Significant muscle wasting due to predisolne

Hi Rebecca,

I’m sorry you’ve come looking but glad you found us.

First of all, YES. When the prednisone is reduced, all the symptoms go away. For now, use good quality proteins, white fish is good as it’s easy on the liver which will be working hard right now because of the prednisone.

Is Ashton on any other medication?

Do you have a copy of Ashton’s blood works? If you like you can attach them to the Urgent Advice, and Patrice, the site owner, will have a look at them for you and can help you to understand what is happening.

The seizures, has Ashton had his thyroid checked? May be a dumb question, so please forgive me. My boy Bingo started having seizures about a month after vaccinations. He was never vaccinated again, and I changed his diet to raw feeding. The seizures eventually stopped, however, a few years down the track, he did develop AIHA. When diagnosed, he was also found to have hypothyroidism.

Ask anything at all Rebecca, we love to help.

Vally

Rebecca, can you check about freezing the serum. I’m not sure the sample would be good when frozen and I don’t want you to send it off if it won’t be any good.

Checking weekly is a really good thing, especially after a taper.

Muscle tone will get better once prednisone is reduced and hopefully stopped and I’m a big fan of raw food. I didn’t use it whilst Bingo was on the pred though as they are more susceptible to stomach bugs and because their immune system is being kept shut down, they have a hard time fighting it. He ended up with a massive case of gastro (had to be hospitalised) and from then on used cooked food until he was right down to only a maintenance dose of pred.

Good luck on your next check up.