Julie, I don't believe I have posted to you before, but I have certainly been following Hannah's story. I do want to caution you about letting Hannah do much racing around like a "wild woman". Our pups seem to be very prone to cruciate ligament injuries in their knees. Whether this is due to the muscle wasting from Cushing's, I don't know. To show you, my 1st Cushpup, Barkley, ruptured a cruciate ligament simply chasing a toy that I was throwing for him through the house. I threw the toy up to the kitchen, B goes tearing up there, & has a bit of a slip on the linoleum. Bamn!! He comes up lame. He had to go to surgery to repair this injury, & the abnormal pre-op labwork is what put us on the road to a Cushing's diagnosis.

My Lhasa was given tramadol when he ruptured his cruciate a year ago, simply by jumping off the bed. I gave him the dose suggested by the ER clinic that night. I swear, it was like Chewy was "stoned", on drugs, or something, he was so out of it. Chewy is not a Cushing's boy, so I can't blame the ACL rupture on Cushing's with Chew.

Debbie