welshies
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hi, my poor little bady welsh springer was struck down with, after numerous test and £5000 later, what they can only describe as an auto immune dissorder that has attached her eye sight. She has been left blind in one eye and partially sighted in the other. As you can probably imagine it's absolulety gutting what has happened to her especially as she is only 2, but we are over that now as she still has a wonderful life and if you didn't know her you probably wouldn't know there was anything wrong with her, plus we still have her! But anyway my question is regarding the steroids she is on, prednisilone, and how to deal with them. The 'problem' she has has been kept under control with the steroids, massive dose as first now slowing decreasing but as they have no real idea what caused it and so if it is still there/will come back they are saying she will be on steroids for at least 2 years and possibly life. She does however cope ver well being on them, the initial 2 weeks were hell, constant drinking/weeing and pooing everywhere! But all that has stopped, she drinks normally, wee's normally and her stools are know normal. The biggest side effect we are left with is her massive weight gain. She has gone from 18kg to 22kg, but she hasn't been weighed for about 2month now and i'm possitive she has put more on, alot for a little dog! The vet says steroids effect the distribution of fat so she had fatty lumps on her hips and a big round body with little skinny legs! Does anyone have any experience with dealing with either steroids or weight gain? Although she is constantly starving and looking for food, which must be horrible too, nothing has actually changed in her diet. She also hasn't had a season for nearly a year now.