By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:42:29 +0000

would a normal check up for a puppy shown diabetes or should i ask for a test

By: Corri Embry

Corri Embry — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:58:25 +0000

I found my puppy abandoned in a dog park in Albuquerque NM a couple days before thanksgiving. She was aprox 5wks at the time. She is growing just as a puppy should but recently (as in 2-3 wks) i’ve had to take her to the vet because of continuous pacing around the perimiter of a room and climbing over things instead of going around (which we have discovered is because her eyes aren’t tracking she is pretty much blind) lots of salvating, inability to turn her head, lethargic and not drinking (which we figured out is from the blindness, she knocks the water over when searching for it) the first thing the vet told me was he thought she had rabies… how can a dog that hasn’t had any exposure to outside animals get rabies? they kept her over night doing blood tests and waiting for more information from the state vet. The next morning they told me to come and get her that she was completly back to normal for a puppy, rambunctious, turning her head, eyes tracking the whole shabang. they sent her home with some antibiotics for a wk. she was great for about a day then we were back at step one with an extra symptom… her front end would collapse and her back end would lock in the standing position. they wanted to hospitalize her but due to money retraints we had to opt for treating the sypmtoms at home. he put her on a heavy antibiotic and a steriod 2xday for four days along with continuous crating except for going potty which she had to do on a leash. at her follow up on the fourth day she was again back to normal (she was vastly improved the same night we started her on the meds) so the vet gave us enough of the steroid to wean her off of it. once a day for five days then once every other day till gone. well today is the first day of the every other day stage and she has completly regressed yet again. she was fine when I left for work but from what I was told she got worse and worse as the day went by and the steroid flushed out of her system. I gave her one of the remaining pills when I got home and witnessed her regression and she is again completly crated except for potty on a leash the only way she can drink is if I hold a cup full of water under her nose while she drinks. as long as I do this she drinks like a camel just as she has done since day one. The 2nd vet diagnosis was insephilitis. (there were some unusual liver enzymes in her blood work). a Friend of the family sugested that she be treated for Diabetes… could she really have diabetes? I am calling the vet first thing in the morning for another follow up but I am considering changing vets if this one cant figure things out pretty soon.

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