Lucygoo updates/Lucygoo has passed

Hi guys..

That's interesting. I never knew that about the pred and thyroid. I've been giving her the pred in the morning only, and the thyroid she gets 12 hours apart. Hmmmm. Thanks, Shelba:)

There's definitely something wrong still, because she's not eating at all. She only ate a couple milk bones when i got home today, and won't touch anything else. She's only drinking a little water, which is also odd for her. I'm hoping that it's just an upset stomach and she's trying to clear her system. I think I'll give her another pepcid with her thyroid pill...she's supposed to have that with food.

Alison...Lucy weighs about 55 lbs now I'm guessing. That's what her last weight was about a month ago...she may even be a little heavier now. She was originally on coritsone, and when we went down to 2.5 he switched it to prednisone. So now she's on 3.75, which I give her in the morning. I'm wondering if she doesn't need 5 mg., maybe split up in two doses? That would certainly be easier than quartering a 5 mg pill. I'm going to e-mail Dr. B now about her continued not eating...I'm sure he'll be thrilled to hear from me....again! lol

Thanks again, guys..

Gina and Lucy

You can get 1mg pred pills - and they probably come even smaller than that - which you'd probably find very useful for the purpose of tweaking doses.

Alison

Hi all...

Just a quick note to let you know that Lucy ended up eating some rice and a couple milk bones last night. This morning she got up acting like a puppy:eek:
Dr. Bruyette told me it was definitely not caused by the thyroid meds, so I feel better about that.
I'll see how she eats this morning.

Thanks again,
Gina and Lucy

Good news, Gina! So glad to hear that Lucy has eaten some and is acting better! :D:D:D

Hugs,
Leslie and the girls

That is great news Gina, thanks so much for letting us know...was getting worried about sweet Lucygoo and her not eating and not acting herself. Hopefully she has regained her appetite. Is she drinking water now too?

Love and hugs.
Lori

Thanks Leslie and Lori...

Yes, she's eating and drinking water normally. Her appetite is still a tad off, but I'm not pushing it.

The thing about the thyroid made me think of another time when i thought I killed her. When Lucy was on trilostane, I accidentally one day more than doubled her dose. Called the vet in a panic, and she told me not to worry, she'd be fine. And indeed she was. It had absolutely no effect on her. She said they were treating a little scotty with trilo, and the owners were double-dosing him for a full month, without any adverse effect. Just to be sure, though, we stopped the trilo for 2 days, and she went into full-blown cushings again.

Thinking back now, a lot of the symptoms that Lucy had that I was blaming on just getting old or the trilostane, I'm pretty sure now they were symptoms of an enlarging macro. Even in the beginning of her diagnosis she had some pretty odd behavior sometimes. Just thinking out loud.

Thanks everyone,
Gina and Lucy

Hi Gina
haven't been here lately but was wondering how your dog is going?
bye Mienke (snoopy)

Hi Mienke!

Thanks for checking on us. Lucy's doing okay. We just increased her prednisone to 5 mg/day today. She was on 3.75 mg, but for the past couple days her appetite decreased, she started walking like an old lady more, increased weakness in her hind legs, and last night was acting really lethargic. Still haven't seen much change in the appetite yet, but hopefully that will change.

How's Snoopy doing? :)

Hi Gina,

Here's hoping the extra pred. will do the trick for Lucy, so sorry she's been having some issues. :(

Please keep us updated, and how are things with you?

Love and hugs.
Lori

Hi Gina
Sorry to hear about Lucy . I haven't got any experience with the prednisone but do hope it will do its work.
Is she eating nothing at all? even some meat isn't doing the trick?
Snoopy is doing fine ..getting older (almost 10) and having a bit of trouble with the warm weather now and then (dehydrated)
In the morning she's very energetic while the afternoons are sleepingtime.
At the moment we're waiting for the last blood and urine testresults (will take a week I guess) because its a year after the operation and hopefully the tumor hasn't come back!
Take care with Lucy and hopefully she'll response to the medication
Bye Mienke:)