Mollies allergies

Thanks Janice, yeah, somewhere I signed that rollcall at the beginning, but geezzzzzzz I need to keep going back to figure out everyone.....lol!!!!
 
You know it was my son who gave Ollie the shots, he is his dog but Ollie spent half of his life with me so I was really involved with him.  It really didn't cost much more than a regular vet appointment to get the blood test and injections, and Ollie never had to go back.  I was worried that Mike could do it but it was a "piece of cake" to him. That helped!  I suppose to take him to the vet each week might have been more money.  In the end, had he gone for that blood test much sooner, it would have been a lot less expensive than all the other vet and medicine expenses, since he had to be on so much for so long.  Ollie doesn't have to take maintnance injections, he sneezes a bit more at certain times but nothing that needs any meds for. THANK GOODNESS!!!   That is where good food  and some supplements help his immune system we think. AND again, we don't take a chance by getting him any vaccinations or HW.

Janice & Dyan,
As always, thanks for your replies.  I wish it were more evident who everyone is on this new site, but I didn't have any problem recognizing the two of you [].  I need to get some photos of my girls up, but have been a wee busy here at work.
I'm hopeful that seeing the head dermatologist today will give me some more answers on where to go next.  Poor Sassy was licking herself this morning and is clearly more uncomfortable than she'd been before.  I know the Ketaconazale is rough on the liver and I just hate using that again.  I could swear they gave her Keflex before for the yeast, but it's all becoming a blur. 
I started her on the elimination diet on Feb 3rd, so it's been a month and they said stick with it 12 weeks.  The vet said to give a multi-vitamin, but Mordonna (mordonna.com) suggested not to use it for the same reason as the Great Dane Lady.  So, the only thing she gets now is pork, buckwheat, the antibiotics and benadryl. 
I'm going to ask the vet about using the Bactoderm or Animax today too.  Maybe we can go with a topical and not another antibiotic for the yeast.  Her tummy looks pretty good (the bacterial infection area) but only for the last 4-5 days, so they may want to extend the Cipro and Clindomycin. 
I'm am fully ready to go with the allergy testing even if I have to take out a 2nd mortgage.  The way things have been going, I wish I'd just done it sooner.  I think the vet will agree that it's time now.  I honestly hope I could learn to give the shots, but my husband is an EMT, so I'm sure he'll be fine if I'm not.
I'll post what the vet says tomorrow.

Good Luck Cathy! Keep us posted!
For sure the few weeks of being on that diet are not long enough to tell if its helping yet, so your right  to keep her on it just to see. Changing now would not prove a thing one way or another.

     Dyan, Jessie may only need to be on the shots another year or two. From what I've read, dogs that are on the shots for three years usually have acquired enough immunity to do well without them. I thought I could do the shots because our children used to raise breeds of pigeons, such as English fantails, for showing, and I vaccinated them. I tried giving Jessie the shots for two months but was always very nervous about doing them. The vet is only fifteen minutes away, and they keep the vaccine there and measure it in the syringe for the shot. It's ten dollars, which isn't bad for two weeks considering we were frequently spending over a hundred dollars a month to treat skin infections. You are right about the allergy diet, too soon to know if it helps.
      Cakana,  I hope that things get better for Sassy very soon. It's very painful to see your dog suffer from skin infections and have to endure numerous vet visits. Let us know what the vet says. 

Janice & Dyan - Just got back from the vet and I'm going to start a new thread since I feel like I've hijacked this one enough.   

Just wanted to update you guys about Molly. After she was given her first food she threw it all up.Eloise figured it was because she hadn't eaten in 24 hours and was starved and ate too fast. She fed her some chicken and rice again the next day, a little at a time and she was okay.Then Eloise said she hadn't had a BM since Sat. and this was probably monday.   I suggested pumpkin and then gave her a can to try. Molle didn't like it, and Eloise brought the can back last night and said she ate her supper and threw it all back up. I didn't think to ask her if she had a BM yet or not.  Eloise said she stopped all of her medicine she was taking. 

      Dyan, Could Molly be throwing up because her system hasn't had time to adjust to the new food? If the change in her diet was made suddenly, instead of over several days, that could explain the constipation and vomitting.

She has told me quit a while ago that Mollie has colitis, last night Eloise said she threw up her supper, but then she does have colitis!
I do believe that Mollie eats one time a day, I told Eloise maybe she should feed her smaller amounts two times, that maybe she could hold it down better.