Jamana
Well-Known Member
Anyone had any experience with this disease? We have a 12 month old Curly coat retriever who shows symptoms of this. From what I can find out reading via the internet the prognosis of him recovering doesn't look good,in fact it looks pretty much always fatal.From what I can see it the affected dog starts to show signs from about 4 months old and most affected dogs either die before they reach 3 years or are PTS once discovered they have this condition.
He is going to vets next week for a blood test to determine if he has Glycogen storage disease.He hasn't ever really thrived always looks on the thin side not overly poor but never as he should,his coat is dry and the hair is brittle ish,his appetite is very indifferent he has recently started to vomit not daily but 2/3 times this last fortnight his stools are like cow pats ranging in colour from greenish to grey he has always been like this.Also when he goes out on exercise he's full of beans then hits a wall and just has no energy and needs to lie down and seems excessively fatigued.
Anyway just asking if anyone else has ever come across this and is the future as bleak as it's sounding reading about the condition.
Thanks so much for any help
He is going to vets next week for a blood test to determine if he has Glycogen storage disease.He hasn't ever really thrived always looks on the thin side not overly poor but never as he should,his coat is dry and the hair is brittle ish,his appetite is very indifferent he has recently started to vomit not daily but 2/3 times this last fortnight his stools are like cow pats ranging in colour from greenish to grey he has always been like this.Also when he goes out on exercise he's full of beans then hits a wall and just has no energy and needs to lie down and seems excessively fatigued.
Anyway just asking if anyone else has ever come across this and is the future as bleak as it's sounding reading about the condition.
Thanks so much for any help