Hi Claire,
Well where to start??? Our vet eventually after various other treatments said Maisy had a food allergy and put her on d/d venison and green pea which she has been on for just over 8 weeks and there has been no improvement. Previous to this as her condition has been ongoing now for over 5 months we have tried steroids, creams, a biopsy and blood tests (as she was only scratching one area) nothing stopped her scratching. We would go 6 weeks with the collar on take it off and she would scratch and so the circle would go on.
I understood from my vet that instead of playing the trial and error game with food to find out what Maisy was allergic to we could go to the vet school and have these tests done. When I get there I am told that they cannot test for food allergy only element allergy i.e. grass, dust etc. My poor Maisy has been shaved and pin prick tested with 45 things and it all came back negative. As this was negative we then had to pay for bloods tests, I am not sure when or how we will get the results of these. Basically we travelled to Bristol, spent £450 and have been sent away with steroids and over the counter human allergy/hey fever tables for her. We have been told to take her collar off in a week when hopefully the steroids have kicked in although this is a path we have tried many times before and she has just continued to scratch. I just hope we can claim the money back through our insurance as the whole thing was very badly organised and the paperwork I have received from them very poor. All in all I do not feel any closer to an answer to Maisy's scratching than before we went and really do not know what to do next.
I hope Honey improves on the food, how is she on the steroids? our Maisy became very quiet and withdrawn which is why our vet wanted to find a solution without keeping her on the steroids. At the end of it all I just feel more confused than before.
