mrsh2010
Well-Known Member
Basically my story goes like this:
my boy has been ill for over 10 weeks now, started with a discharge from the nose (one nostril), antibiotics worked but 5 days after finishing the ten day course it came back, this time with an awful smell, put him on a second course which didn't clear it so he went in for a sinus flush and xrays - they checked his teeth and found nothing - hence assuming sinusitis, three days of flushing and still it wasn't clearing so they up him onto a vet only administrate antibiotic for 5 days, of which with the continuation of the sinus flush cleared the sinus (scope and xrays confirmed) and he came home.
Less than a week later it came back and he went down hill very fast, within 24hours he looked so ill and fed up - I thought that was the end, but my vet managed to get us rushed to The Royal Veterinary College in London for a CT scan, where they found an infection above the very last upper tooth, it was so high up it didn't show on the xrays, which they managed to pull out, and came home on more antibiotics of which he after a week looked the best I've ever seen him, but since then he's gone down hill again.
I had the vet out yesterday because he was still having a snotty nose, I was advised it was likely for him to have discharge for a few weeks after the surgery, so didn't rush to get my vet out. However my vet reckons the packing has fallen out the gum, and that he's got to go back in for a sinus flush to see if the fluid comes out just his nose (as normal) or whether it comes out the mouth as well, meaning the hole between where the infected tooth was and the sinus hasn't healed.
They've said that they will repack the gum to allow it to heal, but due to the fact it is his very last tooth he had out, the likelihood is the packing will keep falling out as it has nothing to stick between and therefore the likelihood is the infection will keep reoccuring, in which case I will have to make "the decision".
I've only just found threads on here of people that have been through the same thing, so looking for some advise and people to talk too, who understand what I'm going through.
Sorry to rabble on.
my boy has been ill for over 10 weeks now, started with a discharge from the nose (one nostril), antibiotics worked but 5 days after finishing the ten day course it came back, this time with an awful smell, put him on a second course which didn't clear it so he went in for a sinus flush and xrays - they checked his teeth and found nothing - hence assuming sinusitis, three days of flushing and still it wasn't clearing so they up him onto a vet only administrate antibiotic for 5 days, of which with the continuation of the sinus flush cleared the sinus (scope and xrays confirmed) and he came home.
Less than a week later it came back and he went down hill very fast, within 24hours he looked so ill and fed up - I thought that was the end, but my vet managed to get us rushed to The Royal Veterinary College in London for a CT scan, where they found an infection above the very last upper tooth, it was so high up it didn't show on the xrays, which they managed to pull out, and came home on more antibiotics of which he after a week looked the best I've ever seen him, but since then he's gone down hill again.
I had the vet out yesterday because he was still having a snotty nose, I was advised it was likely for him to have discharge for a few weeks after the surgery, so didn't rush to get my vet out. However my vet reckons the packing has fallen out the gum, and that he's got to go back in for a sinus flush to see if the fluid comes out just his nose (as normal) or whether it comes out the mouth as well, meaning the hole between where the infected tooth was and the sinus hasn't healed.
They've said that they will repack the gum to allow it to heal, but due to the fact it is his very last tooth he had out, the likelihood is the packing will keep falling out as it has nothing to stick between and therefore the likelihood is the infection will keep reoccuring, in which case I will have to make "the decision".
I've only just found threads on here of people that have been through the same thing, so looking for some advise and people to talk too, who understand what I'm going through.
Sorry to rabble on.
but after a lengthy discussion last night I feel my vets have a lot to answer for, and to say the least a lengthy letter has currently been drafted, and once it's been read and tweaked by this very kind lady, it shall be being sent to my vets.
