kaytee576
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Hi, I really hope you can help me? bare with me though as this is a long story but I could really do with some advice right now
My cavalier king charles kaytee is 7, she has never been very well, she has syringmelia (sorry cant spell) Dry eye well thats just the ones I am certain she has but nothing makes sense to me anymore.
It all started when i first got her, she was never right, if i offered her food she would gag and it sounded like she had to clear her throat before she could eat, and then there was constant sickness she was sick at least four days out of a week, I took her to my vet and she was sent to a specialist vet in newmarket (UK) to work it all out.
Well they discovered she has a elongated soft pallet, also she has IBD (irritable bowel disease) which would explain the sickness and occasional diarrhea, so we changed her food to Walthams Sensitivity control, she was put on Zantac syrup for a while and some special tablets (sorry forgot what they were) but they were used to take the inflammation down in her stomach.
She was also put on prednisolone 5mg every other day which they say she has to be on for life
But the thing that bothers me is at the time they did this test where they fill her lungs with air, i cant really remember why but I remember they said she had a slight infection in her lungs, they said could even possibly be lung worm and they put her on some wormers and a course of synulox.
But when I returned to them months later they never did check the lungs to see if the infection had gone?
Her sickness is alot better, I have even managed to take her off the walthams and feed her on James wellbeloved, so far so good.
But what worries me now is she has a cough, has had it for a hell of a long time now when I spoke to my vet she said it could be bronchitis, but the steroids she was already on hadn't helped the cough and my vet said that maybe the cough is caused by her heart as she could hear a murmur on the right side she said a grade two
Right so you can probably see how confused I am, I havent a clue what she has im so mixed up, I have lost all faith in vets now, I have asked for the specialist vets to send me a print out of all the treatment she had and results to try and understand better.
I hate tablets I worry about giving them to her as my last cavalier was on heart pills and prednisolone and died of liver failure I cant help but worry that the tablets may have caused it?
At the moment kaytee is on
Fortekor 5mg once a day
Frusemide 20mg once aday
and prednisolone 5mg every other day.
So far she has been on the heart pills and water tablets a week and her cough is no better in fact it seems to be getting worse.
I must add before I go that the thing I do not get about this cough is that it is worse when kaytee goes to bed at night, I know cavaliers with bad hearts cough more at night but I don't get it as when I take her into the living room the cough eases, and tonight I was massaging her throat either side of the middle bit and it calmed it down...Yet sometimes in the day if she gets stressed she coughs...I DONT GET IT one minute i think its the heart then the bronchitis then the soft pallet...I seem to be getting no where with the vets...any advice? xxx
My cavalier king charles kaytee is 7, she has never been very well, she has syringmelia (sorry cant spell) Dry eye well thats just the ones I am certain she has but nothing makes sense to me anymore.
It all started when i first got her, she was never right, if i offered her food she would gag and it sounded like she had to clear her throat before she could eat, and then there was constant sickness she was sick at least four days out of a week, I took her to my vet and she was sent to a specialist vet in newmarket (UK) to work it all out.
Well they discovered she has a elongated soft pallet, also she has IBD (irritable bowel disease) which would explain the sickness and occasional diarrhea, so we changed her food to Walthams Sensitivity control, she was put on Zantac syrup for a while and some special tablets (sorry forgot what they were) but they were used to take the inflammation down in her stomach.
She was also put on prednisolone 5mg every other day which they say she has to be on for life
But the thing that bothers me is at the time they did this test where they fill her lungs with air, i cant really remember why but I remember they said she had a slight infection in her lungs, they said could even possibly be lung worm and they put her on some wormers and a course of synulox.
But when I returned to them months later they never did check the lungs to see if the infection had gone?
Her sickness is alot better, I have even managed to take her off the walthams and feed her on James wellbeloved, so far so good.
But what worries me now is she has a cough, has had it for a hell of a long time now when I spoke to my vet she said it could be bronchitis, but the steroids she was already on hadn't helped the cough and my vet said that maybe the cough is caused by her heart as she could hear a murmur on the right side she said a grade two
Right so you can probably see how confused I am, I havent a clue what she has im so mixed up, I have lost all faith in vets now, I have asked for the specialist vets to send me a print out of all the treatment she had and results to try and understand better.
I hate tablets I worry about giving them to her as my last cavalier was on heart pills and prednisolone and died of liver failure I cant help but worry that the tablets may have caused it?
At the moment kaytee is on
Fortekor 5mg once a day
Frusemide 20mg once aday
and prednisolone 5mg every other day.
So far she has been on the heart pills and water tablets a week and her cough is no better in fact it seems to be getting worse.
I must add before I go that the thing I do not get about this cough is that it is worse when kaytee goes to bed at night, I know cavaliers with bad hearts cough more at night but I don't get it as when I take her into the living room the cough eases, and tonight I was massaging her throat either side of the middle bit and it calmed it down...Yet sometimes in the day if she gets stressed she coughs...I DONT GET IT one minute i think its the heart then the bronchitis then the soft pallet...I seem to be getting no where with the vets...any advice? xxx