Trudy
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You won't cure Lyme, you can only treat the symptoms when they pop up.
My vet has Ryan on Derm Caps which is a combo of Omega 3 and 6 - his skin was much better before he started taking it. He's got very very dry and flaky skin. I can't say the Derm Caps led to it, but it sure as heck isn't helping it.
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Jet does this rather often. If her stomach gets so noisy that the neighbors can hear it, I give her a pepto and she's usually good to go with eating again within 6 hours.
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Jet, Ryan and I were a walking meet and greet at the BMW bike dealer in Albany on Saturday. Lots of people came over to talk to me about the dogs.
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Ryan has a lump on his back leg - his showed up a couple of years ago and it was painful for him and was swollen and red and hot. They wanted to do a cone biopsy, I said no thanks. We consider it a hygroma - we think he just whacked his leg and it swelled up and now he just has a lump.
On a daily basis, it isn't causing him pain
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Our "exam" fee is actually just an office visit fee
It is cheaper for us if both are brought in together - not just charged one visit, but charged a discounted rate over 2 visit fees
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Just my advice
Go and buy a bottle of hydrogen peroxide
If this ever happens again, tilt her head back and pour as much down her throat as you can
Everything she's ever eaten in her life will come right back up - including the chocolate
She'll be cranky at you for an hour, but no chocolate issues
Do some searching either here or in general - learn about chocolate and dogs.
I make chocolates. Ryan decided one day that he was going to climb on the table to eat said chocolates one day. All dark.
I didn't worry about it, even the dark chocolate I use, he'd need to eat quite a bit to cause a problem.
Learn about chocolate toxicity and other food toxicities before just going with the make them puke it up route.
Nobody enjoys puking if they don't have to, no reason to make your dog puke if you don't have to.
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And, and, and, and, and, WHY wasn't I told of the possible side effect of seizures in metronidazole????????????
Because you didn't ask and/or didn't look it up on your own before giving it to him. Yes, we hope our vets do the best for our animals, but they aren't perfect.
Don't beat yourself up, just use this as a learning experience - Henry is fine. But in the future, you have a dog on medication that is important to his wellbeing. The onus is on you to be check, with the vet or on your own, that any new medications he takes are not going to interact with what he's already one or have issues for his seizures.
The first question I ask my vet when he gives Ryan a new med is "Can he take this with PB and KBr?" Followed by "Are there any side effects we should be concerned about?" And if I for some reason forget to ask, I look it up before giving it to him or call back when I get home to ask.
There is a drug interaction between Flagyl and PB and seizures are a possible serious side effect.
Before taking metronidazole, tell your doctor if you are allergic to any drugs, or if you have:
* epilepsy or other seizure disorder;
If you have any of these conditions, you may need a dose adjustment or special tests to safely take this medication.
Call your doctor at once if you have any of these serious side effects:
* seizures (convulsions);
Before taking this medication, tell your doctor if you are taking any of the following medicines:
* seizure medication such as phenytoin (Dilantin) or phenobarbital (Luminal, Solfoton);
Personally, I wouldn't up any of his meds at the moment. Get him off the Flagyl and if he needs to be on something, get something different.
And be happy that his increased seizures right now are due to something you can control, not all of us are so lucky on that account.
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None of the AvoDerm is rated here, though.
Not being on the list with a rating means nothing - a bunch of people rated what they used and this list was complied. Not all foods or all varieties will be on it.
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Adams doesn't seem to really work well.
Get something from your vet
The lyme vac isn't 100%, so even if you opt for that, you still need to use prevention.
If the ticks are that bad, check the dog over EVERY time you come in as well and make sure you remove/kill any ticks you find.
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I've been waiting 5 months and haven't heard from him/the team after he requested Ryan's records and my vet faxed them to him. I like and trust my vet and he knows his stuff, so I wasn't too worried about not hearing back from OSU.
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In our case... we have NO IDEA of the cause still after 6 months.
All we know is some medication slowed his protein loss, but he's still losing way too much of it. His levels now are about the best we can expect from him.
His protein/creat ratio was way high (9.0+), now he's down to 6.0+. Still very high. It will never see normal again.
Blood levels are low now, so we changed him down to a lower protein food to help him out a bit - but that won't fix it.
None of his vets that work with us on his issues starting in Sept thought he'd still be around now, so we'll take what issues he has and keep working with them to keep them from being too much of a problem for him to handle
If you haven't had the ratio checked, drop off a urine sample.
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My mom is unable to use frontline or revolution on her dogs. She uses Capstar.
No idea what it is or how to get it, but that's what she uses.
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Julie -
was the ultrasound strong enough to get good images of the liver?
If there are issues with his neck/spine - what are they thinking? Ryan's neuro was adamant he had cancer in his neck. Turns out his neck problems were due to a HUGE clot that went almost the entire length of his neck in a weird area which they saw with an MRI. Nobody saw any cancer. May be worth doing an MRI if it can rule out/in tumors in/on his spine.
Also, if he's got a bleeding ulcer, I'd STOP the pred, put him back on carafate again and start dosing 2x a day with prilosec. The pred isn't going to allow that ulcer to heal up as long as he's still taking it.
Good luck with you and Scooby.
Is Daphne start to go down the same path or does she seem better now?
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I found this on another board today and thought I'd pass it along. Just another thing to look at when trying to figure out a food.
I've fed several of the foods with a 100+ score and either Jet or Ryan or both did not do well on them. Just because it scores well does not mean your dog will do well on it.
But anyway... here it is...
How to grade your dog's food:
Start with a grade of 100:
1) For every listing of "by-product", subtract 10 points
2) For every non-specific animal source ("meat" or "poultry", meat, meal or fat) reference, subtract 10 points
3) If the food contains BHA, BHT, or ethoxyquin, subtract 10 points
4) For every grain "mill run" or non-specific grain source, subtract 5 points
5) If the same grain ingredient is used 2 or more times in the first five ingredients (i.e. "ground brown rice", "brewer’s rice", "rice flour" are all the same grain), subtract 5 points
6) If the protein sources are not meat meal and there are less than 2 meats in the top 3 ingredients, subtract 3 points
7) If it contains any artificial colorants, subtract 3 points
8 ) If it contains ground corn or whole grain corn, subtract 3 points
9) If corn is listed in the top 5 ingredients, subtract 2 more points
10) If the food contains any animal fat other than fish oil, subtract 2 points
11) If lamb is the only animal protein source (unless your dog is allergic to other protein sources), subtract 2 points
12) If it contains soy or soybeans, subtract 2 points
13) If it contains wheat (unless you know that your dog is not allergic to wheat), subtract 2 points
14) If it contains beef (unless you know that your dog is not allergic to beef), subtract 1 point
15) If it contains salt, subtract 1 point
Extra Credit:
1) If any of the meat sources are organic, add 5 points
2) If the food is endorsed by any major breed group or nutritionist, add 5 points
3) If the food is baked not extruded, add 5 points
4) If the food contains probiotics, add 3 points
5) If the food contains fruit, add 3 points
6) If the food contains vegetables (NOT corn or other grains), add 3 points
7) If the animal sources are hormone-free and antibiotic-free, add 2 points
8 ) If the food contains barley, add 2 points
9) If the food contains flax seed oil (not just the seeds), add 2 points
10) If the food contains oats or oatmeal, add 1 point
11) If the food contains sunflower oil, add 1 point
12) For every different specific animal protein source (other than the first one; count "chicken" and "chicken meal" as only one protein source, but "chicken" and "" as 2 different sources), add 1 point
13) If it contains glucosamine and chondroitin, add 1 point
14) If the vegetables have been tested for pesticides and are pesticide-free, add 1 point
94-100+ = A 86-93 = B 78-85 = C 70-77 = D <70 = F
Dog Food scores:
Alpo Prime Cuts / Score 81 C
Artemis Large/Medium Breed Puppy / Score 114 A+
Authority Harvest Baked / Score 116 A+
Authority Harvest Baked Less Active / Score 93 B
Beowulf Back to Basics / Score 101 A+
Bil-Jac Select / Score 68 F
Blackwood 3000 Lamb and Rice / Score 83 C
Blue Buffalo Chicken and Rice / Score 106 A+
Burns Chicken and Brown Rice / Score 107 A+
Canidae / Score 112 A+
Chicken Soup Senior / Score 115 A+
Diamond Maintenance / Score 64 F
Diamond Lamb Meal & Rice / Score 92 B
Diamond Large Breed 60+ Formula / Score 99 A
Diamond Performance / Score 85 C
Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance Ultra Premium / Score 122 A+
Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance Venison and Brown Rice / Score 106 A+
Dick Van Patten's Duck and Potato / Score 106 A+
EaglePack Holistic / Score 102 A+
Eukanuba Adult / Score 81 C
Eukanuba Puppy / Score 79 C
Flint River Senior / Score 101 A+
Foundations / Score 106 A+
Hund-n-Flocken Adult Dog (lamb) by Solid Gold / Score 93 B
Iams Lamb Meal & Rice Formula Premium / Score 73 D
Innova Dog / Score 114 A+
Innova Evo / Score 114 A+
Innova Large Breed Puppy / Score 122 A+
Kirkland Signature Chicken, Rice, and Vegetables / Score 110 A+
Member's Mark Chicken and Rice / Score 84 C
Merrick Wilderness Blend / Score 127 A+
Nature's Recipe / Score 100 A
Nature's Recipe Healthy Skin Venison and Rice / Score 116 A+
Nature's Variety Raw Instinct / Score 122 A+
Nutra Nuggets Super Premium Lamb Meal and Rice / Score 81 C
Nutrience Junior Medium Breed Puppy / Score 101 A+
Nutrisource Lamb and Rice / Score 87 B
Nutro Max Adult / Score 93 B
Nutro Natural Choice Lamb and Rice / Score 98 A
Nutro Natural Choice Large Breed Puppy / Score 87 B
Nutro Natural Choice Puppy Wheat Free / Score 86 B
Nutro Natural Choice Senior / Score 95 A
Nutro Ultra Adult / Score 104 A+
Pet Gold Adult with Lamb & Rice / Score 23 F
Premium Edge Chicken, Rice and Vegetables Adult Dry / Score 109 A+
Pro Nature Puppy / Score 80 C
Pro Plan Sensitive Stomach / Score 94 A
Purina Beneful / Score 17 F
Purina Dog / Score 62 F
Purina Come-n-Get It / Score 16 F
Purina One Large Breed Puppy / Score 62 F
Royal Canin Boxer / Score 103 A+
Royal Canin Bulldog / Score 100 A+
Royal Canin Natural Blend Adult / Score 106 A+
Science Diet Advanced Protein Senior 7+ / Score 63 F
Science Diet for Large Breed Puppies / Score 69 F
Sensible Choice Chicken and Rice / Score 97 A
Solid Gold / Score 99 A
Summit / Score 99 A
Timberwolf Organics Wild & Natural Dry / Score 120 A+
Wellness Super5 Mix Chicken / Score 110 A+
Wolfking Adult Dog (bison) by Solid Gold / Score 97 A
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This is my understanding... once you have a bleeding ulcer from pred, you are no longer a pred candidate.
Ryan is not allowed to ever be put on Pred again since all it took was one dose for him.
Carafate as well as pepcid and prilosec is what he was on for about a month after he had his issues.
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KBr we have to get at the human pharmacy as my vet doesn't carry it. I can get it from him, but he'd just order if from the human place to begin with.
Pb I just get at the vet. I just pay and go so don't know what it is per month, but it isn't expensive at all.
Gabapentin when we have to use it comes from the human pharmacy as well. Neither our vet or the neuro carries it.
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I've always been told heartworm testing every 2 years for dogs dosed year round if doses haven't been missed.
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many times eyes will have pointy backs. Give her a piece of bread which will hopefully hook up with the eye in her belly and help make it an easy transition back out again.
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Ryan is a seizure dog. His seizures are furniture moving, human bruising violent. I look worse after he has them than he does because I've had to catch him as he flies off beds/couches/walls/TVs. He's seized so violently that he had a 27" TV (not the plasmas either) rocking off the solid entertainment stand about to fall on him.
I am usually bruised from catching him, scratched from his flailing about and bruised arms/hands from keeping his head from slamming into walls when he's next to them. I am his cushion and time keeper while he makes it through his seizure. After 4-5 mins of violent seizing, he subsides to a less violent seizure until he's done and jumps up. Then it is keeping him calm enough to get his legs back under him so he can get outside and pee and get some water and a sugary snack.
He comes in, has water and a snack, goes back out again and then is a goofy very awake boy (his are 95% during the wee hours of the morning) for a couple of hours before he's ready to sack out again.
None of the "this stops seizures" tricks has ever worked on him. If Ryan is going to have a seizure, he's going to have the seizure until his body is damn good and ready to stop.
We know stress can be a trigger, but we live life as we would - we just won't leave him in a kennel environment - so vacations happen only when they can come with us or somebody he knows and is comfortable with can watch them. For us, there is no reason to let his disease control our lives, we deal with his seizures as he has them.
He is currently on half the meds he was on about 2 years ago. We decided quality of life was more important than no seizures. A dog needs to be able to stand upright and not walk into walls and seeing some light in his eyes to show he really was alive in there was improtant. I'm not sure we'd up his meds again - though he has been on 3 seizure meds for a time - there was no indication Ryan existed behind the eyes - he was a lost boy when he was totally drugged up.
They were mostly controlled (not gone, but controlled) with meds before he got sick and his body wasn't processing the seizure meds as it should. We still have those issues, so we are back to having seizures more often. We've already had 2 or 3 this year. No reason to change his meds yet, his vet knows what is going on and say these are his normal breakthroughs which are more frequent due to his ongoing medical issues now.
We live with it, so what, he's usually a happy boy, even if his brain is kind of mushy from his meds.
I don't stress over his seizures. It is what it is
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isn't he just on KBr - didn't you stop the Pb? If so, I'd personally go back to the combo. He's had too many recently to not do something with his meds.
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Kia
in Remembrance
I'm so sorry Nancy.
Godspeed Kia.
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I'd say a diagnosis like that without the dog having been seen for a full workup would be like any of us here diagnosing her.
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they better find something... you know how much this is costing me? 299$!!!! I just about fell over!
I'd be quite happy at this point to see a bill from my vet that was only $299.
I get hit up for at least $500 each time I've been in the vet (unless just for meds) in the last 6 months. We are well over $6k and we still do NOT have an answer for what is wrong with Ryan.
He has yet another symptom to add to the list and we'll be at the vet this week anyway for a yearly check up and update shots for our trip to Kodiak.
I totally understand how much the vet bills hurt, but it is much safer to test and figure out what is going on than just throw meds at something you don't know what is.
Bald Patches Redux
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A positive just means she's been exposed.