Hi everyone....
I have a problem with my dog (German short haired pointer). A little while ago she developed a high fever initially the vet thought that it was a cold and gave us antibiotics and pain killers. A week later the fever came back again, after the pain killers ran out. We took her back to the vet, who decided to do blood tests, these came back not showing anything abnormal but we were given some more antibiotics and pain killers.
We then decided to have an xray and an ultrsound - both of these came back negative. But the vet that did the ultrsound suggested that we test for Lupis. She was taken off the antibiotics and put on steriods - which seemed to work ok meaning the fever didn't come back.
A week later the tests came back negative, so we decided to start weening her off the steriods. Three days after we started the weening the fever came back, so we went back to the inital dose of steriods.
The steriods are making her super hungry and super thirsty - the vet wants us to stay on these until at least September. The only proble is now she has started to pack on the weight - which we did expect but its just crazy.
Was wondering if anyone has ever seen this before and has any advise. I know that long term steroids is going to give her other complications, but I just don't know what else to do anymore...
Thanks and sorry for the long post