My little girl now seems to be on a good regimen to ease her allergy symptoms. As posted earlier, prednisone changed her personality. We tried hydroxazine, better known as Atarax, with increasing doses until we got it right. Now, along with a super high quality vet-prescribed diet, she is doing pretty well. She still has a few itchies, but nothing like before. She is ~45 lbs and take 35 mg of Atarax twice a day. Atarax is a anti-histamine, like Benadryl but better, that also has some anxiety reducing properties. It has very few side effects and nothing like prednisone has...no liver failure possibilities and such. Next year, now that we have something that works, we will start Atarax much earlier, pre-allergy season, so she doesn't get to the point of scratching herself raw. Crossing the fingers and toes that this works!
UPDATE: She had another flare up that caused her to bite and scratch several sores on her back in one night. She is going to a specialist, see other post.
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