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Misty is on 5mg of prednisone every 12 hours. She is also taking cyclosporine every 12 hours. The doctor at Cornell told us, if we start the cyclosporine, than we would be able to get Misty weaned down faster on the prednisone. Misty is still having lots of problems with constant drinking and...

Misty was on 10mg, every 12 hours. We were having so many problems with the excessive peeing and than her having incontienance, talked to the doctor last night. She lowered the night time dose to 5 mg and still the 10mg in the morning. Hoping that it helps! They did mention about...

The vet feels, after the MRI and bloodwork, that it is also an Auto Immune Response, and the inflammation in the brain is causing her seizures. My girl is having a horrible time with the steroid. Her excessive drinking and peeing is insane. Every hour or sooner, pretty much round the clock...

Just found this thread. Our girl, a little of 3 1/2 years old just got diagnosed with and auto immune disease, possibly meningitis. She had some very long seizures, and after an ER vet and regular vet, took her to Cornell. We had an MRI done, and it showed brain inflammation. Also a spinal...

Jasmine had a really good summer. She had two teeth extracted a couple of weeks ago. They had her on an antibiotic for the teeth, and than she starts with some bloody urine again. Other than the blood in the urine, she is acting fine. Eating well, blood work came back good before the dental...

Jasmine's biopsy came back from the bladder growth. Not good news, it is transitional cell carcinoma. The tumor was on a stalk and was about 1/2" x 3/4" and was near the top of the bladder, unusual place for tcc. The vet removed the tumor, and the margins came back clean. We are starting...

Jasmine's surgery Jasmine had bladder surgery on this past Wednesday. They sent it out for pathology. Back in a week or so. It was in the upper part of the bladder and on a thin stalk. It was an easy removal. She is recouping fine, except she is leaking urine when she lays down. She has...

The size of her growth is about 1/2" x 3/4". We're just very hopeful that it's just a polyp, but no way to tell without a biopsy. We take her in a for a consult on Monday, to see what the other vet thinks.

Jasmine our 10 1/2 year old, had an ultrasound yesterday. She's been having blood in her urine, without an infection. They found a mass in the head of the bladder. Not sure how big it is as the final report isn't back. But they said it has characteristics of cancer, but also of a polyp. So...

Just read this thread. Mandy will be 14 in 3 weeks. She has arthritis and is stiff legged in her back legs when she walks. She doesn't climb the stairs,we carry her. She would go down the stairs but her legs have given out when she has went down them. So thankful that she didn't get hurt...

Anybody have any suggestions for a harness or something to help our 13 1/2 year old Mandy go up and down 12 steps. We have her on pain medicine for arthritis, but some times her back legs will give out when she's going down the stairs. Other than that she's does pretty well. I just don't want...

Jasmine was put on Proin for a few days because of leaking. She started drinking like a fish. She's been off the proin for 3 days, and is still compulsively drinking. We've had the senior blood panel, urine analysis, and the specific gravity and everything is fine. We have been picking up...

Anybody know of a natural alternative to Proin for urine leaking. The vet tried 9 1/2 year old on it, and she started excessively drinking water. The vet told us to stop the proin. Now trying to find something natural that will help with the leaking. She had the senior blood panel and...

Update on Jasmine on Proin Just talked to the vet, she said to stop the Proin. She has heard of problems in some dogs taking it and having excessive drinking. It should take 48 hours to get out of her system. If it isn't better by Friday, to give her a call and go from there.

The vet said she would call in a week to 10 days to see if it was working. If I remember with our other sheltie, it did take a couple of weeks to work fully. Than hopefully we can cut down some. She just leaked all over the couch tonight. We have our other sheltie cut down to one 25mg every...