Our female dog, Penny, is around 9 years old, 44 lbs and a rescue. Speculation is Shepard, Sharpei and Heeler and probably some other things mixed in. She has had some small, hard bumps under her skin and several have been removed and biopsied as benign over the last two years.

Over the past 6-8 months she has begun showing vague symptoms including panting and lack of energy. More recently, she drinks and urinates excessively and has the beginnings of a potbelly although her weight has fluctuated a bit. Right now she is down a couple pounds. She had a complete blood work up a couple months ago and all was normal except extremely high triglycerides. Blood sugar was normal. So the vet changed her to a higher fiber diet. Recent six weeks or so, she is always hungry. Unless we limit her, she will drink until she throws up.

So I took her back to the vet and they did a urine test to screen for Cushings. A week later the results came back as normal (???) so after more discussion we decided last week to do the ACTH stim test anyway. The results came back yesterday as positive for Cushings.

The vet wants to do an abdominal ultrasound tomorrow morning and has mentioned the drug trilostane over the phone.

So right now I am researching and researching and want to be prepared for the vet appointment in the morning.

Thanks to the knowledgable folks I found here earlier today, one thing I know I should do is get copies of all her test results.

Sorry about the late-in-the-day posting. We are in Hawaii. There aren't many veterinary specialists here as the Big Island is very rural. I think we are seeing the most knowledgable (and only accredited) vet here.

I would appreciate any and all advice on questions to be sure to ask, other tests, etc.
Mahalo,
Nancy