the 'roids make him constantly ravenously hungry and thirsty and they also make him pee more than normal. It is surreal to watch him pee for longer than I've ever seen him pee before and then ONE HOUR LATER he does it again. Where is it coming from??
We have gotten very deft at giving him tons of pills in little balls of sick wet chicken. Turns out wet food is a real godsend.
Yesterday he watched a movie with us like old times, crammed on the tiny couch between us with his head under the blanket, for the first time in 9 or 10 days. It was amazing. I love seeing him every day. I hope he doesn't have a life-ending genetic disorder.
Ok. He's been on steroids for 1.5 weeks now and he's been great, although they told us that no matter what, he'd respond to the steroids. We've started tapering him off them now, though, and this is the pudding where the proof shall be found. Everyone (all the vets) believes that as we taper him off the drug, his symptoms are going to come back, which means he has an autoimmune disease called "polyarthritis" that he will probably have for his whole life, which will entail him being on some sort of medication forever, which sucks and is terrible but which we have decided not to stress about. If he's on pills forever, oh well, we love him and if his quality of life is fine then fuck it. If that 90 year old badass in the NYRB can spend $400,000 getting his life saved then we can give our dog a goddamn pill every day.
If his symptoms DON'T return (this option is too glorious to consider; I am only expecting option 1) then this whole thing was just a weird fluke probably brought on by ComboGuard poisoning.
Actually even if it IS a lifelong disorder it STILL could've been caused by ComboGuard poisoning, which is horrible, to think you gave your dog something that ruined his life. Fuck ComboGuard/Trifexis, none of you should EVER, EVER give it to your dog, ever.
Yeah, we were saddened by this same realization, that the drug-pushing pharmaceutical lobby has now infiltrated vet care. Gary goes "I thought this was only supposed to happen to PEOPLE."
I remain pretty convinced that whatever this all turns out to be, it was triggered by the Comboguard. The 15 hours of heinous barfing...it's like it just wiped him out and made a space for this other shit to creep in (<---scientific)
Snoop is officially 5 days drug free now, and my friend who is a vet says she is comfortable declaring him "out of the woods," although she says we need to always keep an eye out for a return of the stiffness.
KNOCK ON WOOD
Thank you for all your prayers. Every day I am so nervous to get up and see how he is, and every day that he is normal I am so glad that I slap his butt as hard as I can
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the 'roids make him constantly ravenously hungry and thirsty and they also make him pee more than normal. It is surreal to watch him pee for longer than I've ever seen him pee before and then ONE HOUR LATER he does it again. Where is it coming from??
We have gotten very deft at giving him tons of pills in little balls of sick wet chicken. Turns out wet food is a real godsend.
Yesterday he watched a movie with us like old times, crammed on the tiny couch between us with his head under the blanket, for the first time in 9 or 10 days. It was amazing. I love seeing him every day. I hope he doesn't have a life-ending genetic disorder.
If his symptoms DON'T return (this option is too glorious to consider; I am only expecting option 1) then this whole thing was just a weird fluke probably brought on by ComboGuard poisoning.
Actually even if it IS a lifelong disorder it STILL could've been caused by ComboGuard poisoning, which is horrible, to think you gave your dog something that ruined his life. Fuck ComboGuard/Trifexis, none of you should EVER, EVER give it to your dog, ever.
> even if it IS a lifelong disorder it STILL could've been caused by ComboGuard poisoning
That was my thought too, since the other possibility makes the vet look a lot better. I guess lax Rx testing by a regulator in the pockets of the industry it is regulating isn't only limited to human drugs. http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20140121/NEWS/301219972/clinical-evidence-in-fda-drug-approvals-varies-widely-study-finds
I remain pretty convinced that whatever this all turns out to be, it was triggered by the Comboguard. The 15 hours of heinous barfing...it's like it just wiped him out and made a space for this other shit to creep in (<---scientific)
I will let you know if his symptoms do or do not return, which we should know soon???
UGH
Poor birdie
Snoop is officially 5 days drug free now, and my friend who is a vet says she is comfortable declaring him "out of the woods," although she says we need to always keep an eye out for a return of the stiffness.
KNOCK ON WOOD
Thank you for all your prayers. Every day I am so nervous to get up and see how he is, and every day that he is normal I am so glad that I slap his butt as hard as I can