Today is the second day that Mati is on prednisone. For breakfast she ate about 1/8 cup of softened dog food (mixture of Royal Canine low fat and Purina One Natural Blends). She was interested in eating the liverwurst that hides her medications but not as interested as she has been in the past. She had her medications at 9:30am. At 1pm she was given 1.5mg of prednisone and ate 1/4 cup of softened dog food (mixture of Royal Canine low fat and Purina One Natural Blends). Then she had a good drink of water. Hmmm thinking about water I should probably start measuring the amount she is drinking. She went for a walk at 2pm for just a couple houses and did 1 and 2. Some of the results came back from the blood work she had yesterday. Everything was normal except:
potassium level elevated at 6.1 mmol/L (sodium level is normal at 147 mmol/L)
BUN elevated at 65 mg/dL
alkaline phosphatase elevated at 586 U/L (this is down from 1366 U/L on 2/14/2008)
ALT is back to normal and has not been normal for 8 months. I believe that the ALKP and ALT are both down due to her cortisol levels being down. The cortisol test is still pending and hopefully results will be in by tomorrow.
At 5pm Mati went for a 1/4 mile walk. Then when she got home she had a 1/4 cup of softened dog food (1/8 cup royal canine low fat and 1/8 cup purina one Natural Blends). Then she had a big drink of water.
Tonight I did some research and it appears that addisons is often seen with increase in BUN and potassium and a decrease in sodium. It looks to me like this is in line with what Mati is seeing and what everyone is expecting with SRS on the pituitary gland.
Mati had her heartworm medication tonight along with her other medications.
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