Post by chlerbie on Jul 1, 2014 15:13:51 GMT
I have a 5 year old mini-dachshund/chihuahua mix. We were on vacation for 8 days, during which time she stayed at a neighbor's home, whom she loves, and who also has 2 dogs. On the day we came back, she said that Keigan had refused dinner. When we arrived, she was happy to see us, but obviously wasn't feeling well. However in the morning, she was her same bouncy self and did well with eating for the next two days. Then she started getting lethargic and refusing to eat much, except for her soft food. This went off and on for a couple of days--and it seemed in the evenings she would perk up and then act starving, though she wasn't eating as well as she normally did--though still begging for treats and dinner scraps. I gave her some of an older brand of food that she used to eat and she GOBBLED it up like she was starving.
We took her to the vet last week. She has been Lyme positive since we've had her. (She was found in the woods.) The vet did a test on her Lyme levels as well as for two other tick diseases, which just showed that she still had Lyme, but it wasn't advanced at all in her blood levels. They did a heartworm test. She wondered if she had lingering depression from us being gone on vacation and gave us tips on how to get her back to being more interested in her hard food--that perhaps she had eaten some of the other dogs food and had "gone off" hers a bit now. We brought her home from the vet and she was super perky, gobbled her food, etc. Then the next day, lethargic again. We had to get a urine sample to bring back for a UTI. When the UTI came back negative, the other vet who works at the practice called, as it was the other vets day off. She said she wanted to do ANOTHER Lyme test--a more extensive one. Or she could guess that it was other sort of bacterial infection and start her on antibiotics. We decided to try the antibiotics and she said in 24-48 hours, we should notice a difference. At around the 36 hour marks, she seemed like her old self. She went outside and was running around and playing with another dog. She came in the house and was playing and wrestling with us. Then she woke up yesterday and was lethargic again. Until the early evening and then she perked right up, at her dinner and was her old self again. We had friends over and she was over the moon giddy to see them and running all around. She seems OK this morning, and ate some rice with her antibiotics. I'm hoping that she might just need the full run of the antibiotics, as it's now been just 4 days of the 7 day supply that she has.
I've looked up the symptoms of Lyme disease in dogs online and she doesn't seem to have any. The girl is a wimp, and if she was in pain, I feel like she'd be letting us know. And while she doesn't always eat all of her hard food now, she's not refusing food totally. Getting the blood for the first Lyme test was incredibly traumatic for her and our regular vet didn't say anything about further testing her after she did the first one. I feel like something is wrong, but just don't think it's Lyme--but I'm not a vet.
We took her to the vet last week. She has been Lyme positive since we've had her. (She was found in the woods.) The vet did a test on her Lyme levels as well as for two other tick diseases, which just showed that she still had Lyme, but it wasn't advanced at all in her blood levels. They did a heartworm test. She wondered if she had lingering depression from us being gone on vacation and gave us tips on how to get her back to being more interested in her hard food--that perhaps she had eaten some of the other dogs food and had "gone off" hers a bit now. We brought her home from the vet and she was super perky, gobbled her food, etc. Then the next day, lethargic again. We had to get a urine sample to bring back for a UTI. When the UTI came back negative, the other vet who works at the practice called, as it was the other vets day off. She said she wanted to do ANOTHER Lyme test--a more extensive one. Or she could guess that it was other sort of bacterial infection and start her on antibiotics. We decided to try the antibiotics and she said in 24-48 hours, we should notice a difference. At around the 36 hour marks, she seemed like her old self. She went outside and was running around and playing with another dog. She came in the house and was playing and wrestling with us. Then she woke up yesterday and was lethargic again. Until the early evening and then she perked right up, at her dinner and was her old self again. We had friends over and she was over the moon giddy to see them and running all around. She seems OK this morning, and ate some rice with her antibiotics. I'm hoping that she might just need the full run of the antibiotics, as it's now been just 4 days of the 7 day supply that she has.
I've looked up the symptoms of Lyme disease in dogs online and she doesn't seem to have any. The girl is a wimp, and if she was in pain, I feel like she'd be letting us know. And while she doesn't always eat all of her hard food now, she's not refusing food totally. Getting the blood for the first Lyme test was incredibly traumatic for her and our regular vet didn't say anything about further testing her after she did the first one. I feel like something is wrong, but just don't think it's Lyme--but I'm not a vet.
