erincandicez
05-14-2018, 07:19 PM
Hi everyone. Thankful to have read a blog referring this site. It’s been a long weekend for our family dog, my moms dog and companion. I’m typing this out as she naps from a rough weekend of scares. Mitzi, our estimated guess 17 year old Doxie was diagnosed with Cushings a few months ago, though we suspect from the excessive water drinking/urinating and pot belly that she’s has it a while.
My mother takes her dog to Banfield due to the “older dog” pet insurance, I personally am not a fan of anything Banfield but that’s for another post. Her vet recently after tests, started her on 30mg of Vitroyl. She recently had tests done showing cortisol levels had gone down. This weekend my mother called and woke me up panicked as Mitzi was wandering and getting stuck in corners, having accidents and not drinking water, not eating as much (still eating, but she’s normally a vacuum—so this was weird) she has stability issues, weak back legs and fell over easy/couldn’t get her balance. We took her to the emergency vet as Banfield refused her. 😡 and her liver enzymes were up but blood test wise she seemed normal. Erik meandering around and restless, we took her home as the only other option was a neurologist that wasn’t in the office until Monday. Which takes us to today, I woke up again to panicked calls from my mom and skipped work thinking today was the day Mitzi crosses the rainbow bridge. Same symptoms, back legs weak, balance issues and accidents. This time we took her to my vet and he explained dosage issues of vitroyl and that again, would be best to see a neurologist, so we went. He took her off of vitroyl and she’s taking some prednisone. She received a shot before we left and seemed to have put some pep in her step. I don’t know what I’m looking for, maybe some insight from others who have been given vitroyl and of its possible these side effects were a result of being put on it. Her vet was quite young and I don’t think she was in the right (having newly graduated) to be prescribing meds for gland issues....I’ve also read it’s best to start vitroyl 1mg for every 1lb of weight as well, and that the vet may likely not have noticed the drop in cortisol so quickly after prescribing it as a bad thing, and likely these side effects were a result of the drop as this was a very quick random decline, bc when I babysat my fur sister last week, she showed none of these signs.
Basically any insight to assist my mother and ease her mind would be helpful and much appreciated. I’ve convinced her to ditch Banfield as I get her vet did her dues in school and graduated, but I don’t think a vet with a year under their belt should be rightfully prescribing meds without more training in gland issues and that should be referred to a specialist or someone with significant experience. I’m sure she has her test results somewhere if it’ll help, but just wondering what more we can do for our old lady. I’ve read melatonin in the forum, any other suggestions while we’re away from vitroyl and on prednisone right now would be appreciated. Thank you!
My mother takes her dog to Banfield due to the “older dog” pet insurance, I personally am not a fan of anything Banfield but that’s for another post. Her vet recently after tests, started her on 30mg of Vitroyl. She recently had tests done showing cortisol levels had gone down. This weekend my mother called and woke me up panicked as Mitzi was wandering and getting stuck in corners, having accidents and not drinking water, not eating as much (still eating, but she’s normally a vacuum—so this was weird) she has stability issues, weak back legs and fell over easy/couldn’t get her balance. We took her to the emergency vet as Banfield refused her. 😡 and her liver enzymes were up but blood test wise she seemed normal. Erik meandering around and restless, we took her home as the only other option was a neurologist that wasn’t in the office until Monday. Which takes us to today, I woke up again to panicked calls from my mom and skipped work thinking today was the day Mitzi crosses the rainbow bridge. Same symptoms, back legs weak, balance issues and accidents. This time we took her to my vet and he explained dosage issues of vitroyl and that again, would be best to see a neurologist, so we went. He took her off of vitroyl and she’s taking some prednisone. She received a shot before we left and seemed to have put some pep in her step. I don’t know what I’m looking for, maybe some insight from others who have been given vitroyl and of its possible these side effects were a result of being put on it. Her vet was quite young and I don’t think she was in the right (having newly graduated) to be prescribing meds for gland issues....I’ve also read it’s best to start vitroyl 1mg for every 1lb of weight as well, and that the vet may likely not have noticed the drop in cortisol so quickly after prescribing it as a bad thing, and likely these side effects were a result of the drop as this was a very quick random decline, bc when I babysat my fur sister last week, she showed none of these signs.
Basically any insight to assist my mother and ease her mind would be helpful and much appreciated. I’ve convinced her to ditch Banfield as I get her vet did her dues in school and graduated, but I don’t think a vet with a year under their belt should be rightfully prescribing meds without more training in gland issues and that should be referred to a specialist or someone with significant experience. I’m sure she has her test results somewhere if it’ll help, but just wondering what more we can do for our old lady. I’ve read melatonin in the forum, any other suggestions while we’re away from vitroyl and on prednisone right now would be appreciated. Thank you!