Okay, so the veterinarian called this afternoon, and my head is spinning. After talking to the other veterinarians, they concluded they hadn't treated, or heard of, a dog with Diabetes Insipidus reacting like Blomma on the medication. Either dogs reacts to the medication, or they don't, not just partly like Blomma.
They agreed it looks like she reacts more to the morning medication dose, than the other doses, but at the same time feels that the 3/4 pills which she gets now, should be her maximum dose. They're now wondering if she perhaps doesn't have Diabetes Insipidus after all!,
And they want to test her to see if she have hidden Addison's! I thought they had sort of tested that when they tested her for Cushings, because they mentioned kortisol levels, but it turns out she didn't have an ACTH test, without some dexamethasomething test, which only shows if they have Cushings. Unlike the ACTH test, which can show if they have either Cushings, or Addisons.
Like with Cushings, Blomma doesn't have any of the other signs of Addison's, other than drinking, and peeing, too much. But when the veterinarian asked what I wanted to do, I of course wanted them to check Blomma for Addison's. They had a time already tomorrow, early afternoon.
But the veterinarian also wanted me to do a bit different 12 hours water deprivation test.
Remove the water at 18 o'clock (which I did).
Let her out for a pee around the same time (we came home from the daily long walk a little before 18).
Let her out for a last pee as close to before I'm going to bed as possible (this is the new thing), doing it around her last medicine dose at 01 o'clock was okay.
Getting up, and collecting a pee sample to take with me to the veterinarian, at 06 o'clock!
Then she can get water again, and breakfast at 08, but after that, nothing more to eat except the medicine at 09, before going to the veterinarian early afternoon.
Oh, and it's Tuesday tomorrow, so it's also time for me to do the weekly food shopping early in the morning due to the Coronavirus. And we had written a bit larger shopping list than usual. Mum has offered to give them breakfast, and give Blomma her medicine, if I'm not home in time for those things. But it's easy giving Blomma her pills, you just open her mouth, drop the 3/4 pills down into it, and she swallows.
Mum is less confident about having to give Jonna some eye-salve in her left eye. I haven't told you all, last week I also later had to call, and get an appointment to Jonna, because she'd managed to get some junk into her left eye.
So last Friday morning, after euthanising Berta, I took her out to my dad in the car park, and he drove home with her. I went back in, and talked to the veterinarian about Blomma's latest pee sample result. Then I was allowed to continue to wait in the same room, for another veterinarian to come less than an hour later to look at Jonna's eye.
And I was sent home with eye-salve to give Jonna 3 times per day, for 10 days. To make it easier, I chose to give her eye medicine at the same 3 times per day as Blomma's medicine. Which is now making mum worried, because even though Jonna is as sweet, and nice as any dog could be, her squeeze-eye-shut-muscles is in excellent shape.
At least I was able to cancel Beata's appointment to check up on the limping she suddenly developed on a walk last week, because as soon as I had made the call, she stopped limping. But I really feel that it is a bit much on my animal front at the moment. I'm just waiting for something to happen to Cilla the moggy as well.
And what if Blomma doesn't have hidden Addison's either, then what?
If anyone have had the energy to read all the way to the end, I can only offer these two photos I took of my bitches waiting at the veterinarian clinic, as a thank you for taking the time.
Not really stressed by being at the veterinarian clinic (Blomma at the front, Beata at the back, Jonna to the right) :
Still not stressed, even though I was getting us ready to leave (Jonna, Beata, and Blomma) :
and other tribulations too but goodness me your dogs are absolutely beautiful!! I hadn't realised what an impact 3 of them together might make I hope that they are soon 'sorted' and that whatever challenge Blomma is sending you is one that you and the vets can identify asap. Lovely, lovely doggos
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Thanks for the update FL, you’re doing fantastic work. Just wondering how you explain to Blomma that she mustn’t pee for 12 hours ?. I did laugh (sorry) at her sitting in the tray, bless her! The photo is gorgeous, they are such darlings ?.I had intended to write an update, but it's been a lot (I'm tired of 2020, Jonna isn't well - fortunately she actually seems better again), however Blomma did yet another no water for 12 hours test on Tuesday, and I talked to the veterinarian about the results on Wednesday.
She's now on two medicine doses per day, instead of three, and her urine's dilution value have gone down from 1,018 to 1,013. I'm happy that it's still with only one zero, which is much better than her first three double zero results, but on other hand it isn't a normal dilution value between 1,025 to 1,030.
We've also had 3 indoor accidents. But nobody saw them happen, so I don't know if it was Blomma, and caused by the Diabetes Insipidus, or either Blomma, or Beata, caused by that Jonna was ill. Or Jonna, because she was ill, or Cilla the moggy, because who knows - she's a cat.
Since two doses per day is the recommended dose for dogs on this medicine, the dilution value isn't alarmingly bad, Blomma seems to be her usual happy self, and also Jonna seems to be better again, we've decided to not do anything next week, without hopefully things will get a chance to calm down a little, and we have an appointment next next week the 17 November.
Hopefully both Blomma, and Jonna, will continue to be okay, there will have been no more accidents indoors during this time, and then they want to both do a new C-Reactive Protein test on Jonna, and for Blomma to arrive without having had any water for 12 hours, but also without having peed, because they first want to look at her bladder (with ultrasound I presume), and then they want to collect a pee sample.
They want to check so that she doesn't have a bladder stone, and then do the usual dilution value test on the pee sample.
And decide about how to continue with Blomma's Insipidus treatment after that. Meanwhile I'm continuing to collect, and measure pee samples. Although lately I haven't been quite as diligent every day, my timing with the container have also been a little off, Blomma stepped in the container once, and made the pee sample flow out...
She's also developed a habit of simply sitting down on the container. Like a proper sit down. Then she gets up wondering if that was good enough, am I happy with that?
And I have to tell her that she needs to pee in the container as well, sitting on it doesn't count.
Of course the other two which doesn't necessarily have to pee in their containers doesn't do that, only the one who really needs to pee in her container.
**Sigh**
Blomma, Jonna, and Beata:
Biggest compliment I ever had was from my vet's wife. I was collecting an injection for my mare to stop her holding to an accidental service. She told me that they had very few clients they would trust with such an injection. I felt really honored
They're such beautiful girls.
I'm wondering, do their coats take a lot of time to groom and look after with all the fluff?
I'm afraid I also had a little giggle at the sitting-on-but-not-peeing-in the container. Bless her. They are very obliging to do so well the rest of the time.
I'm sorry you're not quite their with the medication and having to spend so much time at the vets lately, it must be very stressful
