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DOTLDaddy
Nomad
Jan 28, 2013

Please put Gretchen on your prayer or good thoughts list.

Gretchen has not been feeling very well the last several days. Hardly eating, lethargic, and just not being herself. We took her in this morning to see her vet. Found out right away she had a fever...
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DOTLDaddy
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Mar 02, 2013
Sigh. :(

We have been struggling with this for over a month now, and a final answer or solution has not been arrived at.

At this point, after seeing our regular vet and three different specialist vets, we have found that, in a nutshell, Gretchen requires a minimum of 20mg. of prednisone daily to keep things under control.

I took Gretchen in for another appointment yesterday with an associate ophthalmologist to the one we saw on March 11th. Now, in addition to the 20mg. of predisone, we are going to be giving Gretchen eyedrops twice daily from two solutions.
  1. prednisolone acetate 1.0%
  2. tacrolimus .03%

The only thing we know "for sure" is that all four vets feel it is some sort of autoimmune thing going on, but we don't know why or what triggered it. Pannus has been ruled out.

Anyway, we go back to the ophthalmologist in two weeks, unless things get worse . . . :p

On edit: I HATE typos!

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