Furbaby recently diagnosed with diabetes.

Wendy_Mimo

Wendy_Mimo

Member Since 2019
Hi everyone My name is Wendy and my furbaby’s name is Mimo. She is 10 years old and weighs 20 pounds. She’s a big girl lol She was recently diagnosed with diabetes and is on 2 IU of Lantus every 12 hours. I wasn’t told to test her BG before giving her injections. They told me to give her this dose every 12 hours for 2 weeks and take her in on July 8th for an insulin curve. They also told me to feed her 2 times a day, but prior to this she was free fed. I have her on canned Purina DM and Fancy Feast pate. I’m just wondering what’s a good BG moniter to purchase, what numbers are normal, what’s considered too low and too high? How much food should be eaten before giving her the injection? Is it okay if I allow her to nibble throughout the day? Any advice would help. Thanks in advance!
 
Hi there Wendy. I too am Wendy and the pretty girl in my picture was my diabetic girl.

Can you tell us a little bit about how you found out Mimo was diabetic? What symptoms?

I see you live in Alberta, I too am in Canada, just further west. We have some US suggestions in the Sticky Notes on Insulin Care and Syringe Info. All the sticky notes are recommended reading. I cross border shopped for my syringes. I am tagging a few other Canadians to see what they use. @Ti-Mousse @AmandaE @Judy and Boomer

As for feeding, multiple small meals or grazing is fine. For the first while, do pull the food a couple hours before the shot so your test before shooting isn’t influenced by the food she has just eaten.
 
Hi Wendy and Mimo!

Welcome to FDMB :D

I live about 4.5hrs North of you in Fort Mac. For Mowgli’s diabetic supplies I use Shoppers, it’s the most affordable that I’ve found in town so far, and I can use my optimum points towards supplies. Because you’re in Edmonton, you might have some better options: for example, I’ve heard you can get some good deals at costco. @Tracey&Jones (GA) is from Edmonton... any tips for Wendy?

I use the freestyle lite because at my shoppers the strips / lancets were the cheapest, it requires very little blood to get results, and the reading comes quickly. It also stores a lot of results. I don’t know if it was a promotion at the time or regular business but when I bought 100test strips I got the monitor for free and it came with a carrying case for the monitor, test strips and lancets. For beginner lancets I use 28 gauge because I can get a reliable bead of blood from Mowgli’s ears. I don’t personally use the lancet pen because I feel like I have less control with it.

I use BD Ultra fine syringes and buy a box at a time. The box looks like this
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They have half unit markings which is really important for fine dosing (since we increase/decrease by 0.25u at a time here)

You can get a Sharp’s container over the counter too, some places you pay a deposit and they just give you a new one every time you return it full. At shoppers they gave me one for free.

All together a full restock of diabetic items without cashing in optimum points costs about 135CAD but it’s rare that I ever have to restock all at once. Keep in mind I’m in a northern community so I’d say I pay a little more.

Good luck with everything :D
 
Well, Amanda was just ahead of me! She said it all, I use exactly the same things; when you chose a meter, always keep in mind that your biggest expense will be the strips! Free Style Lite uses the smallest blood sample compare to the others! Where I live the cheapest price for my strips is $75.00 for 100, so it adds up fast!

This link will give you plenty of basic information on insulin, food, meters, ideal weight, blood glucose numbers, regulation; you will also see how to set up your SS!

Keep posting and asking all your questions, we're there to help you and your cute little Mimo!
 
Wendy&Neko said:
Hi there Wendy. I too am Wendy and the pretty girl in my picture was my diabetic girl.

Can you tell us a little bit about how you found out Mimo was diabetic? What symptoms?

I see you live in Alberta, I too am in Canada, just further west. We have some US suggestions in the Sticky Notes on Insulin Care and Syringe Info. All the sticky notes are recommended reading. I cross border shopped for my syringes. I am tagging a few other Canadians to see what they use. @Ti-Mousse @AmandaE @Judy and Boomer

As for feeding, multiple small meals or grazing is fine. For the first while, do pull the food a couple hours before the shot so your test before shooting isn’t influenced by the food she has just eaten.
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Hi Wendy Mimo had blood in her urine so we took her in and she was on antibiotics for two weeks for an infection. That Friday they also did blood work, and the results came in on Monday and it was confirmed that she had diabetes. I feel a little overwhelmed, but I’m determined to take the best care of her that I can.
 
AmandaE said:
Hi Wendy and Mimo!

Welcome to FDMB :D

I live about 4.5hrs North of you in Fort Mac. For Mowgli’s diabetic supplies I use Shoppers, it’s the most affordable that I’ve found in town so far, and I can use my optimum points towards supplies. Because you’re in Edmonton, you might have some better options: for example, I’ve heard you can get some good deals at costco. @Tracey&Jones (GA) is from Edmonton... any tips for Wendy?

I use the freestyle lite because at my shoppers the strips / lancets were the cheapest, it requires very little blood to get results, and the reading comes quickly. It also stores a lot of results. I don’t know if it was a promotion at the time or regular business but when I bought 100test strips I got the monitor for free and it came with a carrying case for the monitor, test strips and lancets. For beginner lancets I use 28 gauge because I can get a reliable bead of blood from Mowgli’s ears. I don’t personally use the lancet pen because I feel like I have less control with it.

I use BD Ultra fine syringes and buy a box at a time. The box looks like this View attachment 45962
They have half unit markings which is really important for fine dosing (since we increase/decrease by 0.25u at a time here)

You can get a Sharp’s container over the counter too, some places you pay a deposit and they just give you a new one every time you return it full. At shoppers they gave me one for free.

All together a full restock of diabetic items without cashing in optimum points costs about 135CAD but it’s rare that I ever have to restock all at once. Keep in mind I’m in a northern community so I’d say I pay a little more.

Good luck with everything :D
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Hi Amanda thank you so much for all the information. It’s very helpful.
 
Ti-Mousse said:
Well, Amanda was just ahead of me! She said it all, I use exactly the same things; when you chose a meter, always keep in mind that your biggest expense will be the strips! Free Style Lite uses the smallest blood sample compare to the others! Where I live the cheapest price for my strips is $75.00 for 100, so it adds up fast!

This link will give you plenty of basic information on insulin, food, meters, ideal weight, blood glucose numbers, regulation; you will also see how to set up your SS!

Keep posting and asking all your questions, we're there to help you and your cute little Mimo!
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Thank you
 
Hi Wendy and Mimo! I am in Ontario! I use the same BD syringes that Amanda posted about. I use the One Touch Ultra 2 meter and test strips.
 
Costco has the pens 5 for $95.38. You don't need a prescription or a membership to use the pharmacy.

Superstore is another one that is fairly cheap for prescriptions and they do take pet ones.

Yeah, another Edmontonian. @Noah & me (GA) - look!
 
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