Good luck tomorrow and I hope the stim goes well, at least I think it is tomorrow, geez I must need a nap:o
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Good luck tomorrow and I hope the stim goes well, at least I think it is tomorrow, geez I must need a nap:o
Good luck from me as well!!
Hmmmm.... I wonder if our little muffin will be wound up like the energizer bunny this time after her Stim test. With your kind of support for team Molly, it can't help but go well. xxxxoooo
Ok...so that is what Kaibo's vet used to base Kaibo's dosage on I guess. He is 5.3kg and she started him on 2.5 mg twice a day, so 5mg total. This slow process is going to remind me of treating the diabetes I think! Hoping for good results tomorrow. Well, today...I'm typing this at 1am...yikes! Time totally got away from me. Night!
Yep, we are into the ACTH Buzz alright. She'll drive me nuts for the next 48 hours at least.
I picked up some veggie treats on the way home.
I also picked up the orange Paws, as the red ones I'd start to lose one or two booties each walk. They stretch out I guess and then slip off. So, I'm trying to next size smaller down. We shall see how that goes.
So, toay, her electrolytes are good, her renal panel is good, her calcium is in normal range still, so that is all good. Hopefully the UPC and Urinalysis will come back good too. ACTH results should be back tomorrow.
We (the IMS and myself) both think Molly's hair is getting thinner. :( So, that may be due to the cortisol. We're trying to bring it down slowly, so hopefully this increase will knock us down some more. She is looking for molly's post to be right under 5 ug.
Molly has lost about 1/2 kg though in weight. So, not sure if that is a scale abnormality or what. We'll see if she is the same weight at the next appt. If not, then we'll have to look into running a CBC to see if there is something going on. She doesn't Feel any lighter and she isn't in a bad weight zone for her, just one of those things that you go, hmmm, about. She has been known to fluctuate, so I'm not going to worry yet.
So, tomorrow we see how she is doing on cortisol. Today, I try deal with a bouncing, demanding diva.
OHHHH I almost forgot, repeated BP monitoring today showed her consistently in the 130 - 160 range, with One spike over 200. They aren't sure what caused that or if it was the machine. They used two different ones and both she was fairly consistent on except for that one time. So this is VERY good.
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Sharlene--I know you're disappointed about Molly's thinning hair but, overall, it sounds like a pretty good visit. Great news about her blood pressure!
If you can catch the bouncing Molly, give her big hug from us!
I bet she has more hair than Kaibo ;). Sounds like a good report overall. Hmmmm. I wonder what's in store for me after Kaibo's ACTH!?
Wonderful news on the BP! :cool::cool::cool: Looks like ya'll have a good plan in place that is bringing positive results. What we all want for our Molly and Mom!
Yea I'm really pleased with the BP results. Hoping that the UPC results are good too. Last time via one of the vets it was 1.0 so cross fingers that this one as good or lower even.
I'm not totally worried about the thinning hair as I know it is part of the disease and that the cortisol has to come down and that even then, the hair has to go through it's cycles and it could take many many months till it comes back, if it does. We'll see. That's why we have coats for the winter right. :)
She isn't bothered by it so that is good. It is the undercoat that is showing the most change. Her outside coat, is still growing long and she'll be a ragamuffin in no time I'm sure. What doesn't grow as fast now is the length of her ear hair. It does grow but at a shorter rate. I wish I could say the same of her feet. They are thick and grow long in no time, making it pretty hard to get those booties on sometimes and getting them to stay on. LOL
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So the cortisol is coming down a bit, not there yet though.
ACTH 20 Feb 2015
Base 166 nmol
1 hr 339 nmol
2 hr 389 nmol
So we'll retest in a month on the 11mg trilostane
That was the good part. Now for the not so good.
The UPC came up to 2.4 :( We are increasing her Benazipril to 7.5mg am and pm. That is the max for her weight that we can go to. Doing this means we have to watch her BP that it doesn't drop too low. (so test that in a week) and keep an eye on kidney and potassium. (retest that in about a week too) different vets for those two items. Her potassium is currently 4.7 which is within the normal range. If it goes to 6.0 we have to be concerned, if it goes to over 6.5 we have to intervene.
If none of this works on the next UPC, which will be at the time of the next ACTH test, then we'll have to add in yet another medication. Gads!!!
That is where we are. She is concentrating at 1022. but we really want her to be less concentrated, actually below 1020. due to the stones.
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