Carrie,
I had thought of getting a CD of a storm and playing it constantly but I was afraid of putting her through too much trauma. Since I have one success story, it brings me hope. I'm going to give it a try. We had real bad storm yesterday, heavy rain, hail, lightening and thunder. I put her in her cage and it helped. I forget that dogs consider their cage their "safe place". Since her cage is downstairs and too heavy to take upstairs, I cleaned out an area in my closet for her. Hopefully she'll consider it a safe place too. I'm going to try to make it seem like a cave. If the closet/cave doesn't work, I'm going to have to get the herbal medicine. I too, like Aly, hate doing that to her, but the other night she actually jumped on top of my 4 yr. old toddler (she's sick and sleeping with us because of the coughing). Patience literally stepped on her head and laid on top of her. I can't have that happening. We didn't have a thunderstorm last night so I didn't get to test out the "cave."
Thank everyone for their suggestions. It's nice to have somewhere to go for support.