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Originally Posted by Gina Hamblin

Country Doc is great! He justs listens to all my crazy questions and suggestions. But.......he is really at the end of his rope with what to do for Finn! He sd. we could go to Knoxville, TN and see a dermatologists and it will be expensive. (Knoxville is about an hour and half away). He sd. with allergies everything is a HIT OR MISS! So it is really up to me to figure this out. We did decide to change flea med. to see if that could be it, we are changing from Prescription Diet z/d to Prescription Diet d/d (duck formula) and he also gave me some spray to put on Finn that MIGHT give him some relief. We are also trying some thyroid medicine. OK, so we will see. THANKS FOR ALLLL YOUR POSTS, I JUST LOVE READING EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM. I will keep trying until something works!

ok time out i have been dealing with allergies for 4 1/2 years -- did he do a 6 panel thyroid to test the thyroid before giving meds ???????? please do not give meds like that unless thyroid is tested and hypothyroid or the dog could go hyperthyroid also do the natural balance venison and sweet potato for 12 weeks - ultra zd made my NON allergy dogs itch like crazy - the ingredients are horrible rice, chicken etc and just because it is hydrolized does not mean the body will not recognize it. Also the dermatologist we go to uses frontline plus only -- we have seen a dermatologist for 3 years now so we can definitely help you on this stuff -- if you have not ruled out hypothyroid have any vet do full cbc panel and do add on for 6 panel thyroid BUT make sure they sent to michigan state lab or dr jean dodds. We work with jean dodds with all our blood work as she is close to us and has studied blood work for 42 years. My dd is hypothyroid but she had a full thyroid panel before taking soloxine and i would never have given her this drug had her thyroid panels not been done. I will help you as well as some others on here that have gone to dermatologists if cost is a factor but you have to do one thing at a time and you can joine allerdog on yahoogroups.com as well to learn more