In case this is helpful information for anyone else, I'd like to share this Sunday November 2 Hundley update: The neurologist called this morning to say that...
Susan, I am saying a prayer for Hundley, poor guy, I hope he continues to hang in there and you hang in there too. Lee Ann ________________________________ ...
Hi my name is Patty And I have a two year old maltese(LillY) A few months ago she would be laying down and then all the sudden she would jump up and start...
Patty, You will get great response from some very knowledgeable people on this list. But I wanted to jump in to reassure you there is hope. Just be calm. I'll ...
Hi Patty, Welcome to you and Lilly. If Lilly has GME, then her being tapered off steroids went much too quickly. Also, as you'll see from Dr. Sisson's paper,...
... Thank you for responding so quickly! My intructions from the pet er and my local vet was as follows.......5 mg twice a day for a month then ...once a day...
Patty, How was her vision before today? If she had good vision and has lost it, I would go back twice a day. Give her the evening dose tonight and keep on ...
... ups.com ... ups.com] ... She was fine until last night.she was sleeping in her bed and i noticed her shaking but i thought maybe she was dreaming...when i...
There is hope for Lily, I am saying prayers for her, it was so hard to watch your video. I remember when Gidget was doing similar things and I thought there...
Hey guys! Patty and I are looking for some dog food recipes. The levels of her cyclosporine test came back high again.. but Dr. Sisson wanted me to do a test...
Patty, My yorkie gidget weighs 4 lbs and just to give you an idea the amount of dosage they put her on it went like this 5mg Pred twice a day -Â 4 days 2.5mg...
Patty, Losing vision is an extremely serious thing and needs to be treated vigorously right now. Don't fiddle around with once a day. You need a strong dose...
Patty, I agree with Alex. In fact if it wasn't for the advice of this group, I might not have pushed my neurologist to follow Dr. Sisson's protocol and go...
Check out dogaware.com. Mary has such a wealth of material, recipes for different ailments (although nothing specifically for GME). Donnette ... -- Donnette...
Okay...i just gave her another dose of the 5 mg she had a dose this morning. When will i see a change in the muscle spasms and shaking? ... pushed my...
Hi Patty, Welcome to the group... but sorry you have to be here. To answer your question, you should see a difference pretty soon... hopefully by tomorrow. My...
Hi Patty, It will probably be a couple of days before your little baby has bounced back. Sometimes a relapse gets a little worse before it gets better. That's...
... I went through the same thing with Kisa when she dropped the prednisone and was on cytarabine and lomustine. She lost so much weight the local vet was ...
Here's a recipe for meatloaf that my dogs LOVE!! http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Doggy-Meatloaf-with-Vegetables/Detail.aspx Take care, Jill ... From: brookedanett...
Brooke, I hadn't heard of that worsening-before-it-gets-better syndrome to the extent you're describing. I can imagine that if there's damage being caused,...
She is no better yet.Im going to take her to my vet tomorrow,but im sure he will not have any know how of what to do.Hes never been any help. My other dog lucy...
Here's his contact information but he's instituted new procedures whereby you really need a vet to work with him unless you're able to travel to Boston. Where...
Patty... Alex is right, don't mess around with this at all right now. Get that pred back up to protect her vision. My little guy was almost blind, went on...
Brooke, I used to cook for my dogs and I used Dr Stombeck's book as a guide. It is nutritionally sound and lists recipes for a varity of medical conditions and...
Patty, I wanted to chime in and tell you that Alex is right. Lilly needs to be on high dose steroids till you can get her on a protocol where you substitute...
All I can tell is for Gidget it took a few days. The other thing that our neurologist did was gave her an IV push of it as a jump start you may want to talk...
Oral steroids take effect with just a few hours, like 1 or 2. So, once you're past that point, there's no reason for an IV push. That means if Lilly's dose...