Internal & hormonal
Diabetes
Just diagnosed, starting insulin, getting glucose under control and living well day to day.
6 stages · 35 guides from PetsLikeMine
Who can help near you
- Your vet1 kind
- Specialists2 kinds
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Just diagnosed: what now?
Stage 1 · 6 guides from PetsLikeMine
Diabetes in Dogs and Cats: The Same Word, Two Different DiseasesWhen a dog or a cat is diagnosed as diabetic, most owners' minds reach straight for what they know about diabetes in people: a relative who injects insulin, a colleague…9 min read · on PetsLikeMine "Is This a Death Sentence?" The Real Prognosis for a Diabetic PetIt's the question really underneath all the others, even when no one says it out loud. An owner takes in the word diabetes, asks sensible things about insulin and diet…10 min read · on PetsLikeMine What Diabetes Actually Is in Dogs and CatsWhen I tell an owner their dog or cat has diabetes, I can see the same thing happen behind their eyes. They half-remember something about human diabetes, sugar…10 min read · on PetsLikeMine
Starting insulin
Stage 2 · 6 guides from PetsLikeMine
Your First Insulin Injection: How To Do It Without FearThere's a moment I've come to recognise in the consult room. The owner has the diagnosis and the kit, they've nodded along to everything, and then I hand them a loaded…11 min read · on PetsLikeMine Hypos: The Emergency Every Diabetic Owner Must Be Ready ForOf all the things I tell a new diabetic owner, this is the one I'd ask you to hold onto hardest. Most of the daily routine you're learning is forgiving: get the timing a…11 min read · on PetsLikeMine The Insulin Types Explained (and the New Oral Options for Cats)Most owners meet their pet's insulin as a single box pushed across the desk, a name they've never heard, with no sense of why that one. Then they search it and fall into…12 min read · on PetsLikeMine
Getting the glucose under control
Stage 3 · 6 guides from PetsLikeMine
Home Blood Glucose Monitoring: Curves and Spot-Checks, Done ProperlyThe first time most owners hear the words "blood glucose curve", the real question follows fast: you want me to take my pet's blood, at home, with a needle, every couple…11 min read · on PetsLikeMine Continuous Glucose Monitors (FreeStyle Libre) on Pets: The Leap ForwardA few years ago, knowing what your diabetic pet's glucose did across a day meant grim choices: a row of finger or ear pricks at home, or a long, stressful day at the…12 min read · on PetsLikeMine How Insulin Dose Titration Works (and Why It Takes Weeks)There's a question I can almost set my watch by. About two or three weeks after a pet starts insulin, the owner rings, and somewhere in the first minute it comes out: "I…9 min read · on PetsLikeMine
Living well day to day
Stage 4 · 6 guides from PetsLikeMine
Settling Into the Daily Routine That WorksThere's a moment, usually around the third or fourth week, when an owner rings the practice and I can hear that something has shifted. The panic has gone, the needle…10 min read · on PetsLikeMine What To Watch at Home: The Signs That Tell You How Control Is GoingIn the early weeks, owners ask me a version of the same anxious question: "How do I know if it's working?" Behind it sits the assumption that the answer lives in a…10 min read · on PetsLikeMine Diabetic Cataracts in Dogs: Spotting and Managing the Blindness RiskThere's a phone call I take more than almost any other from owners of newly diagnosed diabetic dogs. The dog was fine. Then, over a weekend, the eyes went cloudy and the…12 min read · on PetsLikeMine
Remission and the best outcomes
Stage 5 · 5 guides from PetsLikeMine
Feline Diabetic Remission: Real, and the Window Is NowWhen I tell an owner that their newly diagnosed cat might one day come off insulin altogether, I often watch the same thing happen on their face: hope, then a flicker of…11 min read · on PetsLikeMine Giving Your Cat the Best Shot at Remission: The PlaybookWhen an owner first hears that a cat, unlike a dog, can sometimes stop being diabetic, the next question is almost always the practical one. Not "is it true," but "what…11 min read · on PetsLikeMine Staying in Remission, and Spotting a Relapse EarlyThere's a particular happiness I see in owners whose cat has just come off insulin. Relief, mostly, after weeks of injections and finger-pricks and worry. And then…11 min read · on PetsLikeMine
When diabetes is hard to control
Stage 6 · 6 guides from PetsLikeMine
The Unstable, Brittle Diabetic: Why Control Slips, and What To DoThere's a particular kind of tiredness I've learned to recognise across the consulting table, and it doesn't belong to the pet. It belongs to the person opposite: the…10 min read · on PetsLikeMine The Concurrent Diseases That Fight Your InsulinThe dose has crept up again. We're at numbers that would have sounded alarming three months ago, the glucose curve is still a flat high line that barely dips, and you're…12 min read · on PetsLikeMine Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA): The Emergency and Its Warning SignsDiabetes can throw up two emergencies, and they run in opposite directions. One is the hypo: too much insulin, a blood sugar that crashes in minutes, the wobbly…10 min read · on PetsLikeMine
Find care near you
Your diabetes care team
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- Your vet (primary care)
Internal-medicine specialist ·Referral hospital
Understand the condition
Clinical background on vetcanon, the ConciergeVet reference library. Vetcanon is published by Concierge Vet LTD, which also operates PetCare Atlas.
With PetsLikeMine
Read the whole journey on PetsLikeMine
Every diabetes guide, in order, sits in its own space on PetsLikeMine, written by owners and vets who have been through it. We show the first few here and link to the rest.
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