[jbbishop]

Tessa has been sick on and off since I first posted when she was 3 months old. It seems to have always cycled - she would get sick throw up, refuse to eat, shake and stay in bed then I would syringe feed her a/d diet and in several days she would turn around and be her old self and seemingly healthy. Then about every 4 weeks she would do it all over again. This has been for the last 10 months. This time she is very sick and has been for 2 weeks. I am still forcing a/d diet. She is in the bed all day and looks as if she could die at any moment. Although she will get up when we eat and sit under the table. The vet has run a cbc and chemistry on her and says she has ruled out liver shunt because her liver levels are all perfectly normal. Her white count was down a little but they said that was from being so sick. We made an appointment at the specialist for 6/21 and in the meantime our vet called and said she had been doing some research and thought she might have adison's disease and called lab to check her cortisol level. In the meantime I looked up addison's and she had all the same symptoms so we were sure we had finally found it. Well her cortisol came back and it was high not low. They say high shows cushings disease. The problem with this is that she doesn't have signs of cushings disease and this is usually found in older dogs. They say even though she has ll the symptoms of addisons that it cant be ti because of her cortisol level being high. Now they are saying they think it could be a cortisol producing tumor and that it would require alot more tests and an iffy surgery????? Please help has anyone heard of any stories like mine? I want to save my baby but money is becoming an issue at this point. I dont know how much testing/surgery we should put her through.