BrownieDaisyandJasmine<3
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My three year old girl was spayed on Dec 11, 2022. She healed perfectly and all was well for a while until January end when I noticed her straining to pee.
She produced a drop of two, but in the next few hours went back to normal and did normal pee puddles too. Since then, I have noticed she strains occasionally, like one time in a week and then goes back to normal. Everything else is fine.
I took her to my local vet, not the one who spayed her as he's 12 hours away in a different city. We did xrays and nothing showed up. I gave him a sample too to test for UTI, and it came back positive. The vet said severe UTI and also said there was too much sediment, so he said increase water intake.
He gave her an antibiotic via injection, the name was really weird like cef+sul 0.2 ml and said he didn't want to start oral antibiotics as they would cause an upset tummy, and gave me vitamin c for rabbits, hamster, chinchillas. He also said that he feels the spay has gone wrong, because when he palpated her, he felt something like adhesions from the left over uterine stump.
Now even I know that he's wrong about not starting oral antibiotics because if the UTI is severe, then meds should be started asap and not just Vitamin C. I called the one who did her spay and he told me to give the enrofloxacin 15mg left from when she was spayed, 1ml for 5 days.
Should I start the enrofloxacin? And for how many days? Because I feel 5 days won't be enough for a severe UTI.
Also, about the adhesions, could that be causing the urine issues? Because I find it kinda weird that she strains at a fixed time once a week and then is perfectly normal for the rest of the week.
Could the adhesions become life threatening? I have read so many horror stories about adhesions to the bowels and how they cause recurring bouts of stasis until it finally causes bloat and takes the bun. But she has never had a stasis bout. I also read that trying to fix the adhesions through another surgery would only cause much worse adhesions so it seems like an awful Catch 22.
If there are adhesions, can the symptoms be managed and the bun has a fair quality of life for the rest of its life?
Sorry for making it so long, I didn't know how to get it shorter.
Plz guys, help me out, I love her too much and I would hate myself for the rest of my life if my decision to get her spayed will cost her life
She produced a drop of two, but in the next few hours went back to normal and did normal pee puddles too. Since then, I have noticed she strains occasionally, like one time in a week and then goes back to normal. Everything else is fine.
I took her to my local vet, not the one who spayed her as he's 12 hours away in a different city. We did xrays and nothing showed up. I gave him a sample too to test for UTI, and it came back positive. The vet said severe UTI and also said there was too much sediment, so he said increase water intake.
He gave her an antibiotic via injection, the name was really weird like cef+sul 0.2 ml and said he didn't want to start oral antibiotics as they would cause an upset tummy, and gave me vitamin c for rabbits, hamster, chinchillas. He also said that he feels the spay has gone wrong, because when he palpated her, he felt something like adhesions from the left over uterine stump.
Now even I know that he's wrong about not starting oral antibiotics because if the UTI is severe, then meds should be started asap and not just Vitamin C. I called the one who did her spay and he told me to give the enrofloxacin 15mg left from when she was spayed, 1ml for 5 days.
Should I start the enrofloxacin? And for how many days? Because I feel 5 days won't be enough for a severe UTI.
Also, about the adhesions, could that be causing the urine issues? Because I find it kinda weird that she strains at a fixed time once a week and then is perfectly normal for the rest of the week.
Could the adhesions become life threatening? I have read so many horror stories about adhesions to the bowels and how they cause recurring bouts of stasis until it finally causes bloat and takes the bun. But she has never had a stasis bout. I also read that trying to fix the adhesions through another surgery would only cause much worse adhesions so it seems like an awful Catch 22.
If there are adhesions, can the symptoms be managed and the bun has a fair quality of life for the rest of its life?
Sorry for making it so long, I didn't know how to get it shorter.
Plz guys, help me out, I love her too much and I would hate myself for the rest of my life if my decision to get her spayed will cost her life