Re: Looking for Dr. on East Coast for Pituitary Tumor Removal
FYI - if you are giving the lignans in the hope they will help with Cushing's they won't by themselves. In Atypical Cushing's, in which the cortisol is NORMAL but 2 or more of the intermediates are elevated, a combination of lignans plus melatonin is used to correct the intermediates. It takes at least 4 months for that combination to work...if it is going to. The University of Tennessee in Knoxville (their vet school) has done the research on this form and devised this treatment. My Squirt started off Atypical and we used the combination treatment; it helped her. Just wanted you to know that the lignans alone will have no effect at all on the intermediate hormones or cortisol. The combination does not effect cortisol - only the intermediate hormones involved in Atypical.
I am VERY glad she is doing better! I still would hold off on treatment until she is back on her feet and strong again if she were mine tho. Give her a chance to recoup then look at starting treatment.
Last edited by Squirt's Mom; 09-01-2019 at 04:20 PM.
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