I need help with Mia
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Right now she's at the hospital and I'm waiting to pick her up. They are running bloodwork, fluoroscopy, endoscopy, and radiographs. They saw what my vet had seen on the old radiographs but are wanting to run a new one since that was one month old an she has deteriorated. Will let you know when I get her back.
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Ok so here's the good and bad.
- I messed up and we did not run an endoscopy but we did a fluoroscopy, a radiograph, urinalysis (because of another issue we've been having, obvs not the trachea lol), physical checkup, and full blood work. Came out at $320. So not bad at ALL.
Diagnosis is what we figured which is a collapsed trachea. The vets were very suspicious at first because she just doesn't goose honk. But it is actually like Sass had explained earlier here:
So basically her trachea just kind of hangs down a little bit all the time and is obstructing her airway. SHe's not having severe collapses that are causing coughing fits.
So... from here there's not much to do. We're going to just have to adjust to a lower activity level lifestyle. And that sucks. But on the other hand, the vet said everything else is great- heart, lungs looked good. No infections. The tracheal collapse at this point is very minor. She thinks medication at this point would cause more issues than it would solve BUT there is a possibility (likelihood) that we will visit medication down the road. And surgery is even way further down the road. She was very assuring that even though I've read horror stories online that a large portion of tracheal collapse patients live with either no treatment at all or medical treatment only and don'tneed the surgery. So... alll in all pretty much the same thing my vet said but it's good to hear it from another vet. And it's good to see everything else is pointing at the same issue.
No collars for Mia. Heat is going to make things worse. The raspy breathing is just a thing that will not ever go away. It's a new normal for us for sure. But I am feeling much better about that being our problem.
- I messed up and we did not run an endoscopy but we did a fluoroscopy, a radiograph, urinalysis (because of another issue we've been having, obvs not the trachea lol), physical checkup, and full blood work. Came out at $320. So not bad at ALL.
Diagnosis is what we figured which is a collapsed trachea. The vets were very suspicious at first because she just doesn't goose honk. But it is actually like Sass had explained earlier here:
So basically her trachea just kind of hangs down a little bit all the time and is obstructing her airway. SHe's not having severe collapses that are causing coughing fits.
So... from here there's not much to do. We're going to just have to adjust to a lower activity level lifestyle. And that sucks. But on the other hand, the vet said everything else is great- heart, lungs looked good. No infections. The tracheal collapse at this point is very minor. She thinks medication at this point would cause more issues than it would solve BUT there is a possibility (likelihood) that we will visit medication down the road. And surgery is even way further down the road. She was very assuring that even though I've read horror stories online that a large portion of tracheal collapse patients live with either no treatment at all or medical treatment only and don'tneed the surgery. So... alll in all pretty much the same thing my vet said but it's good to hear it from another vet. And it's good to see everything else is pointing at the same issue.
No collars for Mia. Heat is going to make things worse. The raspy breathing is just a thing that will not ever go away. It's a new normal for us for sure. But I am feeling much better about that being our problem.