Zoe By My Side- Our Journey with Cushings

I'm glad to hear Addy is starting to feel better! :)

Hi Addy,

Glad to hear Zoe is a bit better this morning! :):cool:

Remember that the dropping cortisol can make them feel pretty bad until the body adjusts to having less of it. I'm betting you are right and you are just seeing some withdrawal right now.

Keep up the good work!

Hugs,
Leslie and the gang

Thanks Leslie,

We also think her hearing is going so I have to factor that behavior in to the equation. It seems more pronouned the last week or two; before it was subtle things she did made me wonder. I did not think about it too hard as goodness knows she used to fall into such a deep sleep when we first got her, she did not even hear me come in the house sometimes.:rolleyes:

But the last couple weeks, I don't think she can compensate anymore. I will have IMS check her ears next week. She does not paw at them or shake her head. She has never had an ear infection since we have had her.

Hubby is distraught. I think it may be just one ear. I will do some more simple tests tonight.

Hugs,
addy

I bet you just wish you could have a week or even a day you do not have to worry about something. I hope she is just having selective hearing and it will get better--maybe there is a build up of something and it is fixable...:o

I am glad she is feeling somewhat better today--Yay!!!

Oh, and the gray hairs....isn't that what coloring is for....:D Of course who has time to take care of it.....I need a fix and hopefully it will be this week.

Take care!!;) Best thoughts for you always!!

What do we know about hearing loss and Cushings? So far all I have found is the possibility the pituitary tumor is a macro and that could lead to hearing loss.

Hugs,
Addy

Hi my dear friend.

I don't know about hearng loss wth cushings, but Corky lost his hearing quite awhile ago. I noticed it when he was diagnosed with cushings, but he's also had numerous ear infections.

I hope Zoe is doing better. Give my niece lots of belly rubs from me.

Hi Addy,
I don't know anything about Cushing's and hearing loss, but I feel like Hannah's has gotten significantly worse in the last couple of months. She did have a couple of ear infections about 3 & 4 months ago, which I did treat with Tresaderm, so I don't know if that has something to do with it or not. She is old too, but it seems like it got worse fairly quickly. I'm going to cross my fingers it's not because of a macro tumor...

Julie & Hannah

Hi Love,

This has been a question I have repeated since last December with no answers.

Snoops sufered sudden facial nerve paralasis with sudden deafness and could not blink her left eye and still cannot properly which lead to her eye surgery! The left side of her face drooped and food fell from the left side as she chewed. The left side of her face is still droopy and she sleeps with the left eye open and has dry eye issues.

I quesioned if it was a bulid up of ammonia in the blood, stroke, macro, you name it and can't get an answer. I checked out the ear infection possibility, twice, and nothing there but a foxtail once...no infection.

She is stone deaf now. Intermittented rapid twitching at the apex of her ear on the effected ear, left side.

I wish I had the answer too as to what is happening so I can ward off or prevent but, I can only speculate and worry.

Love You,
Rene & Snoopie
(Super Adrenal Cousins)

Julie, I did not mean to scare you. We think Zoe is nine years old so that seemed young to me for hearing loss. Maybe it is not young for hearing loss or maybe they estimated her age wrong and she is older than we think.;);););) I used to joke when we first adopted Zoe that she was five going on nine when someone asked her age:D:D

Terri, thank you for your input. It just threw me because I did not expect that at this stage of the game. Threw me a curve ball.:eek:

Super adrenal cousin Renee;);):cool: I knew what happened to Snoops and I knew her UTK panel was sky high like Zoe's which is why I started digging for an answer to a possible connection.

I also rechecked metronidazole. All I could find was that it may cause ringing in the ears in humans but it was unknown if it was toxic to the ears as some of the other antibiotics are. The only other med she takes is the Vetoryl. I wonder about the metronidazole. I have a call in to the vet.

Thank you all for your input. I had a mini meltdown yesterday cause hubby was so upset.:(:(:(:( So then I got all upset. Not so much about her losing her hearing but more about fearing the unknown and why it happened. Maybe she is older than we think, my Zoes.

Hugs,
Addy

Hi Addy, I don't have any answers for you about the hearing loss but I wanted to say that I think that my Nika may be a bit older then I was told, when we rescued her. She was in bad shape so she was smaller, and so the age guess did make sense at the time. Maybe it is the cushings that has been ageing my Nika the last year?, I don't know. So hard to tell when we rescue. What bothers me most is that it means I just might not have as much time with her as I originally thought/hoped :(sorry, I am babbling :o
I hope you get some answers from the vet today about your Zoe.Oh how we worry about our babies.
Many hugs coming to you and your Zoe,
Lynda and Nika