My beloved Ladywolf was just diagnosed today with diabetes, on top of having serious cancerous tumors on the inside of one hind leg, and a bad skin infection for which she is taking antibiotics. Starting tomorrow (I presume), I will be giving her insulin injections twice a day.
I have been shopping around on the internet for prices, generics, etc. for insulin--and now I'm confused. My vet said she would recommend Humulin N, 11 units twice a day, from a 10 ml bottle. Some postings said that Walmart sells the same insulin as "Novolin N," then someone else said that it was called something else but couldn't remember what...
Others of you with diabetic dogs--what insulin do you use, where do you buy it, and what do you pay for it (and for syringes)? Is Walmart my best bet, whatever they actually call the stuff? Do you do urine tests on your dogs daily, or occasionally?
I'm feeling pretty overwhelmed tonight. I'm okay with giving injections--I just feel really stressed out. I have two long threads in the Death ad Dying Pet Support Forum explaining the long road that Lady and I have already traveled with her cancer--it's been a tough one and is about to get tougher. I will be completely attached to having to be here every morning and evening now, won't I? I am almost all the time anyway, but fear that I may begin to feel trapped by these new circumstances. These are my icky feelings. On the plus side, I am really hoping that Ladywolf will respond to the insulin by feeling a lot better fairly quickly.
She IS fifteen, so none of this is a huge surprise--it's just caught me offguard and unprepared, this latest development. Poor Ladywolf. Poor Margi!
Big hugs to everyone--
Margi and the Wonder Wolf