SugarNSpikes
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Hi guys,
I'm running out of time to save my dog and my vet and I are running out of ideas. I'm hoping someone not involved has some ideas into this 'mystery diagnosis' deal so I can run them by my vet tomorrow and maybe come up with something. He is a 7 year old 70lb neutered basset hound.
He was diagnosed with Addison's disease in April 2013. He was given Percorten and Prednisone. He recovered from this initial crisis and we gave him another shot of Percorten May 22.
At 3am on June 11, he would not eat his breakfast. This is VERY unlike him - he loves his food. He started vomiting and had extreme diarrhea. We thought that he was having another crisis related to Addison's disease. We took him into our vet and they checked his electrolytes, which all came back normal except for the K which was 3.5 (normal but low). They kept him overnight until the evening of the 12th and we brought him home.
The morning of the 13th, things were normal. He drank but refused to eat. We gave him 10mg Prednisone in AM and 10mg in PM in addition to Metronidazole in the AM/PM. I tried everything to get him to eat, he turned his nose up at everything. He also insisted on being alone, and was very restless. We noticed an excessive amount of drool later that night as well.
At around 11pm, we ended up at the Emergency vets. They took his vitals, everything appeared to normal but when they ran his electrolytes, the K was so low, it was at the bottom of the chart. They administered anti vomiting medicine and K via an IV until we could get him to our vet this morning.
Today, at the ER vet, he looked much better than he did but they said he was not responding to any treatment - his K was still not up and he was still vomiting.
We took him to our vet and they immediately got to work on him - he has a high white blood cell count, they did x-rays/ultrasound - no tumors, nothing abnormal or suspicious. They did tests for pancreatitis, that came back negative. They wanted to do a scope and see the whole GI tract but he is too weak and sick to put through something like that. Also, when he vomits, it's whole chunks of food (chicken) like nothing had been digested at all.
Our vet has said that his K is now at 2.8, and if we can get the diarrhea under control, we will be in a better place. He is on Sulcrafate now. All organs appear to be working and there is no damage so far.
I just don't know, we are very much at a loss. Has anyone had similar experiences, ideas? We love our dog very much and it's so hard to see him feeling so sick.
I'm running out of time to save my dog and my vet and I are running out of ideas. I'm hoping someone not involved has some ideas into this 'mystery diagnosis' deal so I can run them by my vet tomorrow and maybe come up with something. He is a 7 year old 70lb neutered basset hound.
He was diagnosed with Addison's disease in April 2013. He was given Percorten and Prednisone. He recovered from this initial crisis and we gave him another shot of Percorten May 22.
At 3am on June 11, he would not eat his breakfast. This is VERY unlike him - he loves his food. He started vomiting and had extreme diarrhea. We thought that he was having another crisis related to Addison's disease. We took him into our vet and they checked his electrolytes, which all came back normal except for the K which was 3.5 (normal but low). They kept him overnight until the evening of the 12th and we brought him home.
The morning of the 13th, things were normal. He drank but refused to eat. We gave him 10mg Prednisone in AM and 10mg in PM in addition to Metronidazole in the AM/PM. I tried everything to get him to eat, he turned his nose up at everything. He also insisted on being alone, and was very restless. We noticed an excessive amount of drool later that night as well.
At around 11pm, we ended up at the Emergency vets. They took his vitals, everything appeared to normal but when they ran his electrolytes, the K was so low, it was at the bottom of the chart. They administered anti vomiting medicine and K via an IV until we could get him to our vet this morning.
Today, at the ER vet, he looked much better than he did but they said he was not responding to any treatment - his K was still not up and he was still vomiting.
We took him to our vet and they immediately got to work on him - he has a high white blood cell count, they did x-rays/ultrasound - no tumors, nothing abnormal or suspicious. They did tests for pancreatitis, that came back negative. They wanted to do a scope and see the whole GI tract but he is too weak and sick to put through something like that. Also, when he vomits, it's whole chunks of food (chicken) like nothing had been digested at all.
Our vet has said that his K is now at 2.8, and if we can get the diarrhea under control, we will be in a better place. He is on Sulcrafate now. All organs appear to be working and there is no damage so far.
I just don't know, we are very much at a loss. Has anyone had similar experiences, ideas? We love our dog very much and it's so hard to see him feeling so sick.
I'm sure by now you've become an instant expert on all thing Addison...have you seen this site?
