Hi, Hari is a Portuguese Water Dog. Sorry I have not been online for a bit due to nursing duties. That is very bad luck about two dogs having Cushing's despite very good conditions.
Now almost 3 weeks from surgery and he is doing very well as far as healing. His staples are out (there was a very big incision), he has had one reduction in Prednisone but still acting like a dog who is on very high steroid (currently 7.5mg/d and he is about 28 kg). He is completely food obsessed and spends all his time standing in the kitchen looking at the counter as if food will jump off. He is not interested in playing. But he is interested in being petted, eating and drinking, peeing mostly in appropriate places and sleeping reasonably well. He has a benign tumour on his foot that he has bothered and made bleed so he has been with cone (tried everything else) for 3 weeks.
We hoped to postpone surgery on the tumour until he was on a lower dose of prednisone but it is a very fragile vascular tumour (cavernous hemangioma, but not a sarcoma). There is very scant information on these tumours online. The treatment is removal, with low rate of recurrence but given that he is on steroids and it is in a place where closure will be an issue it seems like a no win situation. Poor chance of healing whether he has removal or not.
I asked my vet, who is very good to prescribe Timolol drops to use topically as there are reports that infantile hemangiomas can stop growing and subside with this fairly risk free treatment. It does help it stop bleeding and with the eye of faith might be increasing the tissue growth around the margins.
My vet says there is no way to know if the other adrenal is kicking in.