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Originally Posted by rainbow
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It's entirely possible. The specialist doesn't know for sure what's wrong. The meningitis could be just that. Some puppies get it for no reason they can explain. If that's the case he may just need to be on steroids for 6-8 months and then be ok. But with all the other problems, like the tummy troubles and pneumonia, she thinks it's more of an auto-immune disease of some kind (eosiniphilic syndrome possibly), if that's what it is then he will most likely have to be on medication for life. Though she did say both of those could be side effects of the meds too. She said with the steroid responsive meningitis, he may have to be on a very low dose of pred for life as well, but only time will tell. Guess we will just have to wait and see. As long as he is playing, happy and not sufffering, we're happy too  
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