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Hi all.
Oh, Bingo is as hungry as ever and has not been off his food at all. Considering the pred has been lowered considerably since the beginning, I’ve come to the conclusion he is a glutton.
Brigitte, I sympathise with you, we’re still in daylight saving time here. We start a month before everyone and change back a month after so we get almost 2 months of extra daylight. We change at the end of this month and turn our clocks back and I’m soooo looking forward to that extra hour on that first Sunday morning. It’s also still amazingly hot , much too hot for Autumn – I know that affects Bingo too. Thanks for the potato info. I bought new potatoes which are little white ones and the kumara is definitely the sweet potato.
I’m not going to panic (much) but I do want to wait before the next test. Linda I was giving Bingo a whole 3 drops of milk thistle at night, so the dose he’s getting now is much much more. I’m hoping that will affect the next set of results.
I made him Dr Dodd’s liver cleansing fish and potato. Well he loved that. I’ve made up a batch and put in the freezer and I’ll give it to him a few days a week.
With the lowering of the pred again too, I can’t stop watching him. No sign of anything though and it’s been a whole 3 and a half days.
He was most indignant at the vets last time. They did a neurological test on him as he had had the, they called it, episode (I called it seizure). The test involved turning his feet over and he would flip them back. Hammer to each knee joint to check the reflex. AND THEN….he got poked in both eyes with a cotton bud, the cotton bud then gets poked up each nostrils and then vet puts his finger down Bingo’s throat – WELL!!!
Thank you my dear friends.
Vally & the glutton.
Reading more, I do think it’s possibly steroid related.
With milk thistle, I don’t think I can use capsules as the dose may go to high. I’m currently using a liquid milk thistle (but it’s actually in alcohol – maybe that’s not a good idea – although he only gets 4 drops a day). I may change to a tablet.
Can anyone help with the dosage – I hate working these out as I’m scared I’ll overdose or underdose. Tablets are milk thistle extract 100mg – adult take 1 tablet 3 times daily. So by Dr Dodds, Bingo should take 20% of an adult does, so I work out ROUGHLY half a tablet twice a day???
Sheena, Bingo wouldn’t admit it but he is very wimpy in the hind leg department. I normally give him the yellow of an egg every third day. Now I know the white of the egg has more protein, so I’ll cook the whole egg and give it to him more often.
Vally
Sheena, this is the rest of them. I can’t see an AST or a CK reference:
ALB – 37 (22-39)
ALKP – 121 (23-212)
ALT – 229 (10-100) – HIGH
AMYL – 498 (500-1500) – LOW
UREA – 6 (2.5-9.6)
Ca – 2.45 (1.98-3)
CHOL – 7.67 (2.84-8.26)
CREA – 32 (44-159) – LOW
GCT – 4 (0-7)
GLOB – 38 (25-45)
GLU – 5.79 (3.89-7.95)
LIPA – 657 (200-1800)
PHOS – 1.96 (0.81-2.2)
TBIL – 18 (0-15) (HIGH) – I misread this as the TP being high so I didn’t mention before.
TP – 75 (52-82)
ALB/GLOB – 1
BUN/CREA 43
Note he wasn’t fasted.
I haven’t included the ProCyte Data which all fell into the normal range, or the Chemistry Data (IVT) which was practically normal too.
When I asked his vet about the result and whether it was the likely the effect of the prednisone, he said no. That the test which would show the prednisone effect came out normal – I’m not sure which test result that would have been. That’s why I’m a bit more concerned.
Love Vally & Bingo
Good article Sheena.
Yes Joe, it sounds like this is all part of the normal treatment. That approximately 1 month after the treatment to kill the heartworms, the dog returns to hospital for treament for the baby heartworms. Hopefully this is what it is.
How is Nauset acting? Very very best of luck.
Praying for you all.
Love Vally & Bingo.
Thanks all. I didn’t go to the local vets yesterday. I though I’d rather speak to the specialist first, especially bearing in mind the seizure 5 weeks ago (nothing since on that thank goodness). I rang this morning and he’s on leave this week (aint it always the way!). So I’ve left a message for one of the other specialists that knows Bingo to ring me. As Bingo is due to see his specialist next Monday, I may just check it’s okay to delay things until I see him first and maybe have the teeth dealt with after that.
It’s certainly not affecting his eating and he doesn’t show any tenderness. I’m just more nervous in giving him hard items – his favourite treat is dried chicken necks which are pretty hard – he’ll dance for these. I might use a nut cracker on them before giving them to him just so he doesn’t have to do the initial break through them.
Worry worry worry worry.
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