CVFlagg
Well-known member
Hi All-
Recently my 11.5 year old girl has been going through some health issues. She spent several days in ICU and it was determined it was a liver issue. We did a liver biopsy and it came back as "reactive hepatophy (sp?) which translates in to "liver signs without primary liver disease" or as I refer to it, "we have no idea!" She has seen specialists and all agree that since her mood and activity level is fine and she is not showing any signs of illness we just need to monitor her to make sure that does not change.
Now, in the past few days, a new issue has developed. She will sit up, cry/whine like she is in pain and then either immediately lick/gnaw at her privates, scratch at her neck or roll her entire body around on the ground. I am writing this in the middle of the night because she is keeping me up, being completely restless. She will lay in her usual spot next to me on her pillow and then out of a total sleep jolt up, go move to another part of the bed, lay there for a minute, then come back to her spot, a couple times she has gone to the end of the bed, whined, stopped then come back. The whining has been going on for a few days but the restlessness has just begun. I have completely inspected her to see if there is anything on her body and I cannot find anything. I have also touched and pressed around seeing if I can't get her to whine/cry out so I can at least know what area is causing her pain and I get nothing. I am seriously at a loss here.
I will obviously get a vet appointment for first thing Monday but wanted to reach out and see if anyone had an ideas/suggestions of what this could be first. I spent north of $6K on the whole liver situation and am literally running out of money so any ideas to help get us on the right track with the vet would be much appreciated.
Recently my 11.5 year old girl has been going through some health issues. She spent several days in ICU and it was determined it was a liver issue. We did a liver biopsy and it came back as "reactive hepatophy (sp?) which translates in to "liver signs without primary liver disease" or as I refer to it, "we have no idea!" She has seen specialists and all agree that since her mood and activity level is fine and she is not showing any signs of illness we just need to monitor her to make sure that does not change.
Now, in the past few days, a new issue has developed. She will sit up, cry/whine like she is in pain and then either immediately lick/gnaw at her privates, scratch at her neck or roll her entire body around on the ground. I am writing this in the middle of the night because she is keeping me up, being completely restless. She will lay in her usual spot next to me on her pillow and then out of a total sleep jolt up, go move to another part of the bed, lay there for a minute, then come back to her spot, a couple times she has gone to the end of the bed, whined, stopped then come back. The whining has been going on for a few days but the restlessness has just begun. I have completely inspected her to see if there is anything on her body and I cannot find anything. I have also touched and pressed around seeing if I can't get her to whine/cry out so I can at least know what area is causing her pain and I get nothing. I am seriously at a loss here.
I will obviously get a vet appointment for first thing Monday but wanted to reach out and see if anyone had an ideas/suggestions of what this could be first. I spent north of $6K on the whole liver situation and am literally running out of money so any ideas to help get us on the right track with the vet would be much appreciated.