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Originally Posted by nj234  Thanks to all here helping me. Goodness I am having trouble as a new owner knowing where to post and how to do all of this. Administrator tells me to reply with update and thought I did! Wow...for now if I make mistakes forgive me. I am grateful to all of you. I will try and get a reading to everyone on Jake on Thursday with this new insulin hike and the insulin IS...... Novolin N...from Walmart. He is registering glucose of HI (off the meter) in the morning . My question. Would you increase it ONE WHOLE unit or should increase be half units to be sure of no hypoglycemic incident with too much too fast. One more question to all who are regulated. Do any of you check with glucose strips and if your yorkies are regulated what is the reading as my vet said that THERE SHOULD ALWAYS BE GLUCOSE IN URINE. No Ketones BUT glucose reading should show sugar he said. SO SO many thanks to all!  Using 30 gage needle...is 31 smaller? Norma Jean |
Did you get the pm I sent you last night? The members on the canines diabetes forum are really going to be more helpful than those of us here on YT since so few have dogs w/diabetes.
Novolin N from Walmart is what I use. 30 gauge needles are fine. Are you giving two injections a day? NPH insulin only lasts 12 hours.
I am not sure why your vet would tell you it is normal for urine strips to show sugar. They should be negative. Glucose does not spill into the urine unless the blood glucose is too high.
Can you ask for a referral to an internal medicine vet? Some vets just don't see enough cases to be that familiar with diabetes. The fact that your guy might also have Cushings makes his case more complicated. If he were mine, I would take him to a specialist.