Re: Re: [pyrnet] Re: Ill Pyr

[Oliverslb@aol.com]

I also missed the original message on the pyr with Addisons.
I have a beardie that I rescued three years ago that proved to have Addisons 
a year ago last Easter.  He was in the emergency room five times in a month, 
renal failure, low blood count, etc. I am just so grateful that my vet even 
thought to test for Addisons as I have read that most dogs die before it is 
diagnosed since it masquerades as so many different things also you have to 
test specifically for it.
In July, Oliver started "crashing" as you spoke about.  I was lucky, he spent 
a day at the vet and they put a liter of fluids in him.  Now, he is up to 
eight Florinef a day with 5 mgs of Prednisone.  I really notice a difference 
on the Pred - it makes him much more aggressive - up until Thursday I had 
five males in my home - three of them pyrs - two went up north and a happily 
homed in Vermont and NY and hopefully the stress level will come down a bit - 
I understand that Addisons is very stress-level oriented.
I appreciate knowing about the website and hopefully will learn alot.  We had 
another close call two weeks ago, but not nearly as bad as July.  I am just 
real alert to Oliver and his "down" days - hopefully they are behind us since 
we got our household down to a managable(?) five.
Regards,
Lisa, Belle & Ollie, Chance, Derbs, and Bobo