Molly, 13 yr, shih tzu - lhasa aspo - Molly has passed

Good Mornin' Sharlene! ;)

Just read elsewhere that Molly started her trilo on Sunday and all is good. YAY!!! :) :)

All fingers and paws crossed that things continue to go well and that the medication will be a help to her.

Thanks Marianne. Yes Sunday we started 8mg daily given in the morning.
We based it on the UDavis 1mg/1kg ratio. I think with Molly we just watch and make sure she continues the same and go from there. See what the test shows at 2 weeks.

Hugs all

Hi Sharlene - I've been silent on your thread, but following along. Sure hope the girl continues doing well on the trilo. :)

Yep, our fingers and paws are crossed for good results on trilo.

Hope everything goes as planned, Sharlene. I'm sure it will be fine.:)

I know it will be a relief for you to see that cortisol dropping in 2 weeks. Surely it will help her overall health. I'm glad shes tolerating the medicine. Have you changed her food yet and if so, how is she liking it?

No we didn't change her food at this point. The SO food has about the same protein/phosphorus as the moderate protein, so we opted to do one thing at a time and I felt the trilostane was the most important to get introduced.

Molly is her normal self and feeling pretty good overall if this afternoon is anything to go by. It's been rainy here this afternoon and rather than go to the door for her walkies, she was running all over the house, avoiding the door when I said, lets go walkies. Finally she ran for the door, leaping over a pair of shoes in her way and skidded to the door. Tail wagging when she got there. So if it has lowered the cortisol at all, she still feels okay and that is what I want. I'm not looking to go to low, with the way her back legs and back are, I think she'd be in pain if we did or at least feel those hurts more than she use to. I don't want that.

Thanks everyone for checking in on us.

hugs

Love the description of Molly -- she sounds very spunky! :D

I totally agree with only changing one thing at a time - that way you know if something is helping or causing problems.

With Hamish one of the vets was very eager to give him joint pills but I refused a couple of times when she had prescribed other pills because I was worried about interactions - when I got copies of his files you would think I was the worst puppy parent in history for refusing the joint pills :eek: (I did get them, just at a time when he wasn't taking anything else).

Yay Molly! We like spunky Sharlene!