Hi, we have a 19mth old toller who was diagnosed with Addisons, in April last year. Approximately 3 weeks ago he had a blood test as we were concerned that his florinef levels may need adjusting and it came back that they needed to be upped to five 0.1mg tablets a day(had previously been on four). A follow up blood test was done earlier this week.
I have taken him into the vets this morning as he has been having mild tremors, was off his food and was very stiff on his back legs. Heart rate normal, temperature a little high. He has dropped 2kg (previously 16.4kg - has always been a slight build) since last weigh in also but exercise and feeding amounts have not changed.
We saw a vet who hasn't dealt with him before (there is a core of vets at the practise who deal with him regularly and have done since diagnosis). She mentioned that the blood tests were back and that level of florinef would need to be upped (6 x 0.1mg per day), i questioned this so soon after they had last gone up and she said not to up the medication today and to bring him back tomorrow to see how he was getting on. I asked whether she thought the tremors were crisis related and her response was ' i hope not' and that she thought they could be related to the high temperature.
I plan to attend the main branch of the surgery later on today if tremors continue so he can be seen by a vet with previous knowledge of him.
Is this level of medication the norm? Am i right to worry that symptoms described above could be crisis related?
As a sidenote, he is also on a third of a mestinon tablet per day following a diagnosis of Myasthenia Gravis in May this year.
I have taken him into the vets this morning as he has been having mild tremors, was off his food and was very stiff on his back legs. Heart rate normal, temperature a little high. He has dropped 2kg (previously 16.4kg - has always been a slight build) since last weigh in also but exercise and feeding amounts have not changed.
We saw a vet who hasn't dealt with him before (there is a core of vets at the practise who deal with him regularly and have done since diagnosis). She mentioned that the blood tests were back and that level of florinef would need to be upped (6 x 0.1mg per day), i questioned this so soon after they had last gone up and she said not to up the medication today and to bring him back tomorrow to see how he was getting on. I asked whether she thought the tremors were crisis related and her response was ' i hope not' and that she thought they could be related to the high temperature.
I plan to attend the main branch of the surgery later on today if tremors continue so he can be seen by a vet with previous knowledge of him.
Is this level of medication the norm? Am i right to worry that symptoms described above could be crisis related?
As a sidenote, he is also on a third of a mestinon tablet per day following a diagnosis of Myasthenia Gravis in May this year.