Our Pyr, Roxy, has Addisons Disease. She was always a picky eater, but soon stopped eating altogether. After 4 days of refusing food, we were trying to give her anything, ham, steak, chicken, even a pig ear. She didn't want any of it. She became very lethargic and would lay in the yard in places she had never laid before. She didn't respond to her name, could barely walk alone. We took her to the vet and they thought maybe she had eaten a sock, tennis ball etc. and there was possibly some sort of blockage. To make long story short, they opened her up and found nothing. Two days after operation, her teeth would be chattering and her gums were cold as ice, as were her paws. I put socks on her feet wrapped her in warm towels and blankets and kept her warm with the hair drier. The next am we took her back to the vet. Our regular vet had been out of town (at a Canine Addisons Disease conference)but had returned. He immideatly noticed the signs and ran the test for AD.. it came back positive. Roxy was having an Addisonian Crisis and she was in shock. Addisons is very serious if not treated immidiatly. IT MUST BE TESTED FOR. Her potassium levels were at deadly high levels, she was dehydrated and her body temp was frigid. The vet said we had 1-2 hours max to get her to the animal emergency center of AZ, before we would lose her. The operation plus tests, medications, xrays etc had already cost us over $1500. We were asking if there was any other option and our vet refunded us all the money we had just paid and told us to get roxy there asap and that they would be waiting for us. Roxy stayed there for 5 nights (there went our trip to Europe) but luckily she pulled through. We have to give her medication twice a day, every day for the rest of her life. We were so lucky that our vet had just been to the AD conference. So FYI you have to test for Addisons; it doesn't come up in any other tests. I hope everything is okay with your big baby! I don't know what I would do without mine! Sorry this was so long. I hope nobody has to go through what we did with our Roxy.
We hope Harley gets better soon! Keep us posted!
Stephanie, Nick & Roxy