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Hello Everyone! I have not been on in ages, but decided to ask everyone their opinion on troubles I am having with my yorkie lexie. She is one year old and having terrible allergy problems. When we first got her she broke out with rashes we stopped giving her Royal Canin and the rashes went away. She had no issues for a while. Now for the past few months she is consistently itching, scratching her ears, and biting her paws. We went to 4 vets, and each had their own opinions. The first said she had no fleas, we gave her front line and we saw the actual fleas running from her body. Then our doctor put her on a hypoallergenic dog food diet for an estimated 6 weeks, and it did not help. We switched now to Natures Best herring flavor kibble, because this is a flavor she has not eaten before. Now daily she scratches and bites, her body is covered in rashes and wounds she created by biting so hard. We have probably spent $500 or so, but no results. Also we bath her in special shampoo the vet gave, we tried dawn, we tried strict diets nothing is working. The doctor gave her medicine(small dose steroids) and she stopped itching. As soon as we stopped the medicine she continued itching. Now she is only taking a multi vitamin the doctor gave. The doctor recommends doing a allergy test which is $300, and which I wish I did in the beginning Should I do this test and find what the problem is? Maybe it is something in the environment or she is just an allergy dog. Your advice and insights are greatly appreciated. I apologize for the long post, but this is still a condensed version of what I could have written.