Quote Originally Posted by Woodydog View Post

I have a question for you lovely people, Woodys colitis is still ongoing but I'm not sure that it is colitis. His poo is firm, of good texture (sorry if your eating) I only get jelly like ones maybe twice a week usually during the night, he squats really low to the ground which he didn't do before the operation, and he takes ages to actually go and when he does it's small but lots of it then he tries again to go and you can see his abdominal muscle and leg muscles are all tensed up and he looks like he is holding his breath. Any ideas as this has been going on since September and does wipe him out sometimes. He does take meds for it and when I took him off them he did get blood in his poo would it take this long to sort out
I wonder if Woody is having some constipation issues going on?

Quote Originally Posted by Woodydog View Post
Well I,ve had the vet on the phone, woody,s cortisol/creatine level has shown up high, it read "cortisol level is higher than it should be in a normal dog, pointing towards cushings, now I did ask Craig the numbers but couldn,t hear him as little naughty woody was back chatting me at the time.
Any kind of health problem and even stress can cause the UC:CR to be elevated, and since Woody is having some sort of GI issue this could of caused the high number on the UC:CR.

Hugs, Lori