Sounds like a good report, that's such great news, happy for you and Miss Molly.......:)
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Sounds like a good report, that's such great news, happy for you and Miss Molly.......:)
Thanks Letti and Patty and Barbara, I'm pretty happy. I'm never truly happy though till I can do a full comparison on the lab results with the previous ones. OCD maybe. :) I guess when it comes down to it, I may not be a number chaser, but definitely am a numbers person.
You're right Barbara, I'll never live down giving her that horrid tooth treat. If you could have seen her expression of disdain when she just spit it out and looked at it and then at me like, "really mom, this is what you give me after no breakfast and them taking my blood, really?" LOL
Now little miss has the dirtiest face in Canada. I don't know what she does, puts her whole face in the food bowl and then in the water bowl I think. Ugh. I usually just clean with water, but this needs soap I think, and I don't want to get any in her eyes. Well, guess we all know what I'll be doing later on tonight.
Maybe I just need to bring her in and get her groomed.
Hubby and I are getting ready to take her out for an early evening walk. That should get her settled down for the evening.
Sharlene and Molly muffin
Hi Sharlene
Yay all considered that is a great report.. YAY!! Just thought I would mention about fluid intake and sodium, usually if they have real low sodium we RESTRICT fluids, as sometimes excess water makes it go even lower because when all the water is moving through the body (tissues/blood) it can wash out even more salt and make the problem worse. There are lots of causes for low sodium though and I think if it is only marginally down then it could just be a normal fluctuation and nothing too much to worry about!
So pleased to read the improvement in ALP, thats a win! :D xxx
Sharlene:
Glad to hear your Molly got a good report! Just keep em coming the same way! Blessings
Patti
Trish, once I have a copy of the results, I'll know how low it is. So not dehydration. I was thinking that could throw the electrolytes off, but I hadn't googled or looked it up. Of course, now I have and yikes. I hope it isn't off too much. I think I will ask for the last urinalysis copy too. Might be worth having the kidneys looked at if it is too much out of normal range. I want to look over everything on that report.
This mornings walk she wasn't very energetic at all but she did have that long walk last night and might not have been all that interested in walking very far this morning.
Thanks Patti, we'll try to keep things moving along in a positive manner. :)
hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin
Great news Sharlene! Sodium aside, it sounds very positive indeed, especially the ALKP! Great progress.
I have to wonder about this place sometimes though, we seem obsessed momentarily with hair growth, nipples and bowel movements. No wonder the muggles think we are weird :D
Maybe last night's walk was enuff for lil Miss Molly. I know sometimes I try to read something into Peety's change in routine, when really it's nothing more than "I don't wanna, so there". She is such a cute lil cuddle bug. When Peety and I walk, I try to do a brain dump before leaving so that nothing interferes with his time. And "no rushing", please. I have to remind myself that he is in the house all day and he needs to reconnect with all the new smells and identify who has been out there that he missed. And even if he goes poop in the first block, we still have to walk the whole route, because he has to be the last one to leave the "mark". Then he can go home and think about all his lil buds that will be coming by. Such is a dogs life.
Glad Molly is better. Give her a big tummy rub from me. Hugs from me and Peety.
Yay for the very positive test results! That alp is down to a nice 3 digit number and that must feel good!! Anything special you were giving or feeding to get a drop of 300?
Hope Molly continues to drop those liver values!!
Rain moving this way tomorrow so here we go again with the torrential downpours. Trixie will be hiding out...it's either under the kitchen table or my daughter's bathroom. :D
Hope Molly's got her energy back up now! Trixie was like that yesterday, a bit tired and less energetic. I probably wouldn't fret over a less than peppy day if it weren't for this stinking disease! Now I question every little thing. :confused:
Happy to hear about the good numbers!! :D
Barbara
Yep, Molly has her energy back this evenings walk. She was either just stiff or not ready for much of a walk this morning. Either way, I'll take it.
I'm just giving the hepato support supplement and her glucosomine. She has been on the hepato since 08/20/2012. So it's taking a while to get to this point. So, here are the numbers, now that I am back from picking up the lab results. I'll copy in the old labs too because really who wants to go back looking for them.
Ultrasound July 2012:
Liver: mildly enlarged, diffusely hyperechoic and margins rounded
gall bladder: moderate amount of echogenic debris present
stomach: moderate gas
left kidney: hyperechoic speckling in the cortex and mild derease in corticomedullary definition
left adrenal gland: mildly enlarged with caudal pole larger than the cranial pole
Urinary bladder wall: mildly thickened at the apex, although lumen is not fully distended.
Mucosa: mildly hyperchoic and irregular and two small calculi present
right kidney: similar in apperearance to the left kidney - small non obstructive calculi present
right adrenal gland: upper reference of size to mildly enlarged
lymph nodes: mildly enlarged
Test Histories:
ALT - 54 (10 - 118) May 2010
ALP - 518 (20 - 150) May 2010
Albumin 46.7 (26 - 44) April 2011
Protein 78 (51 - 72) April 2011
ALT - 110 (6 - 118) April 2011
ALP - 764 (5 - 141) April 2011
DEXA (LDDS) May 2011
Cortisol (Base) 82.2 (20 - 300)nmol 2.97ug
Cortisol (DEXA) - 4 hours 28.7nmol 1.04ug
Cortisol (DEXA) - 8 hours 35.1 nmol 1.27ug
Albumin 44.1 (26 - 44) (barely out of range) March 2012
Protein 76 (51 - 72) March 2012
ALT - 139 (6 - 118) March 2012
ALP - 1121 (5 - 141)
ALT - 152 (6 - 118) June 2012
ALP - 1003 (5 - 141) June 2012
ACTH (2 draws - this is due to the agent used by the vet) June 2012
Cor1 - Cortisol (base) 172 (30 - 300) 6.23 ug
Cor 21 - Cortisol (ACTH) - 1 hour 924 33.49 ug
Cor 22 - Cortisol (ACTH) - 2 hour 1014 36.75 ug
Lab states, that in a normal animal Cortisol will increase above 250 but not above 600.
The results are consistent with Cushings Disease; Pituitary-Dependent Hyperadrenocorticism
Albumin 46.8 (26 - 44) August 2012
Protein 74 (51 - 72)
ALT - 144 (6 - 118) August 2012
ALP - 1054 (5 - 141) August 2012
LDDS - August 2012
Cor1 - Cortisol (base) 30 - 300 range nmol/L 2.86 ug
Cor34 - Cortisol - 4hrs < 27.59 nmol < 1 ug
Cor38 - Cortisol - 8hrs <27.59 nmol < 1ug
and finally Urine gravity 1.038 August 2012
LDDS - December 2012
Cortisol Base 87.2 nmol (30 - 300) 3.16 ug
Cortisol 4 hr <27.59 < 1 ug
Cortisol 8 hr <27.59 < 1 ug
not cushings
Throid Mini Profile - all within normal ranges December 2012
Albumin 47.3 (26 - 44) - December 2012
Protein 73 (51 - 72) - December 2012
ALT 125 (6 - 118) - December 2012
ALP 1229 (5 - 141) - December 2012
Cholesterol 10.39 (2.50 - 9.90) - December 2012 (I was told to ignore this due to possible sm amount food in the AM)
Urinalysis all normal, no crystals
gravity - 1.035 (clear, dark yellow, concentrated) - December 2012
ALT 132 (6 - 118) - June 2013
ALP 918 (5 - 141) - June 2013
Sodium 143 (144 - 162)- June 2013
Urinalys specific gravity in May was 1.020 which is more dilute than it was.
Hazy, Leukocytes Ca 70 leu/ul, WBC 3 - 5/hpf (1+), Bacteria 2 - 5/hpf (1+) cocci
So, probably not a clean sample, she did have some blood in her urine, but we cultured and nothing grew.
That was from when she had her accident in the house and I thought it smelt strong. She had some very small bladder stones that the IMS thought she would pass eventually and wasn't large enough to block anything. I am thinking now that she might have passed one of those to cause the blood in her urine. Nothing since then as far as accidents in the house or strong odor either.
Her albumin, protein and cholesterol are all back in normal range. I looked carefully and nothing is close to too high or too low on any other result, other than the sodium this time and since it's just a point low, I'm not super concerned, unless it shows that it is trending downward when we test again in August. Her Potassium is fine as is her Na/K ratio, so nothing worrisome there.
Her ALP is remarkably down, her ALT is up but it seems to be bouncing around for whatever reason. It is not alarmingly high either, so so vet said not to worry about it at this point. It goes up, it comes down, goes up, seems to just bounce.
Rechecked previous tests and sodium has never been out of normal range before.
I'm happy. :) I will say that I think the hepato support is working better now, that I've figured out how to get her to take the whole pill instead of sprinkling on her food, like I was before. It just feels to me like it is working better anyway.
So now that I've written another whole chapter in the book. :)
hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin (onward to august!)
Hi Sharlene,
I'm glad that the queen bee was ready for her walk this evening!:D You can breathe a sigh of relief now that you've compared the test results.;) It looks like little Miss muffin is in pretty good shape thanks to her mama!:D Give her Majesty a belly rub for me!
Hugs,
Kathy