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It's quite worrying really - maybe I'm doing the wrong thing not giving the dose the vet said but poor Cairo was sitting bolt upright in his bed last night, eyes wide open, looking totally wired - and that was on half the dose the vet said, so goodness knows what' he'd have been like on the full dose.
We'll continue to keep an eye on him and fingers crossed for Friday.
Just checking in on Cairo. Hope he is doing better each day. Are you tapering him off the pred? Did Dr. Peterson answer you? Blessings
Patti
How is Cairo today Alison
Dr Peterson didn't reply :( I'll try again - nothing like stalking somebody.
He seems to be not bad though he was a bit slow on his walk tonight. Mind you, I had been shopping and just took him straight out and told him no running cos I had 3 inch heels on - so not sure if he didn't fancy me falling over on him or if he was just not in the mood. He seems alert enough but he was content just to stroll up the road, snuffling in the grass.
Vet's tomorrow.
We've not started to taper him yet as I'm not sure how quick to do it for him - plus he's not been on the dose they said as I felt it was far too much. He wouldn't be able to sleep if I'd given him that big dose.
Fingers crossed for your vet visit tomorrow
Hi Alison
My dog has been on prednisone recently, admittedly for a different reason. He was on it for allergies which were out of hand. He weighs 13.5kg, his dose was 5mg twice a day for a 5 days, the 5mg once a day for 5 days, then 5mg every 2nd day for three doses. We did get him off it quick as it played havoc with his liver numbers that he had tested while on it his ALP shot up to 4000+. This dose may well be different to a dog in Cairo's situation so don't go by that, just showing you how my vet weaned it down.
Good effort walking Cairo in 3 inch heels! I'm impressed :)
It wasn't easy! Admittedly, they were platforms so you could take a bit off the height but I must've looked ridiculous, mincing along!!
That's useful to know for the weaning down - it gives me something to compare what the vet says tomorrow. My gran takes pred for an inflammatory condition and I know how I wean her down if she's had to increase her dose but I'm guessing it's not the same with the dogs because with her, the lower she gets to her maintenance dose, I go to 2.5mg and then 1mg tablets.
I'm hoping his bloods tomorrow are good. I can't believe how anxious I am about it!
One other bit of info, my vet also told me that when he discusses prednisone doses with his clients who are also nurses (like me) they freak out (also like me :D) at how high they are compared with people. He said dogs bodies are different in the way they metabolise prednisone and hence often need more than what we think when compared to human doses. :)
Ahh, you see I freaked out at the vet wanting him on 20mg pred a day - that's a massive dose as far as I'm concerned but nobody explained what your vet explained. They just said that the pred woudn't cause him to be hyper - which is a lot of hooey because it does and he is!!
Flynn did not go hyper on it at all, he acted fine and I was real happy it sorted out his allergies so fast and this is after trying a ton of different foods, creams, showers etc so it was a kinda last resort. But not liking the liver numbers going sky high. Apparently happens a lot and we are testing again soon to make sure they come down. He also has IBD and his IMS recommended treating that with pred if it got out of control. Recommendation for the IBD treatment was 1mg/kg twice a day initially, so that would be quite a big dose. Hopefully we do not have to go there. So these doses of pred can change depending on what they are treating them for, I think the experts here have a record for what the rescue dose should be for addisons dogs though, maybe someone has mentioned that earlier in your thread and I have not read back far enough! But I think if my dog was hyper and sitting up in bed in the middle of the night with his eyes wide open would freak me out!!! You do what you gotta do :) Good luck at the vets today and I will be looking for the update later!