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Originally Posted by dwerten  i think op needs to get to a speciality hospital with neuro and internist as stated before. I am not sure if they even did bats on this dog as does not sound like it.
To answer your question no i do not think it will change the treatment but I think the more info the neuro has the better to quickly diagnose and due to age sounds like vaccinations were done which could trigger gme with these symptoms.
My guess is they think it is neurological only since they gave prednisone as they would not prescribe that for a dog with liver disease.
I think they need to do mri and spinal tap if they think this is neurological but sometimes they start with steroids like i believe they did with rorie and the dog relapses if steroids stop working and they have to go to stronger drugs such as chemo along with steroids and the goal is to get them into remission within one year.
DD has not had parvo distemper since she was six months and being immune suppressed will not do it and her titers have been fine for over 5 years as i do them yearly. She never got the one year booster and so glad i did not do it after all this I am reading since she has autoimmune disease having allergies and hypothyroid. As you know the scare with the plumber and all mine are fine so i am sure they were exposed to parvo. I agree they need puppy shots and one year booster but if a dog is immune compromised after puppy shots i would re-think the one year booster and glad i did now since gme runs in yorkie and maltese breed mostly due to poor immune system due to poor breeding. |
Roriee was never properly diagnosed and someone guessed what she had and started steroids. I do not believe that this is the way things are normally done. The steroids did not stop working...she was tapered off of them and then she relapsed.
I do not think there is enough suspicion and/or proof that vaccines cause GME and would hesitate myself to frighten people about it. Vaccines are extremely important...if people stop them out of fear, we are going to see even more pups dying of parvo and distemper!
Do you happen to know the percentage of yorkies that are being diagnosed with GME?