Post by katt on Feb 26, 2014 18:12:19 GMT -5
This came up in conversation recently so I thought I would sticky it here. This is a video of what Adrenal Disease mounting behavior/sexual aggression looks like. Normally nothing would stop Koda from running to the door as soon as it opened, which you can see he quite ignored. He is not simply being dominant, he is sexually mounting, and he would even occasionally hump. Scruffing alone would not release him, as demonstrated. I would have to carefully pry his jaws off of Kenai's scruff to get him to let go. This behavior stopped approximately 6-8 weeks after starting treatment for Adrenal Disease. We began with Lupron and switched to Des as soon as it was available. Both of my boys were diagnosed off of sexual aggression and excessive itching. Neither had any fur loss.
Both have IBD, which improved greatly when the adrenal was treated.
Both of them are on Deslorelin implants which, as of this year, we are giving every 6 months. Koda was 18 months at the time of his initial diagnosis. Kenai was about 2 years old. So young.
An added note on the Deslorelin... Please implant every 6-9 months once you start. I deeply regret not listening to that bit of advice. When the implants first came out everyone was saying "1 year 1 year!" so I convinced my bullheaded-self that 1 year should be all they needed, no reason to give it more... And it did work great for a while
the problem was, right at 11-12 months, Koda would show breakthrough symptoms, and I used that as my cue to re-implant. I would get a new implant only when he started breakthrough, and separate the boys if needed (bc of the sexual behavior) for a few weeks until the new implant kicked in.
Which means, I should have been implanting at 9 months all along. Now Koda has major breakthrough symptoms at ~8-9 months, and does not respond to Lupron (which I tried this year to get us through the 3 months until his next annual Des for the sake of keeping the boys on the same schedule).
In other words, I let the disease progress. BOTH of my boys are now getting Des implants every 6 months, regardless of symptoms.
Both have IBD, which improved greatly when the adrenal was treated.
Both of them are on Deslorelin implants which, as of this year, we are giving every 6 months. Koda was 18 months at the time of his initial diagnosis. Kenai was about 2 years old. So young.
An added note on the Deslorelin... Please implant every 6-9 months once you start. I deeply regret not listening to that bit of advice. When the implants first came out everyone was saying "1 year 1 year!" so I convinced my bullheaded-self that 1 year should be all they needed, no reason to give it more... And it did work great for a while
the problem was, right at 11-12 months, Koda would show breakthrough symptoms, and I used that as my cue to re-implant. I would get a new implant only when he started breakthrough, and separate the boys if needed (bc of the sexual behavior) for a few weeks until the new implant kicked in.
Which means, I should have been implanting at 9 months all along. Now Koda has major breakthrough symptoms at ~8-9 months, and does not respond to Lupron (which I tried this year to get us through the 3 months until his next annual Des for the sake of keeping the boys on the same schedule).
In other words, I let the disease progress. BOTH of my boys are now getting Des implants every 6 months, regardless of symptoms.
