Lacy had cushing's - the symptoms I noticed were excessive eating, drinking, urinating. Hair thinning and lightening, skin darkening. She did have weight gain, but she was putting down enormous quantities of food. Pot belly appearance because the muscles in the stomach and hind quarters are weakened. Test to diagnose consists of taking blood, giving injection and then retesting blood, (takes about 4 hours and was about $150.00), medicine available to help (kind of expensive and requires blood tests monthly to monitor), no cure for disease.
I have hypothyroid or low thyroid. Most are overweight, but a good percentage are not (I weighed less than 100 pounds when diagnosed). Dry skin, dry hair, tired, don't eat very much, but gain weight (in some), intolerance to cold, you are shivering when everyone else is fine in shorts! Very ease to diagnose and treat. Medicine is cheap so once you get the right dosage the treatment although lifelong will not break your bank. |