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Has anyone ever had a dog with addisons? Is there anything else similar that my vet may not be thinking of. We are waiting on blood work but I am trying to come up with any answer I can find.

BTT

Come on guys, am I the only one lucky enough to have a dog with this? I know someone must have heard of it. Thanks Tony

I googled "canine addisons disease" and found this: http://www.addisondogs.com/.

picckens, I have been on that site. I have a beagle that is almost 2 and he has just come out of a crisis described in the addisons web site and I was trying to get some information from some one that might have had a dog with similar symptoms. I am trying to come up with another thing it could be. He is very good hound and I pretty much have to either put him down if this happens again you find someone to take him and just keep him as a pet, there is no way he could be trialed if this is what he has. Thanks for the link.

goodpickens thanks for posting that site it has a lot of information on the disease, now it brings me to wonder if many of the dogs diagnosed with kidney disease were incorrectly diagnosed. The treatments that the site listed was very interesting as well. The one thing that really stood out was stress can trigger the disease. I noticed it as well notated alternative medicine for healing. Again thanks for the site.

Tundra, I imagine that many of the people that read your post didn't have a dog diagnosed with this disease and that is why they didn't reply to your post. I know I didn't have any experience with it, but after reading the post by goodpickens and going out to that site I am beginning to wonder if the dogs you hear about with kidney failure actually didn't have kidney failure but Adkins disease. That site did say that many symptoms would point the problem to a different direction and the owner of the dog would only believe what the vet said and not look further into the issue. If the vet is an unconcerned individual only thinking of his pocket and amount of time he wants to spend on a dog he may give you the answer of kidney failure/disease and advise it would be best to put your dog down with out taking the blood tests required to diagnose the issue. I don't think anyone was ignoring your question they just didn't have the answer. You must have a good vet that is up on diseases and looks outside the box for answers.

TC, I am lucky to have the Vet I do but to have a dog with addisons is not good. Very expensive to treat and you pretty much have to take them out of the stressfull enviroment. The vet did alot of tests to get it to this point and now we are just waiting for some test results. I think there are a lot of dogs that do not get diagnosed woth this but it really is not a common problem in hounds. I know as of last Friday my dog could not even stand on his own and now he looks like a million bucks but the question is, is will he stay this way. I have found a lot of information on the internet and I think a lot of people that have problems with dogs and think it is kidney related should look at the addisondogs site.

I agree with you and maybe the reason not to many dogs have the disease is because it was not diagnosed properly.