember to do my own B12 injection. I forgot that this morning.

Comments

[nosrednayduj]

I just punted on the whole vet thing after the first year or so and completely managed Mottle's diabetes at home. She went into remission about every two months for a couple months. I just did urine strip tests (helps she didn't use the box and there was a puddle, oops ;-) until they came out black, then started testing glucose and figuring out how much insulin she needed, ramping up and down as needed.

I was on fertility meds at the time, and had access to sterile saline in needle bottles and empty needle bottles for mixing the meds, and I just borrowed some to make my own diluted insulin for easier microdosing!

Go Duchess in remission!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That's pretty cool that you could do that! Honestly, if/when I move away from this vet clinic, I'm probably going to manage Duchess entirely on my own as well.

Many good thoughts to Ken. Fingers crossed for him.