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04-04-2008, 08:22 PM | #1 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Il
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| University of Illinois vet????? Hello, My 8 year old yorkie has finally been diagnosed with cushings disease after tyring to get 5 local vets to make the diagnosis. I finally took him to University of Illinois in Champaign. The vet there made the diagnosis, but I am not satisfied with his knowledge of the disease process. Does anyone have a vet at the U of I that they use and are happy with? I have to take him back after loading him on the drug Lysodren, and I just want to find a vet that I have confidence in. thanks Tuffys mom |
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04-05-2008, 02:34 PM | #2 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Stuart, Florida
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| I'm sorry you are going through this. I hope you find someone you trust and who can help! Good luck
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04-05-2008, 02:43 PM | #3 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Central Iowa
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| You may want to look in Iowa State Vet Med College. There are great doctors there and it's near Des Moines. A few others may have better advice, but it's somewhat close to Il. Good luck.
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04-05-2008, 06:03 PM | #4 |
Donating YT 30K Club Member | Sorry I don't know any. My 11 year old Pom was finally diagnosed a year ago with Cushings after misdiagnosed as Thyroid disease. I was taking her to a dermatologist specialist who treeated Cushings. We tried loading with Lysodern and she never loaded so the vet kept changing the amt and timing of it. I finally got tired of Maya getting worse so I took her to an internal Med specialist who determined that the lysodern had put Maya in to liver failure and we had to stop treating her Cushings and try and get her liver better. After 4 months on meds her liver had imoroved. I have taken her off all meds as they were making her quality of life terrible and she is much better. She still has the Cushing's symptoms but they are livable at this time. So my advice would be to make sure you are working with someone who has treated lots of Cushings dogs. There is a Cushings forum I joined but there is not a lot of response and it gets pretty technical. I know from that site that many of their dogs did really well on Lysodern so I hope you have good results.
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04-21-2008, 07:54 PM | #5 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Illinois
Posts: 52
| We had a horse that lived with cushings for many years. The only syntoms that she had was never shedding her heavy winter coat off. We would clip her every summer. She live to a ripe ole age of 32 with it,. Our vet didn't recommend any kinds of meds for her at all. |
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