I am sorry to hear that. My pom was diagnosed with Cushing's after being misdiagnosed for 6 months with a thyroid problem.She lived almost 3 years from the start of it. Her symptoms were excessive thirst and hunger, a lot of hair loss, sores that woudn't heal and panting. Since I am home ost of the time, the excessive peeing wasn't a big problem as she was always good about letting me know she had to go outside.I had all the testing done by a specialist and we started treatment with Lysodren sp? and it is a very toxic drug, unfortunately it made her so sick and she developed liver disease so we had to stop the cushing's treatment and concentrate on the liver which improved, She then got congestive heart failure but did well on her heart medicine. About 4 motnhs ago we started her on anipryl to help some of the cushing's symptoms and her doggy alzheimers and she did well on that but unfortunately her heart gave out last month and she went to the Rainbow bridge. I know a lot of dogs have been successfully treated for cushing's just make sure you have a vet who is very familiar with the treatment. The testing is pretty expensive as well as the medicine and followup just to give you a heads up. I do think Maya had bad days and good days but I never felt she was in pain, it was more the feeling of always being hungry and thirsty and the itching from her skin issues. I hope your baby doesn't have it but they can live for years with it. |