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

Update! They are so worth it for outside in the snow and salt. Once I convinced Molly that I had not in fact cut her feet off from her legs and that they still worked it was easy peasy. She was going lickty split down the sidewalk, through the snow, peeing and pooping where ever she wanted with no problems what so ever. She even discovered that she can run and jump, still do the back kick after a potty and the world is still her oyster.

Marianne, it's worth getting a size that will fit around the ankles. The body around the paw is a bit loose but around the ankle fits perfectly and I just pulled them off when I came in the house.

One thing I did notice is that when they are wet and you come in, get them off right away as they WILL go sliding on the tile or wood floors when the booties are wet.

SUCCESS is wonderful!

hugs all and Thank you!

Marianne I forgot I was going to tell you I saw a lab today in them, they were green.

Pics or video please. I'm sure they will be much cuter then what I'm imagining.

I'm with Judi! LOL, my visual is waaay too funny!

Well I got a picture. Gives new meaning to the phrase "paws up" LOL

http://www.k9cushings.com/forum/albu...pictureid=7387

She doesn't seem to mind them once I get them on her now. Once you know your feet are still there and work the same, and your paws won't freeze when you go outside, it's a whole different story I guess.

Thank you so much for sharing that photo Sharlene! It is absolutely adorable!:p Every time "paws up" is mentioned, i'm going to see that picture of our little muffin.:p:p

It's hilarious! Some mentioned condoms and now I cannot get the thought out my mind! haha... red is her colour though and any photo of Molly is adorable and so so pleased they are keeping her little pretty paws protected! x

For the first time ever, I notice that molly now shivers when at rest, or standing or sitting, just shivers an awful lot and her hair while still growing, is getting thin. Maybe she is feeling the cold as her hair seems thinner, but she shouldn't be shivering in the house with the heat on and hasn't been outside for hours.

It's like with her cortisol lower she now shows symptoms she never did before.
She is to have an ACTH test next week. We haven't increased her dosage at all as I wanted to see if it would continue to come down even after 30 days.

I must say, I don't like this. No attitude change, but other things and particularly the new shivering are concerning to me.

She'll have a cbc done the week of the Jan 26.

Oh pooh, I don't like the shivering either! I know we've had a lot of shivering episodes reported here through the years, and darned if we could just make better sense of them. I've repeated this many times, but my Barkis started having shivers (or tremors as I started calling them because it was obvious he was not cold) shortly before he was diagnosed with Cushing's. They got dramatically worse after he started on trilostane, but then stopped entirely after 2-3 months on the drug. Such a puzzle we could never figure out.

Sharlene, remind us of Molly's most recent ACTH. It is possible that these new problems (hair thinning, shivers) are related to the treatment. But the reverse is also possible, at least with the thinning coat -- that her cortisol is still hanging up there high enough that she is finally exhibiting a standard external Cush symptom.

It is just very hard to know. But I understand why all of this is upsetting, regardless of cause. The tremoring always really bothered me (actually, far more than it bothered Barkis because he basically ignored it!).

Marianne, here are our last few test results.

ACTH Oct 17, 2014

Pre 74 nmol 2.68ug
1hr 858 nmol 31.09ug
2hr 1024 nmol 37.11ug

ACTH Nov 07, 2014

Pre 102 nmol 3.69ug
1hr 582 nmol 21.09ug
2 hr 608 nmol 22.03ug

ACTH Nov 26, 2014

Pre < 27.6 nmol 1.003ug
4 hr 339 nmol 12.28 ug
8 hr 408 nmol 14.78 ug

I elected to Not increase the trilostane at that point and wait to do a test in January to see where she is at. My specialist was away over the holidays and it seemed smarter to just not do anything and see where it went, plus I didn't want an increase with that low pre cortisol reading. It did as they tell us it can, continue to decrease at the 30 day testing. I'm worried that it has continued to decrease. What is very strange is that the pre would be so low with the posts still being high, but then molly has always been the abnormal case study for cushings.