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Ahh poor pup! Hope you get the med combo figured out.Even if they could understand I don't think you could explain it to her. The fear/anxiety was off the charts. We have this nagging feeling that there was abuse in her previous life, because she was extremely timid and scared of everything. We tried all the non medical options but they just wouldn't work and the concern was that the level of the anxiety was so great that she would either overheat or go into cardiac distress. Our Vet has tried a couple of different meds without success, but the last combo seems to be working (it's the most expensive of course). She's on a daily pill called Clomicalm, then supplement it with Trazodone for storm events. She's been getting progessively better on the Clomicalm daily, seems to be mellowing her out, so she isn't so skittish about everything. Once we found the right dosage for her on the Trazodone, it seems to help with the storms also. Without, the Trazodone added, on a scale of 1-10 she was still like 10+. With the correct dosage now she's more like -5, still a little skittish but bearable. We found out early on that there's a tipping point on the meds. You have to increase the dosage to get the desired effect, but if you go to far, you get the opposite effect, she'll turn into a bouncing off the walls crazy wild thing, it's been a challenge. She actually went out on the boat with us the other day, didn't faze her a bit. A month ago, we wouldn't have been able to hold her in.