The saga continues

TJ has been on the antibiotics for over 2 weeks now, and to me it seems as if he is nearly back to where he started before we began the treatment. He's itching constantly, his front and rear legs are raw from scratching and biting, and he seems pretty miserable. He does appear to have a little bit more energy than he had for a while, but I'm not sure why that is. He hardly has any discharge except for on his chest, and when Erin took him to the vet she said that the discharge was bacteria, not yeast.

I have my suspicions that he has a mild allergy to the antibiotics. When I brought this up to Erin she dismissed it, saying that this is the same antibiotic he always gets, and that the itching was due to allergies. However, he wasn't itching before he took the antibiotics. I have a hard time believing the antibiotics "caused" an allergy to his food or environment that he didn't have before. I'm really curious how they would treat him if he did have an allergy to the antibiotics. But that's just my assessment. If he always ends up taking steroids after the antibiotics to stop the itching ... hmmm, just seems to make sense to me.

He definitely hasn't been nearly as stinky as he was before, but his fur gets sticky after a few days. Some days his chest has a lot of discharge; some days none at all. I think he might be growing some of the fur back on his chin, and the bare patch he had on his back from his ACL surgery has completely grown back. He still has a bare patch on his tail where he chewed on it. The inside of his lips was really pink yesterday, and he still isn't eating normally, although he's getting better. He's also still really picky about drinking water from his regular bowl, which we can't figure out. And yes, that is duct tape on his nails, which helps a little to keep him from tearing himself up.