Rori
03-26-2013, 03:20 PM
Hi - new to the forum. Hazel, Maltipoo, 9 years old, was ill for about 3 months, all wrong diagnosis and meds from doctor to doctor - then she went blind suddenly, and we had a SARDS diagnosis. I immediately (within 24 hours, found Dr. Plechner (just google him)) and in 24 hours she had her vision back. I think the whole thing was started by a "homeopathic" rabies vaccine that I castigate myself for giving her. Dr. Plechner says vaccinations make things worse, but that the cause is genetic.
Recovering vision happens in around 20% of SARDS cases treated with the Plechner protocol (he is SO poo-pooed by other vets, it's hard to know who to listen to...) (read also Caroline Levin), but Hazel also has had some horrible seizure days (2 non-stop clusters in the last 4 months, so we're sort of controlled), and so the diagnosis of brain tumor is hanging over it all - and I won't put her through all that testing and surgery, plus the cost is impossible and the outcome poorly rated - so I'm going with his Plechner Syndrome/SARDS/A-typical Cushings diagnosis, and have her on medrol, thyroid, zomisamide and keppra for seizures - (the pheno did awful things to her personality and liver - these new drugs are great).
According to Plechner, the high cortisol readings, if also accompanied by high ESTROGEN readings (he has a special, simple blood test) - then he says the cortisol reading is false, is falsely elevated by things other than the adrenals, ans shows that the cortisol in their systems is NOT being used (that it's "bound" or genetically unusable because of problems in the "pathways")...and when we started the medrol plus thyroid - it was as though she suddenly "snapped to." (It could also be the cortisone helping a brain tumor...but that diagnosis just doesn't feel right to me...)
His plan is to reduce the ESTROGEN and therefore even it all out.
Hazel has successfully passed through the drinking and eating like a mad dog, peeing everywhere phase (that was so hard...my heart goes out to all dogs who endure that...and us, too..). She is barking again (hadn't barked for 5 months).Walking, running, wanting to chase a ball and play, going out to pee very, very regularly, taking pills 5 times a day, eating homecooked food, and suffering an overwatchful me.
We're settling down and hoping the seizures never happen again.
Do any of you have experience with A-Typical and seizures?
Also - about the snoring - Hazel looks like she has asthma from x-ray seeing a kind of milkiness around the lung area, and before, she was diagnosed with collapsed trachea, though they don't see that now. I always wonder if there's something up her nose, some mass, but they say no to that.
Thank you all....and blessings to you wonderful people and your lovely dogs...
Thank you so much, Rori
Recovering vision happens in around 20% of SARDS cases treated with the Plechner protocol (he is SO poo-pooed by other vets, it's hard to know who to listen to...) (read also Caroline Levin), but Hazel also has had some horrible seizure days (2 non-stop clusters in the last 4 months, so we're sort of controlled), and so the diagnosis of brain tumor is hanging over it all - and I won't put her through all that testing and surgery, plus the cost is impossible and the outcome poorly rated - so I'm going with his Plechner Syndrome/SARDS/A-typical Cushings diagnosis, and have her on medrol, thyroid, zomisamide and keppra for seizures - (the pheno did awful things to her personality and liver - these new drugs are great).
According to Plechner, the high cortisol readings, if also accompanied by high ESTROGEN readings (he has a special, simple blood test) - then he says the cortisol reading is false, is falsely elevated by things other than the adrenals, ans shows that the cortisol in their systems is NOT being used (that it's "bound" or genetically unusable because of problems in the "pathways")...and when we started the medrol plus thyroid - it was as though she suddenly "snapped to." (It could also be the cortisone helping a brain tumor...but that diagnosis just doesn't feel right to me...)
His plan is to reduce the ESTROGEN and therefore even it all out.
Hazel has successfully passed through the drinking and eating like a mad dog, peeing everywhere phase (that was so hard...my heart goes out to all dogs who endure that...and us, too..). She is barking again (hadn't barked for 5 months).Walking, running, wanting to chase a ball and play, going out to pee very, very regularly, taking pills 5 times a day, eating homecooked food, and suffering an overwatchful me.
We're settling down and hoping the seizures never happen again.
Do any of you have experience with A-Typical and seizures?
Also - about the snoring - Hazel looks like she has asthma from x-ray seeing a kind of milkiness around the lung area, and before, she was diagnosed with collapsed trachea, though they don't see that now. I always wonder if there's something up her nose, some mass, but they say no to that.
Thank you all....and blessings to you wonderful people and your lovely dogs...
Thank you so much, Rori