Comments on: FDA approves new option for treating dogs with Cushing’s http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2009/01/07/fda-approves-new-option-for-treating-dogs-with-cushings/ The Web blog of the Pet Connection, a pet-care feature syndicated internationally by Universal Press. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:46:46 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Christopher http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2009/01/07/fda-approves-new-option-for-treating-dogs-with-cushings/comment-page-1/#comment-390839 Christopher Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:27:04 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/?p=4805#comment-390839 My Bonnie Belle died of Cushings. And despite being the ripe old age of 14, at 13 she was as vibrant as a much younger dog. The surgical treatment options are unpleasant and unsatisfactory and so is the chemical killing of the adrenals as it's incredibly expensive (requires bloodwork after every dose to tell how much you've killed) and you may kill too much giving your dog an equally troubling condition. Like many Cushings dogs, Bonnie likely had the tumor in her pituitary gland in her brain instead of on her adrenals as she had seizures near the end. So it's not just an adrenal disorder, it's more often a pituitary disorder which works through the adrenals... and since killing the adrenals is easier than operating on the pituitary, that's the treatment route. My Bonnie Belle died of Cushings. And despite being the ripe old age of 14, at 13 she was as vibrant as a much younger dog. The surgical treatment options are unpleasant and unsatisfactory and so is the chemical killing of the adrenals as it’s incredibly expensive (requires bloodwork after every dose to tell how much you’ve killed) and you may kill too much giving your dog an equally troubling condition.

Like many Cushings dogs, Bonnie likely had the tumor in her pituitary gland in her brain instead of on her adrenals as she had seizures near the end. So it’s not just an adrenal disorder, it’s more often a pituitary disorder which works through the adrenals… and since killing the adrenals is easier than operating on the pituitary, that’s the treatment route.

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