Hi Wayne,   
      
   On Mon 2039-Apr-18 14:53, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140) wrote to RICHARD WEBB:   
      
      
    RW> This time, we're treating more aggressivly:  PRednizone   
    RW> (spelling) and Doxycycline (spelling) the doxy ends this   
    RW> week, we cut back the dosage on the steroid.   
      
    RW> HE says if this doesn't seem to do the trick then we're in   
    RW> for some complex diagnostic stuff, which will mean sedating   
    RW> her etc.   
      
      
   WC> I kept my Pit Bull going some three years afer he'd otherwise have   
   WC> had to have been put down on dexamethasone.   
      
   WC> Of course I limited the dosage to 1/2 what the vet recommended as   
   WC> there's downsides to steroid use and 1/2 seemed to do the trick   
   WC> right up to where the end was inevitable and there was no putting it   
   WC> off.    
      
   WC> So I had a non neutered Pit Bull on steroids and still he was the   
   WC> sweetest tempered, most trustworthy and most gregarious dog I've   
   WC> ever  known.   
      
   Wouldn't doubt it, all in how they're raised and treated.   
   I'm hoping this steroid regimen seems to solve the problem   
   for quite awhile.  WE get her over this I'm just going to   
   have to find more opportunities for her to get good exercise too, that'll help   
   maybe.   
   Strengthening can't hurt.   
      
   That later ws on the agenda for this spring/summer anyway,   
   but now this.   
      
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
   --- timEd 1.10.y2k+   
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