Anastasiia
08-08-2018, 09:57 AM
Hi everyone!
We are really lucky to find you. My buddy Oscar has been diagnosed with cushings disease a few days ago on Cyprus. Our vet back to Ukraine was suggesting to start the treatment nearly half a year before, but we won't do that until we are completely sure.
We first felt him unwell nearly a year and a half before. After making a few tests, the vet said Oscar had a diabetes, which was really unexpected. Frankly speaking, we would argue the diagnosis for a few weeks, as injecting insulin for the whole life seemed really frightening. After his glucose level reached 20 we started insulin injections. Now his dosage is 3.5 mg twice a day, but glucose level stays between 13 and 20/22 points. It stays the same despite us increasing or decreasing the dosage.
The high amount of glucose in his blood made our vet complete some other tests, that showed that Oscar also has hypothereosis. We started to give him Euthyrox 75 twice a day before a meal. At fist glucose started to decrease slightly, but after a week it came back to the same level.
Ukrainian vet suggested us to make a test to see if Oscar has cushings disease and it showed positive half a year ago, but he was quite stressed in the clinic and also didn't show any specific visible symptoms (except of diabetes ones, like drinking and urinating a lot), so we decided to retake a test. A few days ago we received the results from IDEXX laboratory. This time instead of taking his blood at vets, we collected his urine for three days in a row and sent it frozen to the laboratory by DHL from Cyprus. The test showed positive again (I've attached the scan copy of the investigation results and latest blood test).
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nzOPabXXKT2kMwrUrW3_RG6O_-wD_GQ0/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EFTOKsU3q6ZFp7mxYiOT1hxWbINt3Wx_/view?usp=sharing
So after such a long message (sorry for that) my question is, should we start Vetyrol (the recommended dosage of our vet is 10mg once a day, Oscar is 4 kg)? We are hesitating, cause Oscar still doesn't have a lot of visible symptoms. His fur is mostly OK, the only place, where it won't grow after shaving for ultrasound, is his tummy (but still there is a small amount of undercoat fur). Well, during the recent months his tummy became bigger, especially it can be noticed for a few hours after a meal. And he also have black marks under the fur. Anyway, his fur grows well.
We are really frightened by all the side effects of Vetyrol, and as Oscar is now quite stable, compared to one year ago when we notice diabetes, he has a good (even very good) appetite and quite enjoys his life, we can assume, that the disease is progressing slowly. Won't we do worse by starting Vetyrol? We are really worried.
We are really lucky to find you. My buddy Oscar has been diagnosed with cushings disease a few days ago on Cyprus. Our vet back to Ukraine was suggesting to start the treatment nearly half a year before, but we won't do that until we are completely sure.
We first felt him unwell nearly a year and a half before. After making a few tests, the vet said Oscar had a diabetes, which was really unexpected. Frankly speaking, we would argue the diagnosis for a few weeks, as injecting insulin for the whole life seemed really frightening. After his glucose level reached 20 we started insulin injections. Now his dosage is 3.5 mg twice a day, but glucose level stays between 13 and 20/22 points. It stays the same despite us increasing or decreasing the dosage.
The high amount of glucose in his blood made our vet complete some other tests, that showed that Oscar also has hypothereosis. We started to give him Euthyrox 75 twice a day before a meal. At fist glucose started to decrease slightly, but after a week it came back to the same level.
Ukrainian vet suggested us to make a test to see if Oscar has cushings disease and it showed positive half a year ago, but he was quite stressed in the clinic and also didn't show any specific visible symptoms (except of diabetes ones, like drinking and urinating a lot), so we decided to retake a test. A few days ago we received the results from IDEXX laboratory. This time instead of taking his blood at vets, we collected his urine for three days in a row and sent it frozen to the laboratory by DHL from Cyprus. The test showed positive again (I've attached the scan copy of the investigation results and latest blood test).
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nzOPabXXKT2kMwrUrW3_RG6O_-wD_GQ0/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EFTOKsU3q6ZFp7mxYiOT1hxWbINt3Wx_/view?usp=sharing
So after such a long message (sorry for that) my question is, should we start Vetyrol (the recommended dosage of our vet is 10mg once a day, Oscar is 4 kg)? We are hesitating, cause Oscar still doesn't have a lot of visible symptoms. His fur is mostly OK, the only place, where it won't grow after shaving for ultrasound, is his tummy (but still there is a small amount of undercoat fur). Well, during the recent months his tummy became bigger, especially it can be noticed for a few hours after a meal. And he also have black marks under the fur. Anyway, his fur grows well.
We are really frightened by all the side effects of Vetyrol, and as Oscar is now quite stable, compared to one year ago when we notice diabetes, he has a good (even very good) appetite and quite enjoys his life, we can assume, that the disease is progressing slowly. Won't we do worse by starting Vetyrol? We are really worried.