New to forum... difficult time

[Kevin]

Don't want to get too excited but things are FINALLY giving us some hope. I'm a "HOPE" guy so I tend to get too hopeful but I don't care, I'm going with it...

Cooper seems to be tolerating the 5mg of Vetoryl ok. We're on day 5 now and he is eating well and showing a few signs of having his spirit improve. Water intake is still really high but he slept thru most of the night last night. He hasn't done this in months.
Honestly, our real hope w/ the 5mg was just that he could at least tolerate it. He actually has an ACTH test scheduled in a couple weeks. I learned that when things went bad on his first round of Vetoryl, the Vet didn't even do the test and just wanted to get him off it (the 30mg round and some 10mg dosing). Our only discussion now prior to the ACTH is whether we try to inch him up to a 2nd 5mg pill per day (total of 10mg per day) if clinical signs are not moving along... or just stay at the 5mg and wait for the test.

Thank you! I'm not sure we would have even tried the 5mg had it not been for this site. We had kinda written it off due to the initial trouble. Its WAY early to get too happy but at least there is a glimmer of light now when a week ago there really wasn't any.