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My beloved 10 year old dog has today been diagnosed with congestive heart failure and fluid on lungs. She was like a puppy until the Sunday before last , she ran upstairs and had a partial collapse, since having 3 more.

We are trialling medications for the heart and fluid and crossing our fingers.

Vet said she couldn’t give a likely time frame but it would be the thing she is PTS for 😢.

It’s all been a blur anyone got any positive stories or advice ? I’d really like her to hopefully be with us for Christmas. She is probably my favourite person and life without her will be hard.
 
The lady who owns the yard has a 6 year old norfolk terrier diagnosed with exactly the same thing. She has medication, some days she is full of beans and some days exhausted. She is just taking her chances with her and enjoying every moment she has left. She is not in pain and she was zooming last night so she still has her moments.
Im so sorry OP I would just think I would enjoy the time we have left. Fingers crossed the medication works ❤️
 
Sorry to hear that OP. Some dogs can do well for a while, and for others it may be days/weeks. It's very hard to say. Monitoring their respiratory rate at rest/sleeping can be a good indicator for your vet on how well they are doing. It should be less than 30 breaths per minute. I would take each day as it comes and enjoy the rest of the time you have left ❤️
 
A good few years ago now my six year old border collie was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and prescribed vetmedin, prednidale and frusecare which stabilised his condition for a short period.

I recall being told that with CHF that once they decompensate, their prognosis becomes much more grave. My dog had a persistent cough.

Usually, dogs with CHF had a heart defect or problem long before they ever showed symptoms but their bodies (amazing works of engineering that they are) have compensated for the defect. Once a dog decompensates for whatever reason (can no longer cope with the defect) they usually present in crisis and it can come on quite suddenly.

Some dogs appear to cope for many years and others deteriorate rapidly.

Please try to enjoy every day and I hope you have your lovely dog for a long time to come.
 
motherof2beasts! said:
My beloved 10 year old dog has today been diagnosed with congestive heart failure and fluid on lungs. She was like a puppy until the Sunday before last , she ran upstairs and had a partial collapse, since having 3 more.

We are trialling medications for the heart and fluid and crossing our fingers.

Vet said she couldn’t give a likely time frame but it would be the thing she is PTS for 😢.

It’s all been a blur anyone got any positive stories or advice ? I’d really like her to hopefully be with us for Christmas. She is probably my favourite person and life without her will be hard.
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I’m so sorry to hear this. Having gone through something similar recently I offer you nothing but sympathy and hugs xx
 
So sorry to read this OP. My friends Collie had heart failure for a couple of years, on a range of medication, he passed last weekend just before his 13th birthday. He went in his sleep with her at his side.

I really hope you get a lot longer and the drugs start to help.

xx
 
My little dog (not the one I have now!) was diagnosed after he collapsed out running with me one day, up until that day he had been absolutely fine. Ran most days with me, was very active and playful. He was 9 years when diagnosed.
Once we knew and got him onto the medication, I can’t think of the name of it now. Something for his heart and something for the fluid, he had a further very happy few years. Sometimes the meds needed adjusting a bit. The tell tale sign was he’d start coughing a bit as the fluid started to build up again but this wasn’t a regular thing and we were able to keep op top of it fairly well.
I did stop the running! But he happily did long walks with no bother.
It was what got him eventually but I have lots of happy memories of him and photos of him out and about from our current house and he was diagnosed way before we moved here.
It’s not great news of course but It’s manageable and not as terrifying as it first sounds.
 
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