Re: Skippy, 12 y/o Yorkie with likely pituitary tumor (Trilostane)
Hi Carole,
First of all, you absolutely need to feed Skippy a full meal when you give him his Vetoryl. This includes the day of the ACTH test. You also want to be consistent about the timing of the test, so you can compare apples to apples so to speak. Do you know how many hours after you gave Skippy his Vetoryl they started each of the tests?
Shana
Originally Posted by
Carole Alexander
After nearly two months, Skippy's cortisol on the 1/23 stim test was higher than the two week stim test (pre 2.2 and post 10.8), i.e., pre - 6.3 and post - 16.
Originally Posted by
Carole Alexander
The final thing: Skippy's high numbers on the last test on 1/23 (pre - 6.3 & post -16) may be incorrect since Purdue told me to fast him for the test. I challenged that and they said to just feed him enough to ingest the Vectoryl. I fed him a little more than that because I didn't know any better. But, now I wonder if the drug was absorbed?
Mama to Jackson and Kira, and my darling Cushing's angel, Visuddha