He's a dachshund (sp?) I did hear about some dog vitamins (sm)

• Old dog getting stinky - even the day after a bath! (nm) - Any remedies?
  • speaking of stinky dogs, mine rolled in something dead - a couple nights ago...sm
  • What kind of food to you feed him? - sansie
  • What are you feeding him/her? - Me
  • A couple years ago I asked about the same thing - sm - Laura E.
  • What it might be - mt2rn
  • Anal glands - Patti
  • What breed? - Misha
    • He's a dachshund (sp?) I did hear about some dog vitamins (sm) - Any remedies?
      • Dachshunds are supposed to be - Misha
        • Thought of one more possible culprit. - Misha
  • What is it with old stinky animals! - Hayseed
    • Hold on, now - not all old folks have that smell - Gertie
      • When I worked in an MD's office, - Ha
        • Or White Shoulders or any of those very heavy - scents from long ago. Gag!! nm
          • You say gag to those old scents from years ago - Gertie
  • wonder if there is a medical reason? - sm
  • Rub some baking soda or corn starch into him well and brush out? nm - Love a stinky pup! :)

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I took him to the vet and she said that his skin is not irritated so there is no need to switch his food yet. He is current on his flea medication so I don't know what's going on. Does anyone have any experience with this stuff??

I feel so bad for him he rolls around scratching himself all the time. His skin isn't red and he's not missing any patches of fur. My mom said to add olive oil to his dry food. Any thoughts?

Thanks!!

If you don't already take one, you might just try a good multivitamin rather than a B complex.  I hated the B complex.  Stinky is right.  Plus it looked like I had eaten a canary when I peed.  Okay, that was TMI.  Sorry. 

Definitely get the thyroid checked out.  Low thyroid can give you lots of symptoms that can mimic menopause and depression is one of them.  If your hair is thinning a little bit and your skin feels like it's drier than it used to be, those can all be symptoms of a low thyroid.

I was on Effexor for a while and hated it.  I didn't feel any less depressed, but I didn't care because I was asleep all the time.  I basically slept through December.  Which actually worked well in the grand scheme of things, but was not very productive.

Back to the thyroid, though.  That may very well be an underlying cause for your depression.  Probably not the only one, but it could be contributing.  Some things to think about -   What are your eating habits like and have they changed drastically in the last year with all the stress?   If you eat lots of prepared foods, that definitely is affecting things.  Try getting rid of anything white in your diet - white bread, flour, potatoes, etc.  It's hard, but you'll be AMAZED at how different you feel.    I actually went one step further and try to eat a raw diet as much as possible.  This is new for me, but it's astonishing at how much better I feel. 

Exercise is also a very important key in helping to combat depression.   Sunlight is another very important key.  Even if it's only to walk down to the end of the street, try to do that once a day.  You need to get the Vitamin D from the sunlight and the fresh air will help.

If you think a low thyroid may be a factor, here are a couple of things I discovered.  Iodine is a very important nutrient in thyroid health.  The only way you can get iodine is if you eat fish or use iodized salt.  I don't do either.  I started taking a kelp supplement for the iodine.  If you use artificial sweeteners at all, they can lodge in the thyroid and hamper its effectiveness.  Fluoride in water is another biggie.  Fluoride mimics estrogen and also inhibits thyroid function.  A Brita water filter, or any similar one DOES NOT remove fluoride.  You have to get a separate fluoride filter for that.  I take kelp, stay away from diet sodas (I used to drink diet Pepsi by the gallon, practically) and have the fluoride filter on the sink.  I then put that water through the Brita filter.  I also take another herbal supplement called Ashwaganda that helps promote thyroid health.

I have been taking the vitamins and supplements really consistently for the past couple of weeks, and I feel better now than when I was on levothyroxine and Effexor combined.

Good luck.  I hope you find a regimen that works for you.

i had been bying vitamins from wal-mart.  then i went to GNC and talk the gal that works there and she recommended GNC brand ultra gold which i do take when i think about it.  but their vitamins are so big, they almost gag me, even the smell gags me.  supposed to take two a day.  they are loaded with stuff.  just wondered what ya'll take.

ps:  can't tell a difference in my energy level when i take GNC vitamins. 

I'm looking for a good multivitamin.  I'm in my late 40's and I also take extra calcium with D but I'm wondering if the generic vitamins are just as good as the expensive ones?

but I guess I should start taking them and see if that is helpful.  I'll just hold my nose. Yuck!

Thanks for the suggestion. 

nm

Sorry to hear this happened to you, don't know what to say, but this has never happened to me, and both my CPA and the other person, a corporate estate tax person, say that I'm legal and nobody has come after me or notified me that I am in the wrong.... 

Just called the courts and on my way there now to swear out warrant for arrest of the person writing the bad check. Talk with you later.

This situation sounds a little iffy to me, too. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck....

I seem to have more and more of those days as I grow older lately.  Good thing the caffeine doesn't affect my sleep, though.

You are right about them wanting to go away and die, though.  My cat, who was mostly and indoor cat, would go outside for years and never step foot near the road.  Always stayed in the yard and "hunted".  Once she got sick, she started acting strange and one day, meowed at the door to go out and went straight into the road and got hit by a car.  It was almost like she wanted it to end quickly...

It's hard to lose a pet - hugs to you!

My parents separated several years.  Although the details aren't quite the same, the end result was.  My dad hit my mom.  It wasn't the first time, but that isn't my point here.

My point is this:  My mom has been miserable ever since she took him back.  She constantly brings up the circumstances surrounding it and never lets him forget that she took him back.  She has now let the anger take over her and consume her to the point that I can't remember the last time she was just content.  She's not the mom I used to know and I'm not sure how to handle it anymore, but my advice to you is if you can't forgive, get out.  Get out before you spend the rest of your life trying to make his life miserable as a punishment for what he did.  It will eat you up inside and you'll end up alienating the people around you.  Life's too short to spend it in misery.  I feel for you.

You should hear how my one doctor says Protonix.   Took me awhile to figure him out -- Gosh you would think a doctor would know how to correctly dictate a drug!

what the heck was he doing out at 5:30 AM with a 9-yo?

Did you have a talk with him or just tell him? I think you made the right decision for now. Let him think about it. Maybe you can have a close friend of yours or him to try to talk sense into him.

I didn't state in my earlier reply that I, also, am a stepmom. My husband's son lived with his grandmother for the first 3 years and he was terrified of me. Long story there, but his real mother was kicked out when the child was 6 weeks old and his grandmother drilled it into his head about his mother.

My husband and I had many a fight over him, but I tried to stick it out until the day my stepson said I wasn't his mother and he hated me and he would never call me mom or even my first name.  This was at a birthday party and that was the last straw. I left my husband that day.

My best friend sat down after that and had a chat with my husband because he never intervened when his son made snide remarks about me, and he finally realized he was on a guilt trip for his ex's behavior. We got back together and it took another 3 years, but now his son calls me mom and he treats me better than my own son!

I wish you the best of luck. It is a tough road to haul, but if your guy cares anything at all about you, he will try to figure out the problem.