Hi everyone!
My 15 year old Maltese Maggie was diagnosed via the LDDS test yesterday. Numbers were
5.3 (1-6 ug/dL)
2.1
3.7
IM specialist started her on 5 mg vetoryl twice daily. She’s about 4kg Does this sound ok? Vet will NOT compound due to potential variances in bioavailability. She’s being rechecked in 14 days and I believe will follow the standard re check protocol in the US.
Maggie’s symptoms mainly are back leg muscle weekness that has gotten progressively worse. She also has consistently elevated cholesterol and alk phosphatase. Her tail hair is also very thinned out. She doesn’t really drink excessively (only about 1 cup water per day). No consistent potty accidents. A few but more my fault!
I noticed her back legs trembling about 3 yrs ago but all her vets attributed it to arthritis. When I thought she started drinking more (but not excessively) excessively panting and just generally not being able to rest I suggested cushings. Still none of our local vets thought it was! Most recently when her back legs began to give out I saw the IM specialist at one of the largest hospitals in NYC and he took one look at her and said I agree! FINALLY!
Most recently her
Cholesterol is 515. (92-324 mg/dL)(goes up every time we test)
Alk phosphatase is 368 (5-131 iu/l) (also increasing)
Before testing we tried flax lignans and melatonin but I don’t think it had any effect.
Any overall thoughts? Recommendations?
EVERYONE’s input and advice is welcome and appreciated. I’m just so terrified of all this!!